flatscreen monitors and graphics

I have a couple of sites that I did and have tested them on many different computers, PC's and Macs and everything looked the way it should. However, recently, I was in the office of a potential client and used her computer with WinXP and a Flatscreen monitor to show her some of my work. Well, to my surprise, some of the detailed graphics looked like I exported at a very low quality setting! There were fringes and shadows around the detail of some of the graphics, very awful looking. I don't understand how this is happening when it looked great on a plethora of other computers. I always make sure to check on many different platforms. I don't know if this had anything to do with it, but I was using her AOL account. is there some setting that "degrades" the graphics of websites by default. I wish I thought to compare my sites with well known ones to see if the same problem existed but in a panic, I quickly closed the browser in AOL!

Anybody have anything like this happen? Does the AOL interface have a setting that degrades the level of graphics to save on file size (but make the graphics look like crap)? Does the use of a flatscreen monitor have anything to do with it? I would hate to have to redesign graphics.....but I will, of course, if I have to! Just so you know, the graphics are high quality! There shouldn't be a problem.

HELP, HELP HELP!! LOL PANK, ANYONE, ANYBODY!

I just got a new flat screen and the images are crisper but don't degrade the quality...Try using IE or Opera?

I'll give it a shot, but it shouldn't be doing that in ANY browser, I just don't get it. This makes me think that there might be a setting I need to toggle off in the AOL interface. I'll be there on Monday and I'll see if I can't figure it out. In the meantime, if anybody has any advice.

I used IE in the AOL interface. But as I said before, it shouldn't be doing that at all.

What is the make and model of your flatscreen? Is this the slim version? We have a slim flatscreen at work and everything looks different on it.

Don't know the make or model but it is a slim screen. So you know what I'm talking about then.....phewwwww! lol.... Now I just have to figure out what the hell to do to make the graphics look better than they did.

here's the URL for the site I'm working on now for a client. The basic layout is up, but it doesn't have content. This one looked really bad on the flatscreen. Tell me how it looks to you if you could. I know this is not usually the place to post sites, but considering my circumstances, I'm sure the moderaters understand why I'm posting it here!

here's the url:
http://home.twcny.rr.com/mysticalride/saviusa/home.htm

Any advice or observations appreciated.

The problem is linked with AOL...

First OAL broswer work in a prety strange way eityh images... all images are converted to a single fomat (an oal format called .art)... Alos On the internet OAL kepp all visited page in a cache on its own server (I belive they do this for speed...

Even with all this its should not be a huge problems...

Check out the book: Designing Web graphics by LLynda Weinman you will find more infoon this...

Weird. I just looked at it at my house and now I'll head into work and check it out. Tell you if it looks different.

Thanks very much for the feedback. I have an older version of the Lynda book and I'll see if there is a section on it in that version. I didn't think of that!

Thanks for the multiplatform check! You're saving me some time with your report, I very much appreciate it!

I anxiously await your observations!

By the way, Marble, did it look ok at your house? I forgot to ask you that...