Blog Limit Full

[Stuart Yendle]

It seems I have reached my size limit on my Google blog. Anyone else experienced this and what to do, google help is crap?

[journeyman]

Hi Stuart
Your blogger account lets you have 1GB of of free image storage using your Picasa account. You can buy more storage ($5 a year gets you 20GB). It makes sense to downsize your images before uploading them - I think mine is at 159MB after 5 years (about 16% used). You are also limited to the size of your "main page" - 1MB so if this is the limit you've reached you can lower the number of posts on the main page. This might be useful.

[Stuart Yendle]

I think I might just start a new blog and re-size the images before I add them. I guess I would have to re-upload every image on my blog to gain back more space. I'll be buggered if I'm paying them.

[Mike Mayberry]

Now I know why we've not seen anything written about your short trip over the weekend. :p

[Stuart Yendle]

Is it possible to transfer my blog to Wordpress or something and gain more space that way? Not all that clued up with computer jargon.

[Mike Mayberry]

Is it worth all the hassle when for the price of beer each year google will give you a 20gb allowance?

[johnb]

I do find it funny that people expect everything to be free nowadays!

[Taran Tyla]

Its only £3 for an extra 20Gig you tight git ;D

[rockall]

LOL, had to laugh at Taran's comment!.....but then I'm tight, too, sometimes stupidly so!

I've used Wordpress quite a bit and feel it's far more flexible than Blogger. Wordpress will give you 3gb storage free, so should go 3x as far at your mph.

Transferring your blog?.... apparently it can be done quite easily. Can't vouch for it myself, but you could do worse than follow this advice: http://www.howtomakemyblog.com/popular/ ... ess-guide/

You should always make a habit of reducing your image size first. It's daft in these days of 10mb cameras, people are uploading HUGE files for web display!! Of course it eats into your storage allowance! Pics for you site need to be no more than 1024 x768 pixels at 72dpi...probably not even that big! The 'pixels-is-everything' camera trend really is highly stupid in 90% of uses these days. I have a 4mp camera and make beautiful poster prints from it (but then it is an old glass Olympus lens!). REDUCE YOUR IMAGE FILE SIZES!

Great blog by the way! :)

[Stuart Yendle]

Is it worth all the hassle when for the price of beer each year google will give you a 20gb allowance?

£4.96 where you drinking? :) Not tight (well maybe a little) just not all that clued up on this internet stuff and wary when sites ask for money, especially when its dollars. All sorted now though, although still don't know how I reduce my picture size???

[johnb]

@stuart - what operating system do you use on your PC? Most windows versions now have some basic picture editting built in, and it's normally pretty straightforward to open a picture, crop it (reframe it) and to resize. You then save it as a different file in the resized version. I normally resize to 1200 pixels on the longest side which is plenty big enough for blogs.

[ArnoG]

To tweak images (but I'm not very good at it) I use the Gimp. Which is very very cool. You can do all sorts with it including resizing.
Re photos in blog, I'm on wordpress which has a bit of space but I find a pig to use for that (slow and contrived). Also got a flickr album (which is nearly full) but at the moment I just link pictures from my Facebook account as you would do on here which is by far the less faffy method I have found so far.

Cheers
A.-

[Taran Tyla]

Is it worth all the hassle when for the price of beer each year google will give you a 20gb allowance?

£4.96 where you drinking? :) Not tight (well maybe a little) just not all that clued up on this internet stuff and wary when sites ask for money, especially when its dollars. All sorted now though, although still don't know how I reduce my picture size???

£4.96 for 20 gig, I was robbed :(

[Mike Mayberry]

Is it worth all the hassle when for the price of beer each year google will give you a 20gb allowance?

£4.96 where you drinking? :) Not tight (well maybe a little) just not all that clued up on this internet stuff and wary when sites ask for money, especially when its dollars. All sorted now though, although still don't know how I reduce my picture size???

£4.96 for 20 gig, I was robbed :(

I haven't looked at the google charges but based on Eurions $5, I'm not sure that even with our economy as it is that $5 = £4.96, £3.13 would be closer :)

[Stuart Yendle]

I haven't looked at the google charges but based on Eurions $5, I'm not sure that even with our economy as it is that $5 = £4.96, £3.13 would be closer :)

It was $5 but then there are charges added on.


I used to use Microsoft Image Editor or something, which was brilliant but they have discontinued it now. I don't know where it came from when I first had my computer, but after it had a service I lost it. And yes too tight to buy a new one :)

[Mark R]

I stick my photos on Facebook, and simply link to those - does the resizing for me.

[ArnoG]

If you intend to make any money from your pictures, you may want to make sure you're aware of the rights you give Facebook when you upload pictures.
Their Ip policy is that "you grant us [facebook] a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook"

Key words being "transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free".

A.-

[Mark R]

Yes, I know. But I don't imagining they'll be getting rich out of my reduced-size weekend snaps, anytime soon.