Why do graphic's edges get jagged when inserted into a web page?

[Mike]

The quality of graphics inserted into a web page are not near as good as the
original graphics file...Why?

 

[Patricia Geary]

Are you resizing the graphic image by changing the size in your html code?

pat

 

[Mike]

I'm new to all of this. I'm developing the web site in FrontPage. I
understand that everything I do does something to the HTML code, but I am not
writing it with code per se. Just cut, paste, size. Teaching an old dog new
tricks is even harder when you're the old dog and you're teaching yourself.
It is much larger than the entire page when I first insert it, so I am
reducing it considerably.

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

resize and optimize your images before you Import them into FP and place
them into your design.
use your favorite editor to do this (not FP!!)...Photoshop, PaintShop Pro,
Paint.net, etc. IrFanview is a good (free) program to do this also but is
not a full image editor.

if this is happening to graphic images...what are you creating your graphics
with...and how are you saving them?



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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression

 

[Mike]

I believe this is what I ended up doing. I opened up the JPG in MS Digital
Image Suite and inserted my Graphic Logo directly into the picture where I
wanted it to be. Then I resaved that as another JPG and inserted the new one
as my background image.
One thing though...The diagonal line edges of my logo are STILL jagged, not
straight/smooth lines. Can this be fixed?