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Publishing a Classified Ad

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List Your Business/Organisation/Club

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About iworldpeople

How It Works

All of the content on the iworldpeople community websites is created by our members. Whether you are a local business wanting an effective on line marketing solution without the expense of a web site, an organisation who'd like to have a free WebPage and get your message out to the public for free, or a neighbourhood local, all of our services are designed for you and your community. You need to be a member to create content on the site. There are three types of membership; individual, business and organisation. Once you are a member publishing to the site is simple.

  1. You've got something you want to publish, some local news, a photo, an event, a notice, an article or opinion, a "compliments to either a business or person, or a classified ad.
  2. Go to your My iworldpeople account page.
  3. Create your publication, and choose which communities you want to publish it to.
  4. Click "preview" to see what it looks like.
  5. If you don't want to publish until later, click "save". It will save to your my iworldpeople account page until you decide you want to publish it.
  6. Click "publish". Your item will automatically appear on the site.

If you decide you want to change something on the item you published, you can do this even after it has been published through your My iworldpeople account page.

If you decide you want to delete your item from the site, go to your My iworldpeople account page and hit the delete button next to your item.

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There are three types of membership you can choose from; either Individual, Business or Organisation. Membership on iworldpeople is free.

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Individual Membership

Registering
There is a simple registration form which we require you to fill in before you can publish items or post classifieds. In our registration process, you will be required to provide your name, e-mail address, and date of birth. You also will be asked to select a user name and a password, which you will use to log on to your "My iworldpeople account page" in order to publish onto the site. You will also be asked to provide a nickname, which will be the name your items are posted under. You may use your own name for this purpose, if you wish.

We will send you a confirmation email to confirm your email address as part of the registration process. We use a double opt-in registration system to ensure that it was you and no one else who made your registration. For that reason click on the web link in the email we send you.

If you haven't received a confirmation email you need to check your junk mail settings aren't blocking our emails. Our emails come from admin@iworldpeople.com, you may need to add this to your provider's address list and/or, turn off your auto delete spam setting.

Registration activation
Once you have confirmed your email address, our Site Manager will review and activate your registration. This is a manual, not an automated process. The reason our site manager does this is that iworldpeople is a community resource. We don't want people creating multiple fake registrations and multiple fake accounts. We want authentic people, businesses and organisations to post up interesting items in honesty and good faith. Therefore, when you register with the iworldpeople community in which you live, our Site Manager will validate your details and then activate your registration. When your registration is activated you will receive an email from us advising you of this.

Creating extra accounts
When you join iworldpeople as an "Individual Member" you automatically get set up with a free Personal Account which you can use to publish stuff to the site from you as an individual. You may also, however, be a small business owner, or involved in a local organisation. One of the benefits of Individual Membership is that you don't have to join again to get iworldpeople membership for your business or organisation. You can simply, using your individual membership log-in, create a business and/or organisation account, and manage them all from within the one membership.

You can create up to five accounts and not need 5 different user names and passwords!

Please note:
Members not located in New Zealand may register and the registration activation process may take a little longer, because the validation process may take a little longer.

What does Home Community mean?
This is the community (suburb) in which you live.
If you have also created an account for your business or organisation, it is the community in which your business or organisation is located.

Changing your registration details
Log in and go to your My iworldpeople page.

Click on "Edit Registration". This will take you to your Create/Edit registration page. You can change any of the details and then click submit.

To change your email address or password, you can also click on "Change email address" and "Change password" links at the top of your My iworldpeople page.

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Business Membership

Registering
There is a simple registration form which we require you to fill in before you can publish items or post classifieds. In our registration process, you will be required to provide your business name and address and e-mail address. You also will be asked to select a user name and a password, which you will use to log on to your "My iworldpeople account page" in order to publish onto the site.

We will send you a confirmation email to confirm your email address as part of the registration process. We use a double opt-in registration system to ensure that it was you and no one else who made your registration. For that reason click on the web link in the email we send you.

If you haven't received a confirmation email you need to check your junk mail settings aren't blocking our emails. Our emails come from admin@iworldpeople.com, you may need to add this to your provider's address list and/or, turn off your auto delete spam setting.

Registration activation
Once you have confirmed your email address, our Site Manager will review and activate your registration. This is a manual, not an automated process. The reason our site manager does this is that iworldpeople is a community resource. We don't want people creating multiple fake registrations and multiple fake accounts. We want authentic people, businesses and organisations to post up interesting items in honesty and good faith. Therefore, when you register your business with the iworldpeople community in which it is based, our Site Manager will validate your details and then activate your registration. When your registration is activated you will receive an email from us advising you of this.

Please note:
iworldpeople is a resource for NZ communities. If you register a business from outside of New Zealand, it is likely our Site manager will not activate your registration.

What does Home Community mean?
This is the community (suburb) in which your business is located.

Changing your registration details
Log in and go to your My iworldpeople page.

Click on "Edit Registration". This will take you to your Create/Edit registration page. You can change any of the details and then click submit.

To change your email address or password, you can also click on "Change email address" and "Change password" links on your My iworldpeople page.

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Organisation Membership

Registering
There is a simple registration form which we require you to fill in before you can publish items or post classifieds. In our registration process, you will be required to provide your organisation name and address and e-mail address. You also will be asked to select a user name and a password, which you will use to log on to your "My iworldpeople account page" in order to publish onto the site.

We will send you a confirmation email to confirm your email address as part of the registration process. We use a double opt-in registration system to ensure that it was you and no one else who made your registration. For that reason click on the web link in the email we send you.

If you haven't received a confirmation email you need to check your junk mail settings aren't blocking our emails. Our emails come from admin@iworldpeople.com, you may need to add this to your provider's address list and/or, turn off your auto delete spam setting.

Registration activation
Once you have confirmed your email address, our Site Manager will review and activate your registration. This is a manual, not an automated process. The reason our site manager does this is that iworldpeople is a community resource. We don't want people creating multiple fake registrations and multiple fake accounts. We want authentic people, businesses and organisations to post up interesting items in honesty and good faith. Therefore, when you register your organisation with the iworldpeople community in which it is based, our Site Manager will validate your details and then activate your registration. When your registration is activated you will receive an email from us advising you of this.

Please note:
iworldpeople is a resource for NZ communities. If you register an organisation from outside of New Zealand, it is likely our Site manager will not activate your registration.

What does Home Community mean?
This is the community (suburb) in which your organisation is based.

Changing your registration details
Log in and go to your My iworldpeople page.

Click on "Edit Registration". This will take you to your Create/Edit registration page. You can change any of the details and then click submit.

To change your email address or password, you can also click on "Change email address" and "Change password" links on your My iworldpeople page.

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My iworldpeople Page

What is this for?
Your My iworldpeople page is the page that gives you easy access to your registration information and account(s). This is also the page you go to if you want to create an item, save, publish or delete a previously published item.

You can access all of the iworldpeople services for your individual, organisation and business accounts from your My iworldpeople page. For example, you can:

Information on each item you have created is stored on this page, along with the status (published/offline) of that item.

What is a User Log? Your user log provides a record for you, (listed by date and time) of all items you have created and/or published on the site. It also provides a record of each time you have edited an item and created or edited your account(s).

What does Manage Ownership mean?
You can see the real benefits of using iworldpeople as an internet marketing tool for your business or organisation, because it is so inexpensive and effective. However, you don't have the time to do it justice; for example publish news or expert opinion peices, or you would prefer it if someone else could create your WebPage for you. iworldpeople employ experts who can create and publish onto the site on your behalf. They will talk to you first to gain an understanding of your business or organisation and the specific services you'd like to use. Everything they write will be sent to you first for your approval.

How does Manage Ownership work?
It is very simple.
First, sign-up with iworldpeople.
Then, email us, stating in the body of the email that you would like to investigate the "Manage Ownership" service.
One of our consultants will then contact you to discuss what you'd like to do.
When you have agreed on your iworldpeople marketing plan, our consultant will give you their iworldpeople "nickname".
Go to your My iworldpeople page and click on Manage Ownership.
Click on "Add Proxy".
Enter nickname.
Click submit.

Now, your consultant has access to your account from their My iworldpeople page and can create and publish anything you like on your behalf.

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Your Account

What does Home Community mean?
For your personal account, this is the community (suburb) in which you live. For your organisation or business account, this is the community (suburb) in which your organisation or business is based.

Selecting communities to publish to.
When you create your account, you can choose up to 4 iworldpeople communities to publish to. You can also choose to publish to your regional site.

When you create an item to publish, we will ask you which of those 4 communities you want to publish that item to. You might choose 1, or all 4, it's up to you. For example, if you are publishing on behalf of the local Plunket calling for volunteers on National collection day, you may not need to publish that to all 4 communities, just the area you are short of volunteers in.

What is a "Signature Line"?
The signature line will appear at the bottom of all items you publish. It is not mandatory. For your business account, you could use it as an advertising statement; for example, "Johnsons Electrical have branches in (name the suburbs)." For your organisation account, you could use it to tell people a bit about what you do. As a sports club you could use it to promote your club.

Account status and becoming a Trusted Account Holder
When you first join iworldpeople, your account will be shown on your My iworldpeople page as "moderated". Our Site Manager will review and activate your account. This is a manual, not an automated process. The reason our site manager does this is that iworldpeople is a community resource. We don't want people creating fake accounts. We want authentic people, businesses and organisations to post up interesting items in honesty and good faith. Therefore, when you create your account, our Site Manager will validate your details and then activate your account. Your account status will then be described as trusted. You will see this every time you log on to your My iworldpeople page.

This is the second and last authentication check, and helps us to ensure that all items posted to iworldpeople community sites can be trusted and helps to create a more trusted online community.

With your account status shown as "moderated" you can still start publishing. Before your items are actually posted to the site, they will be reviewed first by the Site Manager.

When your account is activated you will receive an email from us advising you of this.

So, to summarise

  1. Join iworldpeople and edit your account. Account status shown as "moderated" While your account status is moderated, items you publish will be reviewed first and then posted on to the site, so there will be a slight delay.
  2. Our Site Manager reviews your account details and changes the status to "trusted".
  3. Once your account status is trusted, when you click the publish button your items will immediately appear on the site.

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Message Links

What are Message Links?
At iworldpeople, we want to help strengthen the relationship that exists when local businesses sponsor local not for profit clubs and organisations.

Therefore at iworldpeople, businesses and organisations can put messages on each others web pages.

Primary sponsorship
When you have a business WebPage and directory listing with iworldpeople you can nominate community organisations for a free directory listing and WebPage. This makes you their primary iworldpeople sponsor. On that WebPage there is a place, for you, as sponsor, to place a message or advertisement that links back to your WebPage. This is what we call a Message Link. You can update the message at any time and when their members visit their WebPage, for the latest news or events, they will see your message.

Included in the fee for your business WebPage is a free message link which you can use to sponsor a free WebPage for an organisation.

All other sponsorships
You may, of course, have other community organisations that you currently sponsor as well. You can offer "Messsage Links" on iworldpeople to as many organisations as you wish for a low $25 per annum per Message Link".

Organisations
If you are an organisation, and you create your iworldpeople WebPage, you have 60 days to find a Primary Sponsor (see above).With a Primary Sponsor, you get your WebPage at no charge and you can place a message link on your sponsors' page. This could be a simple thank you, or promotion of your upcoming fundraising event. Whatever you choose, it will be visible to anyone who visits their WebPage and you can update or change the message at any time.

You may also have other sponsors for your organisation and you can recognize them by accepting up to ten messages onto your iworldpeople WebPage, and sending up to ten messages to their web pages.

These message links are free of charge to you.

How Do Message Links Work?
First you create a Message Link and then you offer it to the business organisation of your choice. It will not appear on their WebPage until they "accept" it.

To create a Message Link

  1. Go to your My iworldpeople Account page.
  2. Click on Create Message Link and create your message.
  3. Click "submit".
  4. Go to your My iworldpeople account page" and you will see the message link displayed.
  5. Click on "offer" and you will be asked to enter the iworldpeople directory listing number of the business or organisation you wish to offer the message link to.

To receive and accept a Message Link.

  1. You will receive an email message from the business or organisation who is offering you a Message Link for your WebPage.
  2. Go to your My iworldpeople page and accept the message.

For more information, read How Message Links Work

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Publishing a Classified Ad

Create your Classified Ad
Go to your My iworldpeople page
Click on Create Classified Advertisement

Which iworldpeople communities will my advertisement publish to?
Your ad will publish to the "home community" you entered when you joined.

What does Ad Type mean?
If you are advertising (either offered or wanted) for your business, then select "Business" type. If you are advertising (either offered or wanted) for personal items, then select "personal" type.

How much will my classified cost?

Business Membership
All business classifieds are charged a base fee of $5 for posting to your home community. You can post your ad to as many iworldpeople communities as you like; each additional community will cost $1 each. Business ads are listed at the top of the community classifieds section.

Individual Membership
With individual membership it is free to post a classified ad to your home community. We have set a limit of free ads per month, above which there is a minimum fee of $3.00 each. If you want your ad to stand out more you can choose to make it a "featured listing". This will cost $5 and includes 3 extra photos. If you want to publish your ad to extra communities in addition to your "home community" an extra charge of $1 per additional community will apply.

Organisation Membership
With organisation membership it is free to post a classified ad to your home community. We have set a limit of free ads per month, above which there is a minimum fee of $3.00 each. If you want your ad to stand out more you can choose to make it a "featured listing". This will cost $5 and includes 3 extra photos. If you want to publish your ad to extra communities in addition to your "home community" an extra charge of $1 per additional community will apply.

There is no additional charge for premium categories eg. real estate, jobs, business services or vehicles.

See Price Schedule.

Do you charge "Success Fees"?
No

How long can I advertise for?
You can list your classified for any length of time between 1 day and 14 days. No additional charges apply.

Can I make changes to my ad once it is published?
Yes. On your My iworldpeople page, click on the name of your ad, and the edit ad page will appear.

What if I want to Withdraw My Ad?
Go to your My iworldpeople account page, "My Classified Advertisements" and click delete. Should you choose to withdraw your ad within 24 hours of its publication, email sales@iworldpeople.com with the details of your deleted ad, including your iworldpeople account name. Refunds in the event of cancellation of a posting for which a fee has been charged are at the discretion of iworldpeople management.

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Publishing a Site Advertisement

What are Site Advertisements?
Site Ads are small box shape ads that appear down the right hand side of every community home page and region home page. Whether you are a business, an organisation or an individual community member, you can create and publish your own site ads, and they cost just $2 a day. This is a brilliant and very cost effective way for you to get your message across to your local target audience.

Even better, your ad can link to your iworldpeople WebPage, your web site, your iworldpeople classified ad or a full page ad that you can create yourself. All this for just $2 a day!

Five site ads appear at any one time and if more than five have been published, they will rotate on the page every sixty seconds.

Here are some ideas for what could be advertised there;

Step One- Create a Draft Site Advertisement

Go to your My iworldpeople page.

Under the heading "Site Ads" click create

Complete the Create/Edit A Site Advertisement template

Before you complete this page you need to decide what you would like your Site Ad to link to. When your Site Ad is "linked", when readers click on the ad they are taken to a page with more information. You can choose to link your ad to your web site, your WebPage on iworldpeople, a classified ad on iworldpeople that you have previously created or you can link it to a full page advertisement.

If you choose to link your ad to a full page advertisement, when you click "next" you will be taken to the full page ad template. Complete this. Click "next" and you will be taken to your my iworldpeople page. Your ad will be listed on your My iworldpeople page under the heading Site Ads. Its status will be shown as "draft" because it is not yet published.

Step Two- Create an Advertisement Plan

Now you have created your draft advertisement, your next step is to create your Advertisement Plan, that is, to decide which pages on the site you want your ad to appear and on what dates.

Go to your My iworldpeople page.

Under the heading "Ad Plans" click create

If you have "Individual membership" you may have created some business or organisation accounts, so choose which account you want to publish the ad under.

Click "next" and you will be asked to give your plan a name. This name will appear on your My iworldpeople page for your information only, the name will not be published.

Click "next".

Choose one community home page or regional home page on which you want your ad to appear.

Click "save location".

The next screen asks you for the dates you would like your ad to appear. Remember the ad will cost $2 a day.

Choose the dates using the calendar provided and click "save dates".

The next screen is called "Advert Placement-Choose locations to publish your ad to". This is giving you the opportunity to choose another location with dates for your ad to appear.

Choose another community home page or regional home page on which you want your ad to appear and click "save location" as before.

When you have finished choosing the locations and dates for your ad plan, click "confirm plan". You will be taken to a summary of your ad plan. You can either cancel, edit plan or pay for your ad plan. Click on "pay for plan."

You can pay by credit card or credit account. You can only choose credit account if you have previously created a WebPage and had credit approved by iworldpeople.

Now you have booked the space and dates on the pages you chose.

Step Three- Publish your Site Ad

Now you have
1) Created your draft Site Ad
2) Booked and paid for the location(s) and date(s) you want your ad to appear (your ad plan).

Your next step is to link (attach) the actual ad to the ad plan, so that it will automatically publish on the pages and dates you chose.

Go to your My iworldpeople page

Click on the name of the ad plan

Click on "choose ad".

Select the ad that you want to attach and click next.

Your ad is now attached to the ad plan and will be published on the pages and dates you selected in your ad plan.

Can I make changes to my Site Ad?
You can make changes to your Site Ad at any time, even after it has been published. Go to your My iworldpeople page and click on the ad name. You can edit your ad, withdraw it or delete it altogether.

Can I make changes to my Ad Plan?
You can add extra locations and dates to your ad plan.
Even after the ad has been published you can choose a different ad to attach to your ad plan

Do I need to be a member to publish a Site Ad?
Yes.

Can I Choose for my Site Ad to have both text and an image?
No. However, you can add text to an image before uploading it and your full page advertisement can have both text and image.

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Publishing News/Events/Notices/Articles/
Opinions/Compliments/Photos

Create your Item
Go to your My iworldpeople page. Under "My Published Items" select "create".

Choose publication type; either News/Opinion/Event/Notice/Article/Photo

Select account name. If you have "Individual membership" you may have created some business or organisation accounts, so choose which one you want to publish the item under.

Clicking on "create" will take you to the "Edit Item Form"

Simply fill it in then click either "save", "preview", "publish" or "cancel".

Save-Your item will not be published, it will be saved it to your My iworldpeople page. The item status will be shown as "draft".You can then go back to your My iworldpeople page and publish it later.

Preview-Enables you to see exactly what will be published.

Cancel- Your item will be cancelled and you will not be able to edit it or change it later.

Publish-The item will immediately be published to the site. It will appear on your My iworldpeople page as published. You can choose to take it offline at any time by going to your My iworldpeople page.

If your account status is showing as moderated , items you publish will be reviewed first and then posted on to the site, so there will be a slight delay.

When your account status is trusted, you can click the publish button and your items will immediately appear on the site.

see Account Status and Becoming a Trusted Account Holder

Do I need to be a member to create and publish?
Yes.

Which iworldpeople communities will my item publish to?
When you joined iworldpeople, you chose up to 4 iworldpeople communities to publish to. You also chose whether to have the option of publishing to your regional site.

When you are creating an item to publish, the communities and region you chose will be displayed on the page, and we will ask you to select which of those 4 you want to publish to. You may choose all of them, or just one, it's up to you. For example, if you are publishing on behalf of your local Plunket calling for volunteers on National collection day, you may not need to publish that to all 4 communities, just the area you are short of volunteers in.

The community I want to publish to is not listed?
You may not have selected this community when setting up your Account. Go to your "My iworldpeople" page, select Edit Account and reselect the communities you wish to publish to and click submit. That is all you need to change. You will receive an email advising you when our Site Manager approves the change. Go to My iworldpeople. Click on My Published Items. Select your item, select the communities and click "publish".

How long will my item stay published for?
Your item will remain published on the site for 30 days. However you can delete or archive your item at any time before 30 days. You are in control. If you post an event, it will remain published until the day after the event finishes.

Can I Make Changes to an Item after it is Created?
Yes. You can even make changes after it is published. Here's how.

Go to your "My iworldpeople" page.

You will see the item listed under "My Published Items".

Click on the items name, the "Edit Item" page will appear.

Make any changes that you want, you can even change the category that it is published in and the iworldpeople communities it is published to.

What if I want to withdraw My Published Item?
Go to your my iworldpeople page, "My Published Items" select the item you want to withdraw by clicking on the item name and click "delete."

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List your Business/Organisation/Club

What does this Mean?
If you don't have time to join iworldpeople right now, you can still create a Directory Listing for your business, organisation and club in under two minutes. Your business, organisation or club will then appear in the searchable directory, and you can write a description and contact details.

When you create this Fast Listing, you will be sent a code. Keep this code in a safe place, because if you decide, at a later date, to join iworldpeople and use more of our services, you will want access to your listing from your My iworldpeople page. So while you are registering, you will be asked if you have a fast listing code. Enter it in the box provided. After registering, go your My iworldpeople page and your listing will be shown there.

How do I make changes to my Listing?

To make changes to your listing information, you need to join iworldpeople. See paragraph above.

Directory Listing and Web Page

What is a Directory Listing?
With business and organisation membership, you automatically have the option of creating a free directory listing as part of the registration process. Your directory listing can include contact details and a short 80 character description of your business or organisation.

This means when people use our search facility to find a business or organisation, they will find you.

What is a Web Page? For businesses and organisations we offer a WebPage linked from the directory listing. Read Promote Your Business or Promote Your Club or Organisation.

What Does Web Page Address Mean?
You can select a name for your WebPage. This will be displayed like this: "yourname.iworldpeople.co.nz". This is a WebPage address that you can give to anyone who wants to find your WebPage. Enter only the "yourname" part of address into the WebPage edit form and use only "letters numbers _ - " characters without any spaces.

Uploading a Photo

How to manage your images (photos) for uploading to this website
All images should be either jpeg or gif files
The maximum image dimensions displayed is 250 X 250 pixels
Image aspect ratios are retained during resizing and the largest dimension is sized down to 250pixels
A typical digital camera takes pictures that are far too large for uploading to a website.

iworldpeople provide you with a folder to store the images and photos as you post them and for future use. This is called your "My Images" folder. It is limited to 1Mb of photos. There is plenty of space for lots of photos if you manage the size of them prior to uploading. This is how to manage your photos:

Select the photo. Is the photo aspect ratio of landscape or portrait what you want? If not you can crop and change the aspect ratio of the photo to fill the area provided on the iworldpeople page.

Crop the picture so you show only what you want, not huge amounts of unnecessary background.

Resize the pictures to limit the largest dimension to 250 pixels. If you don't do this the iworldpeople image manager will size them to fit but you may be unnecessarily using space in your image folder that you require for other photos.

Rotate your picture so it is straight up.

Optimise the picture for posting on a website. This will compress the picture into jpeg format and make it ready for uploading.

Virtually all computer image processors have Crop, Resize, Brighten/contrast, and Red-eye correction features. All digital cameras come with a computer software package that has these basic features and menu options to save for a WebPage.
If you try to upload a photo taken with a digital camera without saving it for emailing or for a WebPage the file size will exceed the upper limit of 500kb and be rejected.

How to check if your photos are ready for uploading
Right click on the image filename and choose properties. If the photo has been emailed to you it typically will show:
Dimension: 640 x 480
Type: JPEG or JPG
Size: 25KB to 80KB.
You can upload this directly to the site. However it is best to resize the largest size to 250 pixels first.

If the image shows:
Dimension: 2000 x 1600 or something similar Size: > 500KB
it will be a full size digital photo and must be edited before uploading.

Tools to use
Your first choice is likely to be the software package that came with your digital camera.

If you have Microsoft XP there are different tools depending on the version:
Microsoft Office Picture Manager is a good tool.

Microsoft: XP, Win2000, Win98. If you don't have an image management tool your email system will resize the photo suitable for emailing. Do this:
Right click on the image filename; - this will open a menu
Choose 'Send to' and 'Mail Recipient'. On later versions you may be presented with a dialogue box where you will choose "make my pictures smaller". Then choose the dimension 640 x 480 and click 'Okay'. This will open an email screen with your resized image as an attachment. Save the image (drag to desktop) and you have an image ready to upload to the site. The image will be 640 x 480 and 70Kb or something close to these measurements. This is not perfect but will provide an image you can upload to the site.

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