This is a picture of sunset on Phuket Island in southern Thailand. A very beautiful place to live and work. This graphic is fairly large. If I'd put up the original file it would be much larger. The original picture is 682 wide and 348 high. The one you see above has been reduced to 25% of height and 25% of width. This picture is "clickable", if you click on it, you can look at the full size (your browser should have cached it, so you won't have to wait for it to relaod).
Height and width tags should be used on graphics, because they keep the browser from needing to resize the page as it loads pictures. But they should not be used to resize the pictures!
This
is another picture, also a Phuket sunset, it has been resized with no care whatsoever
for the original picture. Nothing has been removed, it has simply been distorted
by the resizing (again with height and width tags). I haven't seen this done quite
as ofen, but I have seen it. Usually this trick is pulled by someone who has no
idea how to edit a graphic, but does know how to drag the corners of a picture
in a "WYSIWYG" HTML editor such as Front Page. It's one of the reasons
people should not use that type of editor, especially to make a business oriented
web page.
You may also click on this one to see the picture as it is.