- You may wish to have a report and
photograph of a Unit event featured on the Suffolk ACF
site, in the 'Suffolk Cadet' or 'Britannia and Castle'
magazines.
Any clear
images, in focus, are welcome, sent on disc via County HQ or by e-mail
to Suffolk
ACF Webmaster.
Before you take
the photograph ensure the background is simple, avoiding
half heads, wall-lights, windows and reflections.
Just ask the subjects to move and close any curtains!
Please avoid
sending any of those ghastly hand-shaking photographs !
Head and shoulders and the cup or award, held high, is
what is needed.
Do straighten ties
that are loose or 5 sheets in the wind to starboard!
The Webmaster, once a crew member on the SS Funing bound
for the China Sea out of Melbourne, reckons he knows his
stuff !
The ideal
photograph image is 60 to 70 dpi,
measuring no more than 999 pixels wide or 555
pixels high.
Please ensure the
photograph is a jpg, no larger than 60Kb
and do not Zip compress.
A 500Kb file is fine for a large wall poster but by
e-mail takes ages for my PC to download!
Trim images of unnecessary part
bodies, backs of heads, fat bottoms, portaloos and stray hands!
Please, no red-eye photographs!
If you are unable
to compress the jpg picture files please put them on a
floppy disc or CD and post it to County HQ
!
Include a short
description, the date it was taken, the full name of the photographer and the location.
Include
the vital Who?
Especially
essential are the FULL names of the
main characters, listed left to right, front
row first and give clues for a casual group. Please,
no 'Mr', definitely no initials and verboten are ANY
military abbreviations as not ever reader/surfer is
familiar with our closeted world!
eg, using my Regimental Journal guidelines:
Front Row: Sergeant Eddie 'Taff' Williams MBE,
Corporal Dave Andrews PhD, Lance Corporal Brian Soper
MM GC (in blazer)
Back row: Colonel Miles Cornell (in baseball
cap), Major James Brown BA (eating hamburger);
General Paul Reed (shirtless and surfing on roof of
Land Rover)
Send text in normal
case in black within the
body of the e-mail, leaving me to do the
layout, formatting, colours, font and typeface as it’s
a nause having to convert it all !
When
inserted directly into the body of the e-mail, the text
is not only instantly readable but 'site-ready'. eg 233
kb reduced to a mere 24 kb. It gets sent by you and
received by me in a tenth of the time! Also, it cannot
contain a virus or trojan.
Please do not
send text ALL IN UPPER CASE as I have to laboriously
convert it to sentence case.
You won't see road signs in upper case or it would
make them hard to read !
PLEASE DO NOT
INCLUDE GRAPHICS WITHIN AN ATTACHED DOCUMENT as I have to
extract them ! Any graphics needed to illustrate a
forthcoming event are best sent as attachments, in
gif format, measuring no more than 999
pixels wide or 555 pixels high.
Please do NOT
include photographs within a Word document or (as has
occurred, within an Excel Spreadsheet, pdf or Powerpoint
file!)
Extracting them is a nightmare!
An example is a
Word document received, 880 kb in size with a download
time of 44 sec, it was converted to a site document of
50 kb (with the graphics taking up 376 kb, a total of
426 kb).
After 134 minutes of work, against the clock, the final
site page was only 15 kb in size (with the graphics
taking up 110 kb) and took just 25 sec to download!
All it needed was the despatch of the graphics and
the text sent in normal case within the body of the
e-mail and I could have done the job in 10 minutes !
One clown sent me a 6 Megabyte Powerpoint file
by e-mail and it took 4 hours to download.
The one photograph, a list of names and 2 graphics
within only totalled 400 Kilobytes and could have been
received in minutes!
Another clown sent me a 6 Megabyte file by e-mail and it took hours to
download.
The one photograph of 4.5 Mb has been condensed to 50 Kb ! The press only
require about a 250 Kb file.
Do tell me how you
wish your name to appear as a credit.
Finally, a 2005
gem from my eldest sister: 'I have just completed a one
term digital photography class so now can turn on the
camera, download images, crop, resize and paint out
wrinkles, as well as being able to email. Most of
the class were elderly and therefore a bit wrinkly!'
Thanks.
Major
JL Raybould TD,
Webmaster Suffolk ACF
TA Centre, Yarmouth Road, IPSWICH,
Suffolk, IP1 4BH. Tel 01473 252562.
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