To display a picture, most browsers require the picture to be stored in one of the following Web-standard formats:
Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpg) supports 24-bit true color.
Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) supports 8-bit, 256-color images. NetObjects Fusion also supports GIF 89, a format for transparency, interlacing, and animation, as well as animated .gifs. An animated .gif file contains multiple images that a browser plays in sequence, adding movement to your pages without browser plug-ins.
Portable Network Graphics (.png) supports any color-depth image. To view .png images with Netscape Navigator 4.0, the PNG Live 2.0 plug-in is required; Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 does not require a plug-in. Earlier versions of both browsers require PNGLive 1.0 to view the image.
If you try to place a picture that is in .bmp, .pcx, .pct, or .psd format, NetObjects Fusion offers to convert it to .gif or .jpg format. NetObjects Fusion copies the file, converts the copy, and stores the copy in the site’s \Assets folder.
If you are using Windows 98, you can use the Picture tool to place Flashpix (.fpx) images. You can also use the Media Plug-in tool, as described in Inserting Other Types of Files to place an .fpx file in Windows 98.