How's this for obvious statement of the day:
The pictures you choose for your web site
are important in determining how good it looks.
You can find or create images in many different ways:
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Download non-copyrighted images from the web (right-click using your mouse and do a "Save as" to your disk) |
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Clip art programs |
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Scan in your own images |
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Create images using image or photo editing software |
You have to be conscious of the size of your image files.
Today's standard web connection is 56K...
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This means 56,000 bits per second are transferred between your computer and the web server. |
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In practicality, this is lucky to be 48K bits... or 6K bytes (8 bits in a byte) |
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So, in 10 seconds you may download around 60 KB of data |
So, if you want fast (in the 10 second area) downloads, then keep your image files in the 20-50 KB range.
Three ways to control the size of your image files:
The two most common image file types are:
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GIF - pronounced "jiff" |
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JPEG - pronounced "jay-peg" |
We'll examine these in detail...