FAQs, Tips and Tricks

• What size images should I put on my website?

  Maybe you took a photo on your mobile phone or your have some files from Creative Services and you want to put them on your website. Here are the sizes recommended for doing so.

  • Horizontal photos: no larger than 960px x 680px at 72 dpi
  • Vertical photos: no larger than 680px x 960px at 72 dpi
  • Banners: no larger than 1600px x 667px at 72 dpi

   

  Images larger than this have large file sizes.    Large file sizes means a long time to load.     A long time to load makes unhappy users who may leave your page out of frustration.

   

• Does it really matter where I upload it to?

  YES!

  Good file management makes your life easier because

  • you don't have to sort through a cluttered site to find your most frequently used pages and
  • you can find items more easily when files are organized.

   

• An easy way to upload your file to exactly the right place is to...
  1. Open a file in the same folder WHERE you want your new file to live
  2. Click to add the file.

   

• Does it really matter how I name my files?

  YES! (again)

  Suppose you want a photo of a specific faculty member or event. If you named it accordingly, it's easy to search and find. However, if you named the file something irrelevant, you can't tell what it is unless you take the time to open it.

  

  Are these photos of the new faculty or of the recruitment event?

   

• My news article isn't showing up on the news feed
  1. Open the article
  2. Go to the "Configure" tab at the top of your edit pop-up
  3. Make sure the "Content Type" says news article; if not, assign the correct content type

   

• Can I use the poster from Creative Services on my website?

  NO!

  Posters are made for print, not the web. Do not use these files on your website. Why? Because...

  • the files are much too big and will cause your page to load slowly (this annoys users and wrecks your search engine rankings)
  • posters have far too much writing on the image which makes them not ADA compliant
    
    Get more info on Federal ADA compliance
    
    
  • all that info is wasted because search engines like Google or Yahoo can't read your poster image
    • search engines won't show internet users your page even if they search those exact terms
    • search engines WILL find your page if you write the info directly on the webpage