image size for your website

[Charliedelta]

I am about to open my own website for my photography business.

I am wondering what is the right resolution for the pictures I am going to load in there. I don't want to go too low to avoid them looking bad, or going to high to avoid delayed loading times. Which resolution/file size do you guys use? Do you do it from the web module in lightroom?

Thanks,

 

[tirediron]

That's all I do; create my galleries using Lightroom's web module. They're typically in the 800ishx600ish range and <100Kb.

 

[Big Mike]

The size should be, in some part, determined by the layout of your site. If the images will appear in some sort of frame, or with side bar/menu etc, then you don't need full screen width.

Consider that a normal monitor is somewhere around/over 1000 pixels wide, a good image size on a screen might be 800 pixels wide.

Also remember that besides the size of an image, the jpeg compression will determine how large the file is. When saving a jpeg you can set the compression high (quality low) and it will significantly reduce the file size, making it easier to load. You will loose some quality eventually so find your happy compromise.