This is shown within the HTML document with text surrounding it, rather than the graphic being shown in a different window. Remember that pictures are nice, but it can take a long time to download and people viewing your Homepage might not have the time to wait. Be careful not to use pictures that are to large. HTML Thumbnail Pictures A thumbnail picture is a small size picture that is used to click on and produce a larger more detailed picture. You probably know by now, pictures can be extremely large files and require a long time to download over the Web.
Thumbnails provide a fast and convenient method to preview what a large picture looks like.
If the person viewing your homepage likes your small picture and wants to see more, he or she can just click on the small picture and the large picture will be downloaded. Most Photo Scanners come with easy to use Graphic Converter software. Lets look at one more example thumbnail picture. Then I changed the picture to a Thumpnail picture and it became a 8k size file. My online loading time went from 20-30 minutes to under a minute.