Image Utility on Blogs

People love images. In sites and blogs, it's a good way of supporting what you write and letting your readers have a clearer view of what you are writing about by providing visual presentations.

But how do you do the proper way of implementing these images on screen? Let me give out some points.

Eye Movement

Did you know that the natural path the eye does when scanning is from left to right, up to down? I learned that from my advertising class back in school. People tend to start from the left to right, up to down of a page in a given instant.

Positioning/Alignment

Dependent on how the image found fit the page, really. Some images are better of being on the top-center just below the title of the page. Others are best suited to simply provide a thumbnail aligned to the left or right of the 1st paragraph.

Relativity

It's pretty simple. Do not post images of cars when you are talking about food.

reSize

Now how about the dimensions of your image of choice? It really depends.

Most blogs normally run around your page taking up around 800px in width or more. Have the image around 200-300px in width with its respective height. This way, your image won't flood the whole article. If your image is way bigger than this, then try resizing or atleast linking your image to its original file. It's like creating a thumbnail to click.

When resizing, be sure to keep proportion. Unproportional images are truly unattractive aren't they?

Number of Images

You have a lot of images you'd like to use! 20images for an article 2paragraphs long! Now that's going to be a bit troublesome. If you can, try narrowing down your choice of images. Posting too many images within the article could ruin the whole layout and make the impression that you're a noob blogger who finally discovered the way to post images online, which isn't really nice.

If you can't help but keep all those images, choose the best and include these images in your article. As for the rest, try making smaller sized thumbnails like 50x50px ones and post them at the very end of your article.

Bandwidth

Remember that when you put images on your page, they will add to the time your page can fully load. This is where having those photo-hosting sites become useful.