Information about website graphics & content

Q: How do I get graphics for my web site?
A: If you are a business selling products we recommend going to your supplier and obtaining these graphics. Remember that all graphics from other sites may (probably) be copyrighted. Even if you you distribute products from a supplier we'll need authorization for using those graphics.

If you need general graphics we can obtain graphics from a variety of companies that provide tons of great graphics.

Q: Who will format my graphics?
A: During your design process any graphic you provide to us may have minor formatting for the web presence.

Q: What is the best format for graphics for web site display?
A: For graphics that contain the 216 web safe colors or contain only a few distinct colors GIF is the format of choice. GIF is the only format that support animation. 
If you have a graphic with very complex and detailed color or photographs JPG is the way to go.

Q: What is the difference between GIF and JPEG format?
A: GIF is short for Graphics Interchange Format, another of the graphics formats supported by the Web. The GIF format is a lossless compression technique and it supports only 256 colors. GIF is better than JPG for images with only a few distinct colors, such as line drawings, black and white images and small text that is only a few pixels high. With an animation editor, GIF images can be put together for animated images. GIF also supports transparency, where the background color can be set to transparent in order to let the color on the underlying Web page to show through.

JPG is short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the original name of the committee that wrote the standard. JPG is one of the image file formats supported on the Web. JPG is a lossy compression technique that is designed to compress color and grayscale continuous-tone images. The information that is discarded in the compression is information that the human eye cannot detect. JPG images support 16 million colors and are best suited for photographs and complex graphics. The user typically has to compromise on either the quality of the image or the size of the file. JPG does not work well on line drawings, lettering or simple graphics because there is not a lot of the image that can be thrown out in the lossy process, so the image loses clarity and sharpness.

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