PNG or JPG

[PaulGrimshaw]

What do most people use now days for header images? I tend to stick with PNG, however, my current logo is close to 20k, but a reasonable version in jpg is only 14k. I thought PNG was just as good as jpg for sizing, or is something more inbetween bmp for quality and jpg for size?

Is there a way of shrinking PNG down?

Thanks,
Paul.

[Duncan Rounding]

png was intended to replace gifs, it is a lossless format. The quality is more easily controlled with jpgs.

[pinbrook]

i would use the smaller one regardless of extension

[jont]

If you have viewers with legacy browsers best to avoid PNG formats. You can generally achieve the same effects with GIF or JPEGS and maintain full browser compatability.

[PaulGrimshaw]

Cool - I have moved to jpg and made the image slightly smaller so its a bit more manageable now.

Thanks,
Paul.