timjpriebe — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:29:25 +0000

Busy is right. Resizing within the HTML code (as opposed to using an actual image editor to resize the image) is never advisable. That's not to say I have not been guilty of it myself once or twice, but I avoid it whenever possible.

However, I think what Busy is saying, is that if you MUST resize with HTML code, bad distortion will appear if you do it to a GIF. Try a JPG or PNG instead. Even then, however, there will be quite a bit of loss of quality.

Busy — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:17:00 +0000

first up NEVER EVER resize images with the width and height elements - resize the image in an image program (ifranview is good for that, no distortion and is free).

The .gif will always look distorted at less than 3/4 size (is only 256 colours), convert into .jpg or .png and it will remain readable (if size premits)