Original Country Clipart
by Lisa
Help
for AOL Users
Are the Graphics you
Download turning into
.ART files? instead
of .GIF files?
Or into .jpg files without a transparent background?
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SHOULD LOOK on your webpage. This is a transparent .gif file. |
This WAS a transparent .gif file but it was saved incorrectly as a .jpg file instead of a .gif file. |
All my web graphics have transparent backgrounds and are created in .gif format. Your settings in your AOL program can actually change the format of my graphics when you try to save them and that's not good because they need to be transparent .gif files in order to look right on your webpage and in order to have transparent backgrounds with no white square background around them.
Here's what to do to get rid of this problem!
In your AOL (Version 4 or 5),click on "My AOL" then click on "Preferences"
then click on "WWW" then click on the "Web Graphics" tab
then make sure the box that says
"Use Compressed Graphics" is NOT checked!
In your AOL (Version 6 or 7),click on Settings, then Preferences..
You'll see a screen with several options.
From the left hand column, find "Internet Properties"
and then the Web Graphics Option. Select "Never Compress Graphics" and click OK.
Then, you MUST "Clear Your Cache Files" from the AOL browser or nothing will change and this problem won't be fixed. Your AOL browser will show you the exact same page and you'll be downloading the graphics as .art files still because it will show you the webpages from it's memory. To Clear your Cache Files, In AOL Version 4: Go to 'MyAOL', preferences, advanced, purge cache. Close your AOL browser, disconnect, then re-connect and your cache will be cleared.
Now re-load my webpages and re-download all the graphics as .gif files!
(if you do not re-download all the graphics this will not work)
Here is another
helpful tip from Yvonne
who obtained the
help of an online AOL tech.
"Here
is what I had to do......I had to: go to Start, click on Settings,
then Control
Panel,
and then click on Internet Options. From the "General" tab, I had
to
go
down and click "delete files". Once that was done and I went back
to your
site,
the ".gif" format was then offered as a save option. Basically the
tech
said that "clearing the cache" can be a problem if it gets too full."
Thanks
Yvonne! I'm sure others will really appreciate your help.
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It's not a good idea
to ever use .art files on your website.
You may see all the
graphics just fine,
but people who use
Netscape for their browser
CANNOT see .art files!
They just show up
as a broken image that looks like this:
It makes your webpages
look terrible.
Hope this helps!