I am building an online catalog website for a furniture company. When I put 72 res pics on they look like crap. Is 150 res too high? Will the pages load painfully slow with 150 res? What size in inches should I save my pics to for website?
2006-06-23 09:28:55 · 3 answers · asked by hipichick777 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
150px is very nice, but you can probably get away with 120px.
Don't forgot to have it link to a larger version of the image - that makes a bigger difference than just trying to have some optimum thumbnail sze.
Keep in mind, web graphics are best sized in pixels, not dots per inch.
There is NO WAY to translate from one to the other as users can have any resolution of screen on any size of monitor and web browsers render only by pixel size.
You can cheap and put images n a PDF file though. Dots per inch works just fine in that format (150 ok, 300 ideal).
2006-06-23 10:20:39 · answer #1 · answered by sheeple_rancher 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
You should never use a resolution more than 96 dpi on a website, 72 dpi is preferred. The reason your images may look like crap is that they may be in the wrong format. Check to make sure they are at least 72 dpi and that if it is a photo that it is JPEG and not a GIF. GIFs are ideal for line art, but are not a good choice for photos.
2006-06-23 16:55:00 · answer #2 · answered by comicldy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For websites, an image should never be more than 100 KB. That's standard practice, as anything more than that will take too long. So whatever you have to do to the pic to make it that size, is what you have to do.
2006-06-23 16:32:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋