Supersite and graphic options

**Lynnzer** · 03 December 2017, 08:33 AM

I'm building a very graphic oriented site, ie one that has loads of photograph images of ladies fashions.
I am using the supersite template to build a continuous scrolling window and as thbis will load everything at once I'm wondering what to about images.

Most of them will have a pop up enlarged copy that need to be good quality.
So for instance the usual size is around the 450 pixel size with the pop-up going to 880.
If I Optimise the pictures on the page I presume it will do it to the 450 size and the pop-up will suffer quality as a result.

So should I just make the original pictures by using the 880 to start with then don't optimise them?
Perhaps to make it quicker to load, I could perhaps just put a link to each individual picture which means they won't do an auto-load on accessing the website.

**Boy** · 03 December 2017, 10:03 AM

The optimizing command reduces the pictures that are in your .web file and not those on your website. Optimizing those pictures is done upon export, so make sure that in the Utilities/Web Properties/Website dialog the "Retina (hi-def) images" is ticked if you want your pictures to look good on hi-def devices.

If you want high-quality images to show on your website, also make sure that in the Utilities/Options/View dialog the "Import at dpi specified in the image file" radio button is ticked (or otherwise the "Resize large imported photos to xxx pixels" radio button with the appropriate pixel value).

However, as you mention that you use 'loads of photographs,' this may slow down your computer (hence the "Optimize all images" command). You also mention that you're using a supersite template (which means one large page) so with 'loads of photographs' all these images need to be loaded before the browser will show the page. This may negatively affect user experience when visiting your site. So, it depends how many is 'loads of photographs'.

**gwpriester** · 03 December 2017, 12:36 PM

My experience in the past with super sites that have a lot of content is it takes a long time to load and unless this has been fixed, by the time all the content has loaded your visitor has moved on. I would go with a traditional site.