Website pictures!

[Budweiserbob!]

Ok, my mate is making a website and is using www.freewebstiehosting.com to host it (gives 100mb storage, guestbook, ect.) but he is having problem trying to find the format of pictures that will show on his website. The main 2 (.JPG and .GIF) don't work so he needs to know which format will work. I come here to ask for your advice and help because i know there are alot of computer experts. i consider myself quite skillful at computing but this is the first time i come around this problem! any ideas?

Information you may want to know:

1) he has used MS paint to create pictures.
2) telewest broadband.
pictures less then 1kb.....i think!
3) he is using the free section as he doesn't want to pay for the extension!

 

[Smade1]

The main image formats are bmp, jpg, gif and png. These are correctly decoded by web browsers and so are the ones imbedded in web pages. Bmp (windows bitmap) files are not compressed so are generally very large and will therefore load too slowly for web sites. The other three formats are compressed and are best for

jpg - photographic images
gif - line art and limited animation
png - best for artwork ( burn all gifs)

If I remember correctly MS paint saves as bmp and to give you an example a frame capture at 384 x 288 pixels gives an image size of 324K. Therefore a 1K image in bmp format is not very likely.

I would suggest that you get hold of a freeware viewer such as Irfanview and try viewing the image with that as it will tell you if the image is saved in the correct format.

Do not make the mistake of confusing image format with file extension - you can easily save a jpg image as image.jpg and a web browser won't care and just decode what it reads from the image file.

It's not going to be a problem on the server side as the web server doen't give a monkey's what type of file you put in the directory - it will just send a stream of bytes to the web b
rowser and it's up to the browser to view it.

The only other thing I can think of is that you have the image links wrong and this will give the classic red x box. This can be checked if you put the absolute image address into the browser such as:

website - http://burnallgifs.org
image - http://burnallgifs.org/images/burnallgifs.png

hope this helps you to sort it out.

PM me if you need more info

 

[Smade1]

Oh, and get your mate off MSPaint. There are a number of far better freeware image editors - this refers

MSPaint sucks worse than a gross of vacuum cleaners.



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[Budweiserbob!]

Cheers dude! guess my mate gave me the wrong info about "format" and "file extension"

Thanks for the help!

PS. He thanks you aswell! 😀