title: Which format for small website images? GIF or PNG?
body: <p>When doing small icons, header graphics and the like for websites, is it better to use GIFs or PNGs?</p>
  
  <p>Obviously if transparency effects are required, then PNGs are definitely the way to go, and for larger, more photographic images I'd use JPEGs -  but for normal web "furniture", which would you recommend and why? It may just be the tools I'm using, but GIF files usually seem to be a bit smaller than a comparible PNG, but using them just seems so 1987.</p>