Newbie question, in a bit of a muddle!

Hi,
I'm new to my company and also Dreamweaver (and photoshop),
and we're having some problems with our eshots (namely the file is
too big). Basically what i've been taught to do is construct the
eshot in Photoshop with our prodyct images, logo etc, and then
create a html in Dreamweaver by creating tables and inserting
images into the tables and then sourcing and linking them. I'm just
wondering whether this is common practise or not.
I'm also struggling with how to make our e shots smaller in
size (under 20k). The last one we did was 640 x 1164 made up of 4
rows. Obviously i'm not saving the iamges the right way in
Photoshop (at the moment our web images are 72 dpi and the smallest
ones are 155 x 155 pixels) but as there's no one else here who
knows what they're doing with it it's very difficult to judge
what's right and what's not! When i'm "saving as" a jpeg, do i put
it on a 'low' quality and also change the size to the lowest (14.4
kbps) ???
Thanks in advance!

This may help you
http://inobscuro.com/tutorials/read/35/
--Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com
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> Hi,
>
> I'm new to my company and also Dreamweaver (and
photoshop), and we're
having
> some problems with our eshots (namely the file is too
big). Basically
what
> i've been taught to do is construct the eshot in
Photoshop with our
prodyct
> images, logo etc, and then create a html in Dreamweaver
by creating tables
and
> inserting images into the tables and then sourcing and
linking them. I'm
just
> wondering whether this is common practise or not.
>
> I'm also struggling with how to make our e shots smaller
in size (under
20k).
> The last one we did was 640 x 1164 made up of 4 rows.
Obviously i'm not
saving
> the iamges the right way in Photoshop (at the moment our
web images are 72
dpi
> and the smallest ones are 155 x 155 pixels) but as
there's no one else
here who
> knows what they're doing with it it's very difficult to
judge what's right
and
> what's not! When i'm "saving as" a jpeg, do i put it on
a 'low' quality
and
> also change the size to the lowest (14.4 kbps) ???
>
> Thanks in advance!
>

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