What files will I get with my template?

All of our templates are delivered to you with all required html and graphic files.

The supplied HTML files can be edited in any editor package such as Dreamweaver, Microsoft FrontPage^®, or any one of the many available WYSIWYG editors.

Graphic image files are supplied to you in GIF & JPG format, as well as PSD format which is the proprietary file format of Adobe System's Photoshop program. 
PSD files are 'layered' images and can also be opened and read by other paint & graphic applications like Paint Shop Pro etc.

Some templates have animated Flash headers, so with these you get .swf and .fla files that require Macromedia Flash or another Flash file editor.
We strongly recommend that you have some experience with Macromedia Flash prior to buying a template that includes Flash elements.

See the following sections for a glossary of terms and file types..

• WYSIWYG
• HTML (.html)
• GIF (.gif)
• JPEG (.jpg)
• FLASH (.swf)
• PSD (.psd)

WYSIWYG
WYSIWYG is shorthand for 'What you see is what you get' and applies to the majority of web page editing packages. The layout you see onscreen is very close to what is seen when viewing the web page in a web browser.

HTML
In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the predominant markup language used for the creation of web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document - by denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on - and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects. HTML can also describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document, and can provide additional cues, such as embedded scripting language code, that can affect the behavior of web browsers and other HTML processors.

GIF
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is an 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format using a palette of up to 256 distinct colours from the 24-bit RGB colour space. The format was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability. It also supports animations and even allows a separate palette of 256 colours for each frame.

A GIF image employs lossless data compression so that the file size of an image may be reduced without degrading the visual quality, provided the image can be rendered with only 256 colours. This limitation makes the GIF format unsuitable for colour photographs (which are more commonly seen in the JPEG format) and other images with continuous colour, but well-suited for simpler images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of colour. Monochrome photographs can be represented well by the GIF format but still suffer from file size bloat due to the inappropriate compression technique.

JPEG
JPEG/JFIF is the format most used for storing and transmitting photographs on the World Wide Web. For this application, it is preferred to formats such as GIF, which has a limit of 256 distinct colours that is insufficient for colour photographs, and PNG, which produces much larger image files for this type of image. It is not as well suited for line drawings and other textual or iconic graphics because its compression method performs badly on these types of images, for which the PNG and GIF formats are more commonly used.

JPEG itself specifies only how an image is transformed into a stream of bytes, but not how those bytes are encapsulated in any particular storage medium. A further standard, created by the Independent JPEG Group, called JFIF (JPEG File Interchange Format) specifies how to produce a file suitable for computer storage and transmission (such as over the Internet) from a JPEG stream. In common usage, when one speaks of a "JPEG file" one generally means a JFIF file, or sometimes an Exif JPEG file. There are, however, other JPEG-based file formats, such as JNG, and the TIFF format can carry JPEG data as well.

PSD
PSD is the proprietary file format of Adobe System's Photoshop program. 
PSD files are 'layered' images and can also be opened and read by other paint & graphic applications like Paint Shop Pro etc.