Images for the web

[venta]

Somebody must know the answer to this... a quick google didn't turn up anything sensible.

I have an image which is rather large - a couple of thousand pixels square. Ideally, I want to pop it in the middle of a webpage.

Now, I could guess at a minimum monitor size, resize the image, and away we go. But I was thinking: surely there's something more clever I can do, whereby those with large monitors get a sizeable image, and those with tiny monitors do not.

Is there?

If not, are there any sensible guidelines on max image sizes, etc?

Comments

[chrisvenus]

Others have given quite a lot of technical detail but I will just mention as an aside that I consider it bad form to have the front page of your website as just being a big logo. I generally hope to have more useful information when I get to the front page. And I really hope that this isn't just a splash screen, those are so 1990s. Or maybe 2000s... They suck anyway. :)

Having said that I suspect you may not have a choice in design and are just being asked to implement something...

[venta.livejournal.com]

No, this is for home so I can do what I want (well, subject to the whims of the rest of my dance team, who still think comic sans and spinny gifs are the coolest things ever).

I wasn't going to have *just* the logo on the front page. There will be info and a navigation bar and stuff as well. I hope.