Alfred, Thanks so much for that info. I will now seriously start building the web page. Probably take me a million years. We will all see it next lifetime. Ha. Regards Diann P. > > 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? > 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