1. Ideas. If you have any suggestions on the overall design & structure, please let me know. Let me know if there are any sites you think we could link to from the “links” page. What do you think we should include in the general section of the site?

2. Your information. If I have not already posted it on your page, please provide me with contact information including your email address. What would you like me to post on your section of the site? Each of you will have a webpage at www.abweperu.org/yourlastname. I can create picture galleries, a collection of prayer letters, contact information, a history of your work in Peru, etc. It’s up to you! One caveat. :-) It takes time to create all of these wonderful things. It may be a while before I am able to create everyone’s pages.

Suggested action:

1. Send me your contact info.

2. Write the text for your introductory homepage. E.g. “We are Jonathan and Angela Stone …” Include contact information. Please make sure I am on your list to receive your prayer letters (jastone@abweperu.org) and let me know if you would like them posted on your page.

3. Send me a current picture of your family (if there is none on your page).

4. Plan the layout of your section of the site.

Guidelines for submitting images, files, etc.:

You can email media to me at jastone@abweperu.org. I now have a high speed connection at home.

When you send me an image send me the largest / best quality image you will need on the site. I can create smaller versions to use as thumbnails, embed in a body of text, etc.

If you understand image editing and are able to prepare images for the web, please follow these guidelines:

1. The general standards for image size on our site are:

Download for print – If you decide you would like to make the highest quality image availble for people to download (if they plan to have it printed on photo paper by a photo store) go ahead and save it at the native size. Remember that these images may be 3-4 MB in size. Don't do this very often. Make sure you have a smaller version available as an alternative. (See www.abweperu.org/jastone/christmascard.htm.)

XLarge - 1024x768 pixels (XGA) This is the highest resolution people will need if they intend to display the image full screen or project it. Not everyone will benefit from this high a resolution since many projectors are SVGA and many people still have their monitors set at SVGA (see "Large").

Large - 800x600 (SVGA) many people use higher resolution, but this is probably a good standard for the largest image you would want to post (see www.abweperu.org/christmas2).

Medium – 400 pixels wide. This is a good standard for an image gallery (see www.abweperu.org/jastone/florida). It is large enough for people to see all of the detail, but saves on filesize and download time.

Small – 200 pixels wide. A good size for images in the body of an article. You could go as large as 300 px wide or as small as 100 px (see www.abweperu.org/pc).

Thumbnail – 110 pixels wide. Good size for an image of the ministry/missionary or any other image in the left navigation bar (i.e. within an individual missionary’s pages). (See www.abweperu.org/dstone).

2. File size

In building web pages it is very important to keep each page to the smallest file size possible. Otherwise, if you have a dialup connection like I do at home, it takes forever to load each page. Generally, JPEG is the best format for images on the web. If your image editing program (Photoshop, Fireworks, etc.) allows you to optimize your image when you save it, bring down the quality of the JPEG as far as possible while maintaining an acceptable appearance. The two ways to reduce file size are: 1) make the image smaller - fewer pixels across, 2) lower the quality of the JPEG.