IWeb Album preview looks awful

I use all my albums from iPhoto, when I am in iWeb all the album preview look great. When I go look online at the published site all the album preview show pixelation, looks terrible. when I click on the album to view it it looks great same quality that I have in iPhoto. I did not have this problem before the upgrade.
What am I doing wrong?

Whoa! They look terrible in the larger mode. It may be that a smaller sized version is being used for the skimming album and enlarging it that big pixelates it tremendously. There are four image files for each photo in an album, micro.jpg, thumb.jpg. mip.jpg and web.jpg in increasing size from 4 KB to 68 KB. The web is the largest and generally is scaled to 800 x 640 or so.
In my test album the file that is used for the skimming album is the mip.jpg and is around 512 x 348 or so in size. I do see degradation of the larger skimmed inage but nowhere near what you're seeing. My test album is set to have no photos available for download.

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