Share with the Scratch community

As you browse projects on the Scratch web site, you may notice some projects get featured while, others have a lot of views and "love its." As a new Scratch programmer, we need to focus on developing our programming skills rather than trying to win a popularity contest.

Don't get discouraged if your projects seem to get lost among the thousands of other community projects. You'll eventually find an audience with the help of this chapter.

Now, let's select a project to share. I'm going to use the pong project from Chapter 6.

Reduce file size

When we share our work on the Web, we need to be conscious of how big our project file gets. Images and sounds will increase our file size more than anything else, and projects with large files take longer to load and play from the Web.

Fortunately, Scratch gives us a way to reduce the file size of our images and sounds before we share them on the Web.

Time for action – compress media files

Before we share our work, let's make...