When you are looking around on someone's website, I am willing to bet, if you don't see anything that will catch your eye, other than a sea of text, there is a good chance many people will leave.
Do you remember when you went from picture books to chapter books? I do and I remember being so upset that I didn't get to look at pictures anymore while I read.
The pictures helped me understand the words and it is the same thing on the internet. No one wants to look at a sea of text and hop in somewhere and maybe pick up what the reader is saying.
Okay enough about pictures in general.
The featured image!
When you have a blog roll that is visible on your site, the featured image will appear with each individual blog post, if the title itself doesn't catch the readers eye, your featured image should!
Your featured image can also be used anytime you post to social media.
The featured image is important to catch someone's eye, the content inside the post better support that awesome featured image though!
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I hope this helps! Let me know if this worked for you. :)
For example, the WA Blog Posts here are resized to 545 x 200, but that image size is too small to upload via WA, so I create my banners as 1090 x 400 and they fit perfectly each time.
You need to take every Blog / Theme as they come :-)
I play around with different sizes all the time. I have had to resize a few images to use here on WA. 100% agree with you, take every Blog / Theme as they come! :)
I was so frustrated today trying to upload photos I took with my iPad. I kept getting HTTP errors.
I changed the theme, I deleted one of the plugins, I changed the photos from JPG to PDF...nothing worked.
I will try inserting my photos into this program and maybe I will get past that darn HTTP error.
Thank you for the great lesson.
