While these sometimes can be hard to find or to generate, panoramic images that are wide, but not too tall, can be a particular advantage for web site design.

They allow for a good deal of space at the top of the pages of your web site for interesting images with visual appeal; and, at the same time, they leave a plenty of room for not only one, but two horizontal navigation bars (one above the image and one below the image) – all this while leaving plenty of room for text information that will appear under the image, but above the fold, minimizing the need for vertical scrolling.

Although panoramic images can be terrific on web pages, they can be difficult to find, simply because there is not a large demand for them on royalty-free images sites like photodisk or istock.  Still, if you purchase images that are large enough, you can crop sections of the large image for use in a new panoramic image that you have created yourself, as long as the dimensions of the original image are large enough.

Whatever image you choose, make sure it is a quality image that will represent you well!