How to send your content to DezigningWomen

How to send your content

Your Text

To have the text that you want on your pages "Site Ready," you will need to save them as text-only. All word processors, including Wordpad, & Notepad, offer this function, but you will need to specify that you want the file to be saved in this format. Sometimes, this format will be listed as "ascii" or "ascii text."

Please note that the following formats and their extensions are not equivalent to text-only:

File Format Extension
Rich Text Format .rtf
PostScript .ps
Encapsulated PostScript .eps
Adobe Acrobat .pdf
WordPerfect .wpd
Microsoft Word .doc

All of these file types will require format conversion before they are usable in HTML documents.
If you have a document with formatting in place that you would like to use, we suggest that you send it to us in formatted version (.doc), then also send it as text-only (ascii). This way, we can see where you want special formatting on the.doc copy, and we can simply use the proper tags for HTML on the text-only copy of the file.

Your Images

Formats used for images are somewhat more flexible than text formats. The two primary formats used for web page images are:
File Format Extension

CompuServe GIF .gif
JPEG .jpg

In addition to these two standards, there are also two special types of CompuServe GIF formats that are usable: GIF 89 ("Transparent") and GIF 87a ("Animated").

Some other image file types can be viewed with the addition of special "plug-ins" to the readers' browsers, but we do not advise using file types other than those listed above unless you are producing your site for a specific audience and know without doubt that the site's users will all have the necessary plug-ins.

The following file types will require conversion before they are usable in your site: File Format Extension

Bitmap .bmp
TIFF .tif
Encapsulated PostScript .eps
Adobe Illustrator .ai
Corel Draw .cdr

Sending zip files
If there are many text files, images files, and/or large images, you may need to zip them, instead of attaching them.

How to scan & zip pictures

As far as the process goes:
1. Scan all of the pictures in at 100 dpi
2. Open WinZip
3. Select "File" Toolbar, and under that choose "New Archive" (this New Archive will be the ***.zip file that will be sent, so it's important to remember where it is on the computer)
4. Name the New Archive (I think it automatically gets a .zip extension)
5. Click "OK"
6. A dialogue box will appear, asking you what files you want to add to the New Archive. Select each picture and then click "Add." As you select each picture and click "Add," you will go back to a listing of the contents of the New Archive, which includes a running total of the size of the New Archive. To add additional pictures, simply click on "Add" in this dialog box and you will go back to the dialogue box that appeared at the beginning of this Step 6.
(Note that, if you want to select multiple pictures and they're located in the same folder, you can do so by holding down the "Ctrl" key when you click on each individual picture name that appears in the dialog box. This avoids the need to continue to go through the cycle of adding pictures one-by-one)
7. When all pictures to be included in the New Archive have been added, choose the "File" toolbar and select "Close Archive." The New Archive has now been created and can be modified (pictures added or deleted) or sent.
8. To send the New Archive, there is a selection under "File" in WinZip that allows you to "Send Archive" -- however, I didn't necessarily have as much luck with that as I did closing completely out of WinZip and then simply going into my e-mail management software (for me it is Outlook Express), creating a new e-mail to you, and attaching the New Archive as an attachment to the e-mail, as you would any attachment.