"mercuryfoam;c-17626227" wrote:
@_sims_Yimi @ThePlumbob
If you're worried about storage space, you can put your pictures on a 3rd party image hosting site and have your WP blog pluck images from there via code like how we do on the forums. That way you use zero WP space and still have quality pictures on your blog.
@mercuryfoam I know you can do that in theory, but most of the image hosting sites I'm aware of won't keep the images indefinitely - all I have to do is go look at my old legacy thread, half the old imgur embeds that I used as chapter teasers are gone. So I don't really want to rely on those, because I don't trust them longterm.
I'm currently at around 24% of my WP storage, but that's keeping in mind I already have a completed legacy's worth of pictures on my site :D The Blackwell Chronicles have only taken around 4% so far I think. So still ways off running out, I hope :)
I don't think there's a visually noticeable difference between jpg and png, but the file size difference is crazy! At work we have a rule that no images that go on the website should be over 150 KB (to optimise load times), so I think I have that ingrained in me now - I try not to put anything over 200 KB on my blog (which is why mostly I just convert to jpg, because that makes the biggest difference, but if I still think the file size is too big and I can be bothered on the particular day, I will resize).
Edit: Making the picture slightly smaller doesn't really reduce quality, because your WP template already shows the picture as smaller anyway. For instance for my template, I know that the reader will never be looking at an image at a bigger resolution that around 800 pixels wide, so there's really not a need for it to be more than, say 1000 pixels wide. Sure, in theory someone could right click and go view an image in full screen in a separate tab, but I doubt anyone does that. So really, it would be a good idea to resize them all before I upload, I just can't be bothered.
(Sorry for going on and on about something as boring as image size. I can't help it - I do website updates as a part of my job every day, so file size is something I think about haha)