Downsize photos in iWeb?

I'm a newbie to iPhoto and iWeb. I've been importing my photos into iPhoto and then those that I want on my website I export to iWeb, or sometimes drag/drop. I've never downsized anything. Recently I read a post that this is a MUST because iWeb uploads full resolution. Now I'm worried. I checked one of my photos... Original resolution according to the info in iPhoto is 2048 x 1536 at 870 KB. The files exported from iWeb for that photo are 256 x 192 at 24 KB and 800 x 600 at 120 KB. It seems to me that iWeb is downsizing them.
I have photoshop but was really trying improve my workflow and was hoping to eliminate this step. Before I got iPhoto and iWeb I manually resized every photo for each thumbnail and each slide image. TEDIOUS.
Do I need to downsize my images or is iWeb doing it?
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dzinemkr,
It's true that iWeb will upload the original file that you drag and drop into iWeb as well as the resized images. If you want to see what images are getting uploaded by iWeb, you can do a "Publish to Folder" on your local desktop. Then open up the site folder and peek inside a folder called "Images". It is possible that you will find high resolution originals of your photos here. If they are here in this folder, then you can be sure then are being uploaded when you use "Publish to .mac" as well.
What you should do is decide (approximately if not exactly) what maximum resolution you will want your photos to be used in your iWeb pages. If you are using the Apple slideshow, then that resolution is 800x600. Then export from iPhoto using this maximum resolution and drag the resulting downscaled photos into iWeb. This ensures that the largest image iWeb will ever upload will be the 800x600 image....and the original 2048x1536 image never passes through iWeb's fingers to be uploaded as the original image.
iWeb will do some element of downscaling for things like thumbnails and such. But just limit the maximum usable resolution of your files....if you are just posting photos on a page where none of the photos will be more than 300x400....then scale all your photos in iPhoto to 300x400 and use these instead of dropping the original 2048x1536 image for iWeb to downscale for you. Does this make sense? Not only will this protect your high resolution photos from becoming available for the taking (check out your RSS feed), but it will also decrease your overall site size, site uploading times, and page downloading speeds.
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