Comp. Help

Help with Lights Competition Entry

The Christmas Lights Competition allows participants to submit details of their homes Christmas Lighting display for listing in our directory and enables our visitors to rank their display.
To participate you will need a suitable photo of your Christmas Lights Display in a ,jpg file in a size up to 500 pixes wide and no more than 500 pixels high. You also need an email address and also permision of the homeowner or tenant of the relevent home.

First you need to register  your email address and select a username. Our system with then immediately send you and email. You are then required to click the link in that email to activate your registration. This confirms a correct email address.

The registration email advice will also have your log-in details. So next you need to use those here to log-in to your account.

Once you are logged in you can click the "Suggest a Listing" Link in the top menu. Then complete the submission form and upload your image from your computer.

One you submit your details it will be reviewed by us and then approved if appropriate wherein we will email you an advice of approval.

UPLOADING IMAGES

To upload an image you need a digital image file (like the image taken by your digital camera or mobile phone), .jpg format is best. You can upload the image file from your computer hard drive or from the SD card of your camera etc, if you have a card reader slot on your computer. Otherwise get someone to email you the image.

You may need to reduce the file size of the image to upload it. The maximum image size allowed is 500 pixels x 500 pixels to enable the image to show on the page. To reduce the image size, open the image in Micosoft Office Picture Manager. where you can crop the image as well as reduce the file size and the image size.

Image file sizes function much better on the internet in small sizes for fast loading and in appropriate dimensions to suit the page space.

First right click on the image file name and then in the dropdown box select  "Open With" and then  "Micosoft Office Picture Manager "

In Micosoft Office Picture Manager you can then select "Edit Pictures" then after you crop it go to "Resize" and then "Predefined Width x Height" and select  "Web - Small (448 x 336px)"

Save the file to your hard drive using a different name then log-in and upload the new image file. Easy?