Utilizing Thumbnail Graphics
High-resolution graphics can make a page load slowly, but avoiding high-resolution graphics altogether can limit your site’s effectiveness in delivering content. A compromise is to include thumbnail images, which are low-resolution copies of the images that are linked to the larger, high-resolution versions.
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Some Web development programs, such as Microsoft FrontPage, create thumbnail images automatically when you set up a photo album page.
To create a thumbnail, you will need small versions of each of the graphics. You can create them by opening the original graphic in a program like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, and then using that program to scale the picture to a lower resolution (for example, 100 pixels high). ...
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