AOL Image Compression

If you are viewing Basketware.com or any other web site through AOL's browser, you are images may be blurry because the images are compressed. AOL's software is set by default to compress .jpg or .gif  images further into their own ".ART" format, resulting in degraded image quality.  The intent of the compression is to speed up page loading, by making the images on the web page smaller in size. This would be a great idea, except 98% of all web page graphics are already compressed (by the authors who create the images), and recompressing them saves little space, while greatly decreasing image quality. To view the images as intended, follow the instructions below to turn this off.

To deactivate this setting in AOL 6.0, go to "Settings" in the menu at the top of your screen, then choose preferences.

Select Internet Properties (WWW):



Press the "Web Graphics" tab.
Click on "Never compress graphics."
Any new images you view after this should display at their best quality.
To improve the quality of images you have previously downloaded, you can delete your Temporary Internet files.
On the "General" tab, under the heading "Temporary Internet Files," click the "Delete Files" button.
Click "OK."

Attention AOL Users:
AOL caches or stores web pages on their own servers to speed up internet access for their millions of customers. But when you, the AOL user, click on a web page, you are unaware that you are actually seeing a stored page on the AOL server and not a "live" web page. If you experience problems, minimize your aol window and go to your "start" menu, "programs", and select "internet explorer".  Type www.basketware.com in the address menu and hit go.  This will allow you to surf our website independent of the AOL cache.

 
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