So what types of images will you be using on your blog and what sizes should they ideally be?

Headers

There are plenty of fast-loading blogs out there with headers of up to 100Kb, but that would have to be the upper limit for file size.

WordPress recommend that you keep it down to 50Kb for the header, but I think that perhaps their info is a little outdated.

Buttons (125 x 125 pixel)

My button here for Jane Blogs is only 17Kb and so is the one for my personal blog.

I would suggest the maximum size should be 50Kb, although Project Wonderful allows images of up to 100Kb to be used in their advertising program.

Post Illustrations

The smaller, the better. Less than 50Kb, definitely.

You’ve thought of something else?  Give me a yell!

There were so many different shapes and colours that it completely absorbed my attention for hours at a time.

Recently, Mum passed her magical button tin down to me, and I found that it held the same fascination for Wren and Mr Bump.

They spent hours sorting by colour, shape, size and prettiness.

Together.

A perfect cure for wet weather boredom.

Some things are just timeless, and now I can start collecting buttons to add to the magical button tin, too.