Darci, What dpi do you use to scan the images? And does anyone have any suggested places to look for help in building web pages that have links and photos? I am still such a newbie at putting web pages together. Thanks, Diann P.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Diann Payne" <diann@f1.net.au> > > Darci, > > What dpi do you use to scan the images? And does anyone have any suggested > places to look for help in building web pages that have links and photos? I > am still such a newbie at putting web pages together. > > Thanks, > Diann P. > ============== HTML tutors telling you how to fix up a web page. http://www.pagetutor.com/pagetutor/forms/ http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/ http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/ backgrounds and borders http://www.boogiejack.com/ Scanning tips http://www.scantips.com/ The dpi (dots per inch) doesn’t matter by itself. But combined with the size of the image it does. The standard VGA screen is 480 pixels high by 600 pixels wide. If you want to view a postage stamp the size of the full screen, then about 600dpi would do it. But if you have a 4” by 6” portrait snapshot (large dimension vertical, up and down) and you want to see it all on one screen, you would have to scan it at about 75dpi. Most scanners won’t do that, so you have to rely on your software to adjust the size of the scanned picture so that the vertical and horizontal dimension in pixels is no higher than the number of pixels of the displaying screen. Then save the photo for the web page in a compressed format like jpg for quicker loading on a slow connection. I checked out Darci’s page, I think that she should think about uploading the black and white pictures in gray scale rather than full color, they would be about 1/3 the size, therefore load three times as fast. I have been assuming that most people use at least an 800 by 600 display anymore, I might be wrong. Alfred