Computer Graphic Design Basics

There are some simple steps you should take when designing images for use on the web. One thing you have to take into consideration is that a good majority of the users that will visit your web page have a 56k connection speed or lower, so you should try to keep your page load times as low as possible. Personally I pretty much refuse to use images over 12k in size, unless I am showing work that wasn't meant for the web, such as computer generated landscape art, etc. If I do use images over 12k in design ( and I use that loosely ) I will chop the image into sections to help load times and keep individual sections loading quicker. This will allow the user to at least see something while the page is loading, instead of waiting for one gigantic image. I have seen some sites using Bitmap images ( BMP ), but I am totally against this type of format, as you can get much greater compression with GIF or JPG.

Click here to view some graphics I have created.