The JPG format is best for images with gradients, blends, and inconsistent color variations such as photographs or paintings. Images which have well separated tones should be saved in GIF or PNG format. For example, if you include text in your image, you will notice a definite fuzzing of characters when you view it.

You have several options when optimizing JPG images. JPG is a lossy format (which means it throws away bits), so with each generation of image you save you will loose information, and that will degrade quality of image.

Any good image editor (Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro and others) will allow you to specify a compression percentage when you save file. Before you purchase a graphics editor make sure it has a preview pane on save so you can see what compressed image looks like when you save it. This is a lot easier than saving a copy, examining it, resaving it and so on.

JPEG supports a concept similar to interlacing in GIF which is called progressive JPEG. This simply means that a rough image is displayed initially, followed by more and more detail as additional bits of image are received. This is good for displaying large images. Unfortunately, progressive JPEG is a relatively new standard and is not supported by all browsers.

PNG

HTML Code The best way to put auto playing sound on your web site is MIDI. If you'd like sound to load automatically and loop in background this is best code to use in for both Netscape and Explorer. <bgsound src="mysong.mid" loop=infinite> If you'd like MIDI file to play on request in foreground, it's just a matter of linking as Click to hear Sometimes your web server may not have mime types configured properly and this will prevent MIDI files from playing. In which case you need to contact your server.

Making Midi Files Making your own MIDI files can be a difficult task. To make good sounding midi files takes a background in arranging, music, MIDI sequencing and computers. You can download MIDI files from various MIDI archives but quality can be poor and often not thematically correct for your site. MIDI Design below at http//www.scugog-net.com/room108/midi/container.html offer complete customized MIDI Loops for $35 per song. One of common MIDI sequencing software available with free demos are Cakewalk. This demo works great but doesn't save or print music. I personally like using Logic with its great quantizing features. If you have some musical background, here are some hints to making good midi files.