creating a photo website

yeah, that sounds sensible & about right. ty. it just feels frustrating, because at the moment it would be really good to have some flexibility. when you upload things to picasa (which i think is a sorta facade for google drive), the url generated includes a number which you can alter to automatically generate a new copy of the JPG; so if you change it to s200 you get a small-ish image, it's like 120kb, if it's s800 it's a reasonable document size & it's 400kb, & so on. i put things online & played around with like, too large file sizes - so say 5mb for very large images - & at the same time that they are, kinda obviously, too large, i feel like they mean that i can look at things on a really big imac monitor at school & they look good & i can see the grain, but the images are resizing (albeit slowly) if i look at them on a desktop. i've been playing with using css to set image widths or heights to a percentage, rather than a pixel #, & i like what it means for viewing a website. if it wasn't for knowing that anyone looking at a site on a cellphone would be just blitzing their dataplan i would probably settle for a slow-loading website right now. i mean it's photos, people can wait.

tbh I tend to dislike super large images on photo websites. I feel like you can't really 'see the photograph' in those cases, but just see a million little details or the grain.