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While it may be overlooked with high bandwidth connections becoming ever so common, it still is important to optimize an image. If you visitors can’t load your web site quickly, they will leave because it is easy to find another website to look at.

Reduce image sizes to the size it will appear at on the web page!

There are two reasons to do so: reduce file size and downsized images look bad in web browsers.

• You can save bandwidth by optimizing your images to the size they will appear on the web page. If you want, you can create a thumbnail image for the web page, and link to a larger version.
• While the Safari web browser is good at reducing images, web browsers like Internet Explorer and Firefox don’t do that well at showing images at small sizes than they are made for (it can make the image look really bad, trust me).

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If you don’t want your readers click off the web page to view a large image, there is a cool solution to this problem. Litebox is a script that allows you to pop up an image in the web page to show a large version of the image. The script isn’t that large of a file size and can improve the