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The full-size images are used by the RSS feed
Authored by: llahsram on Nov 27, '06 09:58:43AM

The reason the full-size images are there is because the RSS feed that iWeb creates for blogs is an iPhoto-compatible "photocast". When you view the RSS feed for your blog, you'll see links to the full-size images (along with the file size of the image), and if you enter the RSS feed URL into iPhoto's "subscribe to photocast" option, you'll get the full-size images downloaded to iPhoto.

Whether this apparently undocumented feature is useful is debatable, but that's why those images are there. You can delete them, and the site will work fine, but your RSS feed will have broken links.



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The full-size images are used by the RSS feed
Authored by: jonathan.dann on Nov 28, '06 05:04:19AM

Yes, you're correct, apologies to all those photocasters out there.

I have found though, if you still want to reduce the size, and don't use photocasting, then you delete the large sizes. You can then duplicate the small ones and rename the duplicates what the large ones were called. This at least gives the RSS something to link to, whilst keeping the site size small.



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