Chapter 9. Web Tools

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Chapter 9. Web Tools

Images are used on Web sites for a variety of purposesas Background tiles, buttons , bars, banners, and other accents. To be effective, however, Web graphics must both be well designed and have file sizes that are compact enough to load quickly.

Here's what you'll be exploring in this chapter:

• File formats for the Web

• Optimizing Web graphics

• Slicing large images, creating image maps, and making rollovers

NOTE

NOTE

The topic of Web graphics is more than enough to fill a book of its own, and there are quite a few good books on Web graphics. For more information on Web graphics issues, you might want to head out to the Basics section of Lori's Web Graphics at http://loriweb.pair.com/basics.html .

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