If you plan on sharing your digital camera photos on a webpage, please, please, PLEASE do not put full-size photos on your front page! Everyone does not have a high-speed Internet connection, and even those who do may not want to see a 3-megapixel image as soon as they visit your site.

Realize that even a 1 or 2-megapixel image contains more detail than what can fit on a computer monitor at once without scrolling, so your 3+ megapixel images are way too big to fit on a web page.

Use your imaging software to resample front-page images to a smaller resolution, say, 400x300 or better yet 200x150, then hyperlink the images to bigger photos in the 800x600 range. Let people know that clicking on your pictures will result in larger versions of the images being displayed.

Also, compress your photos using the JPG format. You may lose a little picture quality, but the images size will decrease dramatically if your photos were previously in an uncompress format, such as TIF, making them download and display quicker on visitors' machines.

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