QUALTHWAR said:
Okay, i have a couple more questions: When i create a logo for my site, i save it as a jpg. You know how the image quality decreases when you use the jpg on your homepage? I remember you can really see it if you have red in the image. Anyway, even though i save the jpg at 100% quality, you can still see the quality reduced. What is the best extention to save the image as? gif, bmp, jpg, what? Or do i just need to try something else when i save it as a jpg?
.bmp files are the highest quality images and uncompressed, which unfortunately, gives them large file sizes. So you could do a .bmp for it if you really want, but check the size. Do you really want it taking up that much disk space on your server, using that much bandwidth for the one image or have the visitors wait for the thing to download (mainly users on 56k of course).
The differences between .jpg and .gif as I understand it, is that .gif's are 256 colours and .jpg's are whatever colour depth that they are saved as. And of course, the .jpg's are compressed - both have a comparable file size. Of course the .gif file can also be animated and have transparencies (sp?) But I would say that it heavily depends on what exactly the image is. For instance, if I was putting a photo on a site, I would go .jpg - high or low compression - gifs dont look good for these because they kill the colours off too much, even at 256, they just dont look the same, and what if you go lower to compress it some. However if it is a screenshot of say, a plain windows graphic or of for instance the post reply form, I would go gif. this is because it is a simple uncomplicated image that the colour loss does not matter a great deal on and the gif format actually (I believe) represents it better. This is because if you save it as a .jpg you get these ugly swirls that are added in on compression. I also notice this when I see bad looking screenshots and wonder why they did not use gif. This is what I believe you mean by the image quality decreases on jpg images, you can really see it if there is red.... Hang on a sec and I will post an example below for you, hopefully.
QUALTHWAR said:
My other question: I use a linksys rounter and i think this is why i can't upload my new homepage to the server. I can temporarily bypass the router, but when i tried it without shutting everything down and rebooting, it didn't work. Is there a way to get these files to upload?
I tried doing several things like make sure my win xp firewall was shut off, disabling a bunch of stuff on my rounter, but nada. Just so you know, i am able to connect to the server, but when i try to upload a file, it fails and logs me out.
As long as you have the ftp ports (20 & 21 - Bangout one is for data the other connection from memory, not sure of the word) open so that the info is going between the points I wouldnt imagine that the router could be the problem. I have found however that some programs I have used connecting to various web servers dont seem to work for some. For instance if you are just using the iexplorer, or explorer whatever it is ftp thing to try and send / recieve files, I can say that I have tried to use that and gotten horribly annoyed. So I got programs like ftp commander, cuteftp and aceftp. In turn I have found that I think it was commander had a heart attack on windows servers, but worked well with unix, whereas the others seemed to do well with either. Explorer died a hidious death on either. Of course it depends and all. So maybe try a different program. Two of the ones that I have mentioned - ftp commander and aceftp have free licenses (I would assume they still do?).
^ forget all that ftp stuff, youre last reply made it redundant. However I types it all, so dam it I am posting it.
Hope I am making sense
