hen designing a Web page, you are faced with many [design] restrictions. First of all you are constrained to a few compressed file types that are usable/viewable by web browsers. In addition most HTML editors do not allow full use of the design space like page layout programs. For example, you can not put one image over another or place text on top of an image. Also images can take up a lot of memory space on the page (a page should total under 50-60 k in size!). This can make a page slow to load on the end users computer. So a designer may be tempted not to use images, but a Web page that consists of nothing but text can be boring! With the growing number of other Web sites that contain images, sounds and motion, your viewers might not want to ONLY read what is on their monitor. A well designed page, therefore, should grab the viewer's attention so they do read the content of your page. One of the easiest ways is to include images.

Listed below are several considerations that Web page designers must be aware of when it comes to including images! Let's look at some of them.

• File type
• File size
• Thumbnail vs. Full image
• Others

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