resizing pics using ReST

[volvoguy]

Good stuff Alexander. Thanks!

I have one thing I'd like to add to that. While it's possible to
"scale" an image with wiki or HTML, it's not really the ideal thing to
do. This may be common knowledge, but I'll do a quick explanation for
anyone that doesn't know.

If you upload an image that is 640x480 and use wiki or HTML to display
it at 64x48, the job of resizing is left to the browser, and image
manipulation is not something a web browser was designed to do well.
In addition to questionable image quality, the visitors to the page
will still need to download the much larger file, and THEN the browser
resizes it. Obviously if you only need the smaller image, it's a waste
of bandwidth and takes a lot more time to download the larger image.

If I've completely confused anyone, or you have any other web/graphic
related questions, feel free to contact me!

Also, along the lines of Alexander's post about the icons, here are a
few places that you can get free (or really cheap) royalty-free
images. I don't know how useful they'll be for documentation, but
they're fun nonetheless. :-)

www.imageafter.com - free and royalty-free

www.istockphoto.com - cheap (prices start at $0.50) and royalty-free

Aaron