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    Hi can anyone tell me what the best size in pixels images should be for a website.

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    A picture is worth a thousand words...

    Nothing will encourage sales more than a good quality, professional image. In addition to an attractive price and good service, customers like to see the product in as much clarity and detail as possible.

    For rendering efficiency, pages that show a multitude of products should display the image initially as a thumbnail, but the customer should be able to quickly and easily see a larger image.

    IH2 enables the above very effectively.

    The large image should be sized to display properly in a typical screen (800 x 600) so that the viewer does not have to scroll the image.

    Thumbnails should be large enough to ensure the product is easily recognisable.

    Product Images should always be jpg, not gif, and MUST be clean, crisp and professional looking.

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    so do you mean my images should be approx 800 pixels x 600 pixels
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    Hi can anyone tell me what the best size in pixels images should be for a website.
    Most screens only display at 72DPI - so do the math a 1inch x 1 inch image should be no larger in file size than 72x72 or 5184 bytes and will still render well at half that.

    Large images should all be matted to about 400x320 but this is just a general rule

    Shoppers will wait for a larger image to load as they have decided they want to see more detail but will not hang around if your general pages take an inordinate time to load so keep the small images small in byte size
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    Such a simple question.
    The 800x600 pixels mentioned in one of the other replies refers to a screen resolution that very few people use anymore. Most people use a much higher resolution. If you create a web site that is larger than 800 pixels that then gets viewed on a screen set to 800x600 the viewer will have to scroll horizontally to view the whole page. But knowing this doesn't answer your question.
    The point is that there is no simple answer to your question. Except to understand how the size of your images will "fit" on your web page.
    Let me give you an example.
    All of the pages on my web site (http://ipicdg.com) fit into a table or div layer 760 pixels wide. Therefore, an image 380 pixels wide would take up half the width of the page. Clear? So, you need to know how wide in pixels (at the minimum) your page will be displayed and then plan your image sizes to fit accordingly.
    One note of caution; it's always best to size your images appropriately using an image editing program rather than using the width/height operators in the HTML code. Most image editors can change the size and maintain proportionality where it is very easy to lose the correct proportions using the width/height HTML specifiers.
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    Thanks thats great.
    Hells

 

 

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