I need some help with resolution issues

[Bignerd]

I am new here, and a common comment I get is that the images appear lousy on viewers screens.
First of all, they look ok on my screen, but I assume there is a jpeg noise issue when others view. A suggestion was made to store the images online, so I opened an account on flickr to experiment. No problem getting the images there, but when embedding I am hit with the same problem, file too large.
I shoot at full resolution raw on my 20d. In photoshop I need to reduce the resolution to post here. When I reduce the resolution, people complain about the image quality.
Can someone please explain to me what is the best method to save the images so that I can post acceptable looking images here while still staying within the guidelines of POTN?

[Woolburr]

Try the Save for Web option in photoshop.

[Bignerd]

Try the Save for Web option in photoshop.
Thank you. I had tried that, but did it wrong!! Amazing what a simple comment can trigger. I found the image size control, then combined with the jpeg quality to meet the size budget. I uploaded properly to flickr and now I can imbed images in the post at the proper size.

Larry

[BeccaNH]

If you got the message that the image was too large, you were uploading them to the POTN site rather than linking to them. To link to your photos that are hosted on another site, click the "Insert Image" button (yellow with a mountain on it) and paste the URL to your photo in the little popup dialog box. It will add the IMG tags so that the image can be displayed within the forum.

Hope that helps!