An increasing number of clients that we work with are utilizing some sort of CMS (Content Management Systems) on their site. One issue plaguing many of them (and many non-clients as well) is that their images are just too large for their site. Either in dimension or in file size. For example, 3000 pixels wide by 4500 pixels tall but only displaying at say… 200px by 200px – all web designers have seen this at some point. That’s not really a web “best practice”. But don’t worry, you aren’t stuck in the Land of The Lost Large Images forever!

We try to give our CMS clients a quick intro to image ideals & optimization when we turn a CMS or even E-commerce site over to them, but it’s not always easy to pick up. So I’m going to give an explanation that you can look back at whenever you need to (and modify/expand on what some of you may have gotten in our documentation packet). And not only that, but show some FREE tools that you can use!
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