This page is part of the WebCom Web Publishing Guide. It provides additional information about the use and purpose of various tags in an HTML document.

Graphical Images used As Bullets: The creator of a document has no control over what type of bullets the browser will use when a list is created. Some users attempt to get around this by using tiny graphical images instead of bullets. This will cause problems for accessors with slow connections. Less intelligent browsers will transfer the bullet image every time it appears on the page. Even if the images are small, the overhead required to re-connect each time can slow down the process significantly.

Formatting Text in a Definition If a definition used in a definition list requires more than a single section of text, use a paragraph (<P>) tag (or another space formatting tag, such as BLOCKQUOTE) to format the text instead of another <DD>. This will not affect the formatting of any following entries in your list.

The size of an image file (how much space it takes to store) is the key factor when determining how long a it will take to download, not how large the image appears on the page itself. For example, the black and white version of a color image, identical in the amount of space taken to display, will be significantly smaller in size, because it contains less information (a 256 color image requires eight times as much space to store as a two color image, although compression can alter this ratio).