How to put a photo / picture as background and merge smaller pics into the back ground

[Subsea.UK]

Hi
I would like to know how to set a hi res phot as a background to a web page
and if it is possible to put smaller photos on the page and blend the edge
of these into the background so there are no descernable edges?

Thanks for the help

Kevan

 

[Murray]

I would like to know how to set a hi res phot as a background to a web

page

This sounds like a bad start - hires usually means heavy weight. The
generally accepted target weight for a web page is 40-45K total, including
the weight of all your images referenced on the page. But, that's just a
suggestion.

and if it is possible to put smaller photos on the page and blend the edge
of these into the background so there are no descernable edges?

You would be best advised to make a single image in your graphics editor
(with the smaller images placed as desired), and use that as your
background.

 

[Rick Budde]

Further amplification on Murray's point: if a web page is
slow in loading due to its large size, people will very
often exit the page and go onto something else. If your
objective is to lose visitors to your site, large page
sizes are an excellent approach.

If you must display a large size graphic as part of your
content, don't do it on your home page. Provide a link
from your home page and warn folks in advance that it
will take awhile to download.

 

[Subsea.UK]

Thanks Guys
I take on what your saying, perhaps i came across poorly. what i am trying
to do is make a black & white backgound say of some new architectural office
buildings very washed out like a transparency with smaller pictures
inserted. I agree about inserting the smaller pictures first and putting the
whole lot in as one unit. I have seen several websites which have this sort
of thing and don't seem to take long at all to load. Perhaps even though the
photo quality on them seems hi-res it is not??
Rgds
Kev

 

[Murray]

Here's the rule. You build for the lowest common denominator, i.e., smallest
expected browser viewport, and slowest expected connection speed.

The 40-45K rule-of-thumb was concocted based on the observation that after
waiting 10seconds for engaging content, your clickthrough frequency goes way
up. On a 56k dialup, you have about a 4K/second practical throughput, which
means the 10second rule kicks in at about 40-45K total.

I don't know what your connection speed is, or what the site's images are
weighted at, so it'd be hard to say more....