🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi All,
 
  First of all, with respect to WWW page design, what limitations should I 
keep in mind (IE. file formats, colours etc) when creating graphics and 
textures for the web?  Also, how does Netscape (and others) handle a web page 
with 2 16.7 million colour palette JPEG's and a series of 256 colour gif 
buttons?  Does it remap all of them to match a single colour palette of the 
same depth as the system it's being accesed with?  If that is the case, is it 
best to stick with 256 colour (or less) gifs all with the same palette to make 
graphics more efficient?  I've seen a web page (designed by a friend) in which 
the individual images look spectacular but once on the page together, they 
look grainy.
 
  Second, are there any programs (either stand alone or as features within 
another program)or tables to convert Pantone colours to RGB?  At work I tried 
selecting a Pantone colour in CorelDraw 4.0 as a fill colour, then I changed 
from the Pantone palette to an RGB palette and recorded the RGB values.  Then, 
I took the colour values over to our SGI and the resulting colour was nothing 
like the colour I was looking for.
 
  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Glen Mead - gmead@io.org