HTML - How To Limit Image Size In Upload?

I want people to be able to upload some large image files (>5M each) to my site using an upload form - the usual
<input type="file" name="file" size="30" />
<input value="Upload" style="width: 60px" title="blah blah" type="submit" />

The first time someone tried it they said they couldn't upload their file. I then experimented and found that I couldn't upload files of more than about 2M size (2M worked, 2.5M and higher didn't work). Theserver seemed to give up after awhile and print out the error message that I put in for instances when the file didn't successfully upload.

Is there a size limit for files uploaded through HTML forms? If so, is there a way to increase this limit via the HTML script, or something else?

All:

Working to update a previously designed website.

Original design uses an <img> tag to create a top banner and another <img> tag
to create a side banner.

In each case there are mapped coordinates on each banner as links for the subsequent pages.

Basic page design is as follows:

Code:

<table>
   <tr>
      <td>
         <img usemap="Map1">
         <map name="Map1">
            <area>
            <area>
            <area>
         </map>
      </td>
   </tr>
</table>
<table>
   <tr>
      <td>
         <img name="Map2">
         <map>
            <area>
            <area>
            <area>
         </map>
      </td>
      <div>
         ***PAGE CONTENT***
      </div>
   <tr>
<table>

The challenge is that the [PAGE CONTENT] varries in length througout the site causing some pages
to be much longer or shorter than others.

This causes some inconsistencey in the relationship between the side banners height and the
page content.

In other words in some cases the banner is exceptionally longer than the page content and the
reader must scroll past significant "dead-space" before being brought to the lowest
mapped links in the side banner; or...

...in some cases the side banner is significantly shorter than the page content causing the
banner image to appear "poorly-fit" to the page design.

I considered altering the 2nd table instance in the above design so that the banner is carried
in a <td> tag that is adjacent to the page content and hopefully to allow the tag carrying the
image to size relative to the <td> tag carring the content....

Code:

<table>
   <tr>
      <td>
         <img usemap="Map1">
         <map name="Map1">
            <area>
            <area>
            <area>
         </map>
      </td>
   </tr>
</table>
<table>
   <tr>
      <td size="100%">
         <img name="Map2">
         <map>
            <area>
            <area>
            <area>
         </map>
      </td>
      <td size="100%" >
         <table>
            ***PAGE CONTENT***
         </table>
      </td>
   <tr>
<table>

The problem I've found with this is that as the content size causes the image to "flex", either
readablilty or image quality or both are effected, AND the mappings become inconsistent as the
image coordinates constantly change.

I've considered 2 solutions and am leaning toward one, but thought I'd post this and see if there
are better ideas I'm overlooking.

One idea was to add additional table rows inside the [PAGE CONTENT] table presumably creating a
"defalut" page size that would never be smaller than a standard for the side banner.
Problem: larger page sizes are still a problem as are the changing map coordinates

My other idea was to return to the original page design listed first above and again settle on
a standard side banner "height"... ...any page that was significantly longer than that height
would be split to 2 or more pages with a [NEXT>>] button at the bottom of the page navigating to
the additional content.
Problem: ...possible complications splitting content...
Benefit: ...consistent page design that allows a consistent side banner with navigable links...


Question for the group:
Does this sound reasonable?
Are there better alternatives I am overlooking?

THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ALL INPUT!!

Why are my 1000 pixels wide images are ok in FF and Chrome but seem to be 1.25% larger in IE?

Thanks

I don't know what part of this html is making the pictures in my table compressed width wise but if someone could help that would be fantastic.

Here is the code:



<style type="text/css">
body,table, td, li, p, div, textarea
{font-family:Tahoma; font-size:12pt; color:ffffff; font-weight:none;}

table, td { background-color:transparent; border:none; border-width:0;}
body{background-image:url(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...onlybkgd.jpg);
background-attachment:fixed;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:bottom right;
background-color:179f99; }

body
{scrollbar-face-color:179f99;
scrollbar-shadow-color:ffffff;
scrollbar-highlight-color:ffffff;
scrollbar-3dlight-color:ffffff;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color:ffffff;
scrollbar-track-color:87f5f3;
scrollbar-arrow-color:ffffff;}

.text {font-family:Tahoma; font-size:12pt;
color:000000; font-weight:none}

.redtext{font-family:Tahoma;
font-size:10pt; color:000000; font-weight:bold}

.redbtext{font-family:Tahoma;
font-size:10pt; color:000000; font-weight:bold}

.orangetext15{font-family:Tahoma;
font-size:10pt; color:000000; font-weight:bold}

.lightbluetext8{font-family:Tahoma;
font-size:10pt; color:000000; font-weight:bold}

.whitetext12{font-family:Tahoma;
font-size:10pt; color:000000; font-weight:bold}

.blacktext12{font-family:Tahoma;
font-size:10pt; color:000000; font-weight:bold}

.nametext{font-family:Tahoma;
font-size:10pt; color:000000; font-weight:bold}

.blacktext10{font-family:Tahoma;
font-size:10pt; color:000000; font-weight:bold; background-color:transparent}

strong, b {font-weight: bold; color:000000;}

a{font-family:Arial; font-size:12pt;
font-weight:normal;background-color:transparent;}
a:link{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a:active{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a:visited{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a:hover{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}

a.redlink{font-family:Arial; font-size:12pt;
font-weight:normal;background-color:transparent;}
a.redlink:link{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a.redlink:active{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a.redlink:visited{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a.redlink:hover{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}

a.navbar{font-family:Arial; font-size:12pt;
font-weight:normal;background-color:transparent;}
a.navbar:link{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a.navbar:active{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a.navbar:visited{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a.navbar:hover{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}

a.man{font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt;
font-weight:normal;background-color:transparent;}
a:link{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a:active{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a:visited{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
a:hover{color:000000;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial}
</style>

<style> table, tr, td {background-color: transparent; border: 0px; padding:2;}
table table {border: 2px;}
table table table {border: 16px dotted; border-color: 87f5f3; background-color: ffffff; background-image:url(); padding:0;}
table table table table{border: 0px;}
table table table table table,
table table table table table </style>

<style>
}
table table table table {border:0px;}
.{content:"Text and Link Properties";}
input {background-color:transparent !important;}
td, div, input, textarea, a, table td div div font,
div table tr td font {font-family:Verdana !important;}
td, div, input, textarea, table td div div font,div table tr td font {color:000000!important; font-size:10pt !important;}
.nametext, .whitetext12, .lightbluetext8, .orangetext15, .blacktext12, .blacktext12 span,.redtext, .redbtext, .blacktext10, .btext {color:000000!important; font-size:10pt !important;}
a {color:000000!important; font-size:10pt !important;text-decoration:none !important; text-transform:none !important; font-weight:normal !important; font-style:normal !important;}
a:hover {color:000000!important; text-decoration:none !important; text-transform:none !important; font-weight:normal !important; font-style:normal !important;}

<style type="text/css">
table table table
{width:400px; !important;}
table table td img {display:none;}
table table table td img {display:inline;}
table td td {width:0px;}
table {width:500px;}
table table {width:400px; !important;}
table table td {padding:3px;}
table table table td {padding:0px;}
table table table {width:400px !important; height:0px;}
td.text td a img {display: inline !important; }
table table table table table,
table table table table table td {
width:0px !important; padding:0px !important;}
td.text a img {width:130px }
td.text td.text a img {width:100px !important; }
td td td div strong {width:200px !important; display:block;}
.redblackfonttext14{font-weight:normal}
textarea, input, font, a, table, td, div, b {font-size:10pt !important;font-family:century gothic!important;font-weight:normal!Important;text-transform:lowercase}
span {font-size:10pt !important;font-family:century gothic!important;font-weight:normal!Important;text-transform:uppercase}
embed, object {display:inline}
.orangetext15, .blacktext10 {
display:block; width:300px; font-size:10pt !important;}
td.text td.text .orangetext15,
td.text td.text table table div {display:none;}
.thanks:mrk{.}
.mct{www.myspace.com/contacttables}
</style>




Yeah it's my myspace page. Sorry I'm such a dummy at html.....

On my web site, I have images displayed in table cells. I have the width set to 100% and the table itself set to 80% width. I do that so that if the browser window size is reduced, then the table's size is reduced to fit the window without having to scroll left or right. That works great, unless the browser window is larger than what I design the page on as in if the end user is using a higher resolution monitor. In that case, the images are stretched rather than reduced to again fill the page.

Code:

<table border="0" width="80%">
  <tr>
    <td width="50%">
      <img src="image1.jpg" width="90%">
    </td>
    <td width="50%">
      <img src="image2.jpg" width="90%">
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

Is there a way that I can set a maximum size for the images so that they don't get stretched above their intended resolution, while still using the width=xx% attribute to reduce the images to match the window?