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  • Choosing the Right Graphics Format
  • GIF
  • JPEG
  • PNG
  • Consequences of the “Wrong” Choice
  • Fixing a “Wrong” Choice
  • A Note About Scanned Images
  • Effective use of links
  • Introduction to forms
  • Putting an image into your HTML
  • Alternate Text
  • Specifying Width and Height
  • Scaling an Image
  • Dangers of Scaling

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catcode.com > Guide to Images

Why Good Images Go Bad
A Guide to Effective Use of Images on Your Website

This site’s design is only visible in a graphical browser that supports web standards, but its content is accessible to any browser or Internet device. (Why we do this.)

Ineffective use of images is probably the number one reason that web pages perform poorly. To make your pages peform more effectively, you need only follow this rule:

Make the size of your graphic files as small as possible without sacrificing image quality.

The following pages back up that simple rule with some detail:

Graphics Choices

  • Choosing the Right Graphics Format
  • GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
  • JPEG (Joint Photographic Expert Group Format)
  • PNG (Portable Network Graphics Format)
  • Consequences of the “Wrong” Choice
  • Fixing a “Wrong” Choice
  • A Note About Scanned Images

Other on-line tutorials on this website:

  • Effective use of links
  • Introduction to forms

Using Images effectively with HTML

  • Putting an image into your HTML
  • Alternate Text
  • Specifying Width and Height
  • Scaling an Image
  • Dangers of Scaling (note: this page contains a large sample image; it may take a while to download on a slow connection)

Summary

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