diff --git a/backend/apimanager/media_views.py b/backend/apimanager/media_views.py
index 12ee491..266ca68 100644
--- a/backend/apimanager/media_views.py
+++ b/backend/apimanager/media_views.py
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ from rest_framework.response import Response
 from rest_framework.parsers import MultiPartParser, FormParser
 from django.core.files.storage import default_storage
 from django.conf import settings
+from PIL import Image
+import io
 
 from .serializers import (
     MediaSerializer
@@ -15,6 +17,23 @@ from .serializers import (
 class MediaUpload(APIView):
     parser_classes = (MultiPartParser, FormParser)
 
+    def reduce_image_quality(self, image, quality=20):
+        try:
+            img = Image.open(image)
+            img_io = io.BytesIO()
+
+            # Handle different image modes
+            if img.mode in ("RGBA", "P"):
+                img = img.convert("RGB")
+
+            img_format = img.format if img.format else 'JPEG'
+            img.save(img_io, format=img_format, quality=quality)
+            img_io.seek(0)
+            return img_io
+        except Exception as e:
+            print(f"Error reducing image quality: {e}")
+            return image
+
     def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
         file_serializer = MediaSerializer(data=request.data)
         if file_serializer.is_valid():
@@ -29,12 +48,20 @@ class MediaUpload(APIView):
                     file_path = f"{file_path_base}/{resource_type}/{resource_id}/media/{file_unique_slug+resource_id+f.name}"
                 else:
                     file_path = f"{file_path_base}/{resource_type}/media/{file_unique_slug+resource_id+f.name}"
-                default_storage.save(file_path, f)
+
+                # Reduce image quality if the file is an image
+                if f.content_type.startswith('image'):
+                    reduced_image = self.reduce_image_quality(f, quality=65)
+                    default_storage.save(file_path, reduced_image)
+                else:
+                    # Save non-image files directly
+                    default_storage.save(file_path, f)
 
             return Response(file_serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
         else:
             return Response(file_serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)
 
+
 class ListMedia(APIView):
     def get(self, request, resource_type, resource_id, format=None):
         if resource_id != resource_type:
diff --git a/backend/apimanager/publish_methods.py b/backend/apimanager/publish_methods.py
index 86ee000..5fb2585 100644
--- a/backend/apimanager/publish_methods.py
+++ b/backend/apimanager/publish_methods.py
@@ -50,9 +50,10 @@ def github_deploy():
     git_commands = {}
     git_commands["git_init"] = ['git', 'init']
     git_commands["git_add"] = ['git', 'add', '.']
+    git_commands["git_pull"] = ['git', 'pull']
     git_commands["git_config_email"] = ['git', 'config', '--local', 'user.email']
     git_commands["git_config_name"] = ['git', 'config', '--local', 'user.name']
-    git_commands["git_commit"] = ['git', 'commit', '-m', '"Update website"']
+    git_commands["git_commit"] = ['git', 'commit', '-m', 'Update website']
     git_commands["git_branch"] = ['git', 'branch', '-m', 'main']
     git_commands["git_add_url"] = ['git', 'remote', 'add', 'origin']
     git_commands["git_push"] = ['git', 'push', '-u', 'origin', 'main']
@@ -60,9 +61,6 @@ def github_deploy():
     data_location = f'{settings.BASE_DIR}/deploy/'
     deploy_location = settings.DEPLOY_CONFIG["DEPLOY_LOCATION"]+'/ghpages'
 
-    run_gh_build = ['npm', 'run', 'build:ghpages']
-
-    subprocess.run(run_gh_build, cwd=settings.DEPLOY_CONFIG["DEPLOY_LOCATION"].replace('/dist', ''), check=True, text=True, capture_output=True)
     create_404_page(deploy_location)
     copyData(data_location, deploy_location)
     
diff --git a/frontend/viewable-ui/src/components/home.jsx b/frontend/viewable-ui/src/components/home.jsx
index fe783d1..a823134 100755
--- a/frontend/viewable-ui/src/components/home.jsx
+++ b/frontend/viewable-ui/src/components/home.jsx
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ function HomePage(props) {
         </Row>
         <Row className={`mb-5 mt-2 ${ThemeConfig[GlobalTheme].textColor}`}>
           <Col xs='3' className='d-none d-md-block'></Col>
-          <Col className='p-4 blogContent'>
+          <Col className='p-2 blogContent'>
             <div className={`blogContent ${ThemeConfig[GlobalTheme].textColor}`}>{introContent}</div>
           </Col>
           <Col xs='3' className='d-none d-md-block'></Col>