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Well, the image is right there where it should be, but that is one large image. Then again, most of the images that come from digital cameras these days are that large (or larger). Should we just leave the image like it is and let visitors use the scroll bar? You’re going to see there are a couple of reasons why that’s a bad idea.

Let’s take a look at the image and the browser and see just how bad this situation is...

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There are no Dumb Questions

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Q: What’s wrong with having the user just use the scroll bar to see the image?

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A: In general, Web pages with large images are hard to use. Not only can your visitors not see the entire image at once, but using scroll bars is cumbersome. Large images also require more data to be transferred between the server and your browser, which takes a lot of time and may result in your page being very slow to display, particularly for users on dialup or other slow connections.

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Q:	Q: What’s wrong with having the user just use the scroll bar to see the image?
A:	A: In general, Web pages with large images are hard to use. Not only can your visitors not see the entire image at once, but using scroll bars is cumbersome. Large images also require more data to be transferred between the server and your browser, which takes a lot of time and may result in your page being very slow to display, particularly for users on dialup or other slow connections.

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Whoa! The image is way too large

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