Website Xpress - Content Supply Guidelines

The guidelines below outline the formats we can accept content in. You can e-mail electronic files to us at mail@postillionsoftware.com in PC format. E-mails should be kept as small as possible and we recommend an e-mail size of no larger than 4Mb. If the files you are supplying are larger than this you should send the files on floppy disk, 100mb or 250mb Zip Disk or CD in PC format. If you need to compress the files before sending them to us please use one of the following compression formats TAR, gzip, UUencode, XXencode, BinHex or MIME.

All content to be supplied by the client should be provided promptly and in accordance with these guidelines to ensure that the development schedule is maintained. It is important that these guidelines are followed to ensure that the correct content is added to the correct page on your website. If these guidelines are not followed it may result in additional costs being incurred for your project.

Depending on the content supply requirements for the given website clients will require a certain level of computer literacy. Below is a table of different content with details of supported formats and applications.

Content Type Supported Formats Recommend Software
Text
  • .doc
  • .odt
  • .sxw
  • .rtf
  • .txt

Documents should clearly state which page the contents are for and any photos or images should be supplied separately to the document.

Please do not supply text as a PDF document.

MS Word
Openoffice
Star Office
WordPerfect

Photos
  • .png (Recommended)
  • .tif
  • .jpg (Recommended)
  • .psd

All photos should be a minimum of 800-1200 pixels wide. The larger the supplied photo the better for us to work with. Photos should be scanned at 300dpi.

Please do not supply photos as a PDF document.

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Corel Photo Paint
Corel Paint Shop Pro

Logos, Illustrations and other Graphics
  • .pdf (Recommended)
  • .ai
  • .eps
  • .fh
  • .cdr

All logos should be supplied in a vector format with all text converted to paths/curves. If you are not able to supply the logo in a vector format then a high resolution bitmap should be used.

If Logos, Illustrations and other Graphics are supplied as a PDF document please ensure it is an editable PDF format.

Adobe Illustrator
Corel Draw
Macromedia Freehand

PDF Documents

All PDF documents should be optimised ready for web use. Such optimisation will reduce the file size for downloading over the Internet.

Adobe PDF

Product Data

This data will be entered via a web based interface. You will need to prepare the appropriate information ready to enter into this interface and upload the required photos at the required image size.

Mozilla Firefox
Opera
MS Internet Explorer

 

If you are submitting content by e-mail you should limit the size of each e-mail to 4Mb. If you are supplying a large number of files you should consider sending these on a CD or creating a compressed folder/file containing all these files and e-mail a single file.