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For pictures taken with a camera that uses film

Take it to be developed. Your developing choices are:

1. Traditional film and print. The good thing about this choice is that you have a negative, from which you can make a print to any size you need. The bad aspect of this is that the print from the negative still is not in digital format, and if you scan the print, you are one generation in quality away from the original image.

2. Traditional film and print and have the images scanned and stored on a floppy (Picture Disk). This is a better choice because now you have a floppy disk that contains your images. Plunk the diskette into your PC and you're off. The only downside to Picture Disks is that the images are small in resolution (dimensions on screen), so if the images are large enough for your Web site, then peachy. If not, you need to scan the prints or have the negatives made into a PhotoCD.

3. PhotoCD. Very popular and very cheap, considering the quality of the images. Whites are whiter on a PhotoCD, and everything looks colorful and attractive because Kodak scans the negatives—bringing your image one generation closer to the source of the image. The downside to PhotoCDs are that they take a while to get processed (from three days to weeks), and you only have five choices of image size on the CD to use. And only the smallest size is appropriate for posting on the Web.