W3C - World Wide Web Consortium One of most popular and mind bending questions I get is. Where do I find all those nifty web tools and solutions for graphic tools code validation?

The W3C writes standards for Web. HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, DOM and many more are all produced and maintained by them. This site is not for faint of heart but contains everything you need to know about standards and much more. http://www.w3.org and also take a look at Macromedia MX web site for great development software.

Now if you’re looking for a site that will have give you all tools and a whole lot more. Here is a link that will knock your socks off it's web reference at http://www.webreference.com this site has Java Scripts, news letters, code tools, services, references, database, how to's articles and a list goes on.

Where do I go from here? As we discussed in this article there are a lot of ways to find resources and to create great graphics. Now I can not tell a lie you will have to do some work. But don't get stressed if you need help contact Albany Graphics NOW. We have a great package for any size company.

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Graphics

It’s well known that one picture worth more than million words. This rule applies on Internet too. Do your best to show clear, attractive photo of your product. If you offer a service, find a photo which will best describe him. However, be careful about file size. Don’t compress your photo to that level to not be clear, but also don’t leave photo on full quality. That will make file size too big, and will increase download time.

Gif vs. JPEG Less experienced web designers many times use wrong format to store their picture. Here are few guidelines which will help mistakes to be avoided. If your photo has small number of colors (less then 64) GIF will be better choice. Make sure however to reduce palette size too. That is, if your image have10-15 colors only, reduce your palette on 16 or 32 colors. Also, if your image contains text, GIF format should be your choice. JPEG use loosy compression method and will cause text and edges to become blurry.

If you are saving a photograph – save it as JPEG

JPEG images can contain over 32 million different colours. That is much more than human eye can see.

If you want to incorporate large text into a photographic image, JPEG may be a good format to use. While edges may still get blurred, danger of it becoming unreadable is slim. If you think your image is more important than text, go ahead and use JPEG format.

Speed

Do your best to reduce download time. We live in a busy world and people are not will to wait long time. Try to reduce size of your graphics as much as possible without to destroy image. Image must look good, but size (in KB) should be as small as possible.

Test before publishing

Do your homework, and do it well. Your visitors will not bother to send you an E-Mail that some of your links does not work or that some of your images does not appear. Even if someone do so, it is quite embarrassing. Perform spell and grammar checking. Remember that in many cases visitor will build his opinion about you or your company on base on your web site. When published, site should not contain any “under construction” or “coming soon” messages.

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