Thanks folks. I shoot RAW then do a conversion to JPEG for posting one the net etc.. I do use the Canon software for this. The ones I put on my site or others I generally resize to about 700x500 or thereabouts. I use the VSO image resizer for it, you can do as many as you like in one go and its very easy. I just think that they look softer after resizing and no, I dont sharpen after resizing, should I? Please excuse my ignorance here, ANY type of editing loses me, a crop and writing your signature is about my limits!!
Ill go have a look at DPP now too, and thanks for all the other suggestions I will be looking into all of them.