konfused Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I have several of Larry's books but this does not directly relate to any of them. I hope that is OK I teach web design to beginners and would like to recommend a free, stand-alone image optimiser to my students . I tried downloading one from the internet and my computer was infected very badly with the "mysearchdial.com" search bar. It took me a whole day using my anti-virus program and three anti-malware programs to get rid of this pest. I am now very wary of trying other free programs for resizing and compressing images for web sites. Please would you recommend a bug free program. "Image Resizer" has been recommended, can you advise me if that is safe? Best wishes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 No problems in posting this. I don't personally know of anything I'd recommend, but you might get more input from others if you indicated a required operating system to be supported by the app in question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HartleySan Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 You might want to check out the following page by Google: https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/OptimizeImages You may have to run some of the programs from the command line, but they're pretty straightforward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konfused Posted March 22, 2014 Author Share Posted March 22, 2014 Thank you Larry and HartleySan, 95% of my students use Windows but I also need to advise the 5% who use Macs. I tried the link provided by HartleySan but I think the command line approach is too daunting for my absolute beginners classes. I will probably have to risk downloading "Image Resizer" into an old computer so that my other machines won't be infected. Best wishes Konfused Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HartleySan Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Personally, I would learn how to use a Windows command line tool and a Mac command line tool, and then walk your students through how to use both. If you take them through step-by-step, I don't think it'd be that scary, and they will enjoy getting the knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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