One important skill for any Web Designer is to have knowledge about how to prepare and upload images into WordPress. It’s also a skill you will need to advise your clients on how to use and upload images to their websites.
It’s a never-ending story about how clients add images to a website! Help them.
What formats should you use, what sizes, and what other important technical details are there around images and graphics for WordPress?
Also, what do you do when clients for some inexplicable reason think that images magically just exist already on their website? Because that happens often. And when it comes to it, it shows they don’t even have proper image content for their own website.
Gave your Web Design clients the best advice
That’s when you come in to save them and share your best advice on where to get high-quality photos and graphics. Both paid and free. (Learn more in this Skill Snippet). And this is part of the reason your client will love you for it, and keep coming back for more work.
You COULD just snap a photo from your mobile phone and upload straight into WordPress. But, it’s going to turn out bad. And this is what our web design clients do sometimes.
WordPress can handle a lot. But, there is a must-use and best practice workflow you should follow to make sure your images have the right format, the right DPI, the physical size on screen, and some other nifty details you probably did not even know about.
In this video, you will learn about the following:
- How to plan using images for websites
- How WordPress image resizing works
- How to strip unwanted information from images
- Suggestions for apps to resize images for web
- How to organize images in folders in WordPress
- How to automatically resize images on upload in WordPress
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