I pay for web site hosting/domains/etc., and most of the places there are commercial websites, so that's not so much an issue for those who do the same. Your hosting contract will generally contain that information. Free web sites sometimes have rules about commercial image hosting, but they tend to experience so many limitations in terms of functionality that I'd be surprised to see vendors using them for their image hosting. You'd be over your usage limit with most such sites within days anyway, I'd think. Also bear in mind that there are a lot of complaints about people who do this at all -- it can be murder on dialup connections. (Personally, I try for a happy medium, and fully accept that I probably annoy everyone in the process. chuckle) Promo images are one of those things I've seen a lot of complaints about in general, and a lot of them ask for one thing which someone else complains about a moment later once it happens. (Just like almost everything else. grin) It's hard to say if there will ever be any "standard" presentation because of that, and the number of factors to consider. There's still a difference on various monitors, yes. I noticed that a lot of things looked fabulous on my friend's monitor that hadn't even caught my eye on the graphics beast at home. Admittedly, I didn't look at any of my own stuff on it, so I can't really say how it compared.

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It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye texture.