The use of images within HTML pages on web sites has greatly enhanced the user's online experience. Graphical images can be implemented as virtually any kind of output such as photographs, drawings, animations and video clips. These images can also be linked to other sources such as other HTML pages on the site or remotely to URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) around the world.

It is this dynamic possibility that enables the Internet to provide a (hopefully) heightened experience for the user that propels the WWW as a communication medium into a new era of information discovery, accessibility and dissemination.

This website will examine the use of images and the formats that can be used to display graphics in photographic, animation (Shockwave and GIF) and image - manipulated GIF and JPEG form.

With the use of bandwidth - intensive graphics, various forms of compression algorithm are required and these will be examined along with techniques for handling color data and also video as a continuous graphics medium.

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