Slashing image file sizes in FrontPage

As every Web designer knows, the size of your image files can significantly increase page download times. One way to reduce download times, of course, is to reduce the size of your images. But that means more than just resizing the image in FrontPage Editor or FrontPage 2000's Page view. When you drag an image's size handles to make it smaller, you're not actually decreasing the file size. Instead, you're simply reducing the "window" through which the file is viewed. (That's why the estimated download time indicator at the bottom of the FrontPage window doesn't change.) Once you've resized the image, then, you need to click the  Resample button on the Image toolbar (the Pictures toolbar in FrontPage 2000). Doing so will reduce the actual file size to match the image's new proportions. In most cases, it will also significantly improve the

image's appearance.

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