- From: The ZargMeister <zargon@zargon.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 06:50:25 -0400
- To: Barry Kopulos <Barry.Kopulos@wininfonet.mb.ca>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
Barry, Here are some thoughts on your questions... BTW... it would be helpful when asking these type of questions to note the platform you are working with. If I tell you how to do this Stuff on the SGI and you are using NextStep then all I may say will be a waste of time. It only takes one more line to add this important information. >I have a hoempage on the web and would like to put osme gifs on it and >want to know if it is in anon-gif format currentl what specs should I use >to convert it. I mean how many colors shoud it be in 16/64/256 and what >size pixels shoud it be. Also should it be >interlaced/non-interlaced,transparency. I always use 256 colors for any image that has millions and I still want to look good to the universe. If you are working in RGB you need to convert the image to INDEXED COLOR and then specify how you want it done... dithered...absolute etc. I recommend using Photoshop to do the major part of the work. ( I am using a Mac) and GraphicConverter is the best utility to convert Photohsop GIF images to Transparent & or Interlaced .GIF images. I haven't heard about the "GIF Construction Kit"... sounds like it is probably a bit complicated... ??? > >What woudl be the best program to use to help me get my gifs uponto the >page. I have the GIF construction kit,graphcis workshop-heard about >painter anyone know of this one? I am not sure what you mean about getting the GIFs up onto the page? The traditional way of insuring that the GIFs are there is to ftp them to your directoy on your server (or your Providers Server) and with the proper HTML references they will indeed show up.. and of course be really cool. If you havn't already done it I suggest keeping all of your file types in separate directories. For example: /www This is your main Web Stuff Directory (This is also where you want to put your main page) index.html Most servers will defualt to the (index.html) as the "Home" page. So you can use an abreviated address like <www.zargon.com> /html I use a html subdirectory to keep all of my additional HTML documents and further sub-directories to keep things organized by subject. /images This of course would be where you put all of your images whether they be jpeg, GIF or other. /sounds If this all seems a bit remedial... so be it... perhaps there is someone else out there who forgot what prudent file management is and wil be jolted back to sanity by this part of this post. There is nothing worse than trying to loacate a file in a list of 200 other files that are all strewn about in one directory. That's all folks, The ZargMiester ======================================================= Providing the "Zargoverse" with more excitement than most people can handle. ======================================================= "Whatever you believe to be true...is true...For You!" Circa 1995 Steiph Zargon ================ < http://www.zargon.com > __________________________________________________________
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