If you are including photographs in your web site, it is ideal to have them on a digital camera. You can upload the pictures to your computer and then email them to your web designer. Your other option would be to save them to a CD and give that to your web designer.
What if you have some great photos but they are just regular photographs? Well of course you can scan them with fairly good results. Unfortunately this means more time spent on getting them processed.
You could ask your web designer to scan them for you. Since this will create extra work, it is expected that your web designer will charge you an additional fee. They might charge $10 to $20 per photograph or they might charge you $50 to $75 per hour for the time it takes.
In order to save yourself some money, you might want to scan the photos yourself. Hopefully you have your own scanner for this purpose. If you do not, it is likely that a friend or family member does.
When scanning your photographs try to be aware of a few concerns. It is best to scan the photos at a high resolution. Resolution for printers and scanners are measured in dpi or dots per inch. I would suggest scanning at a resolution of at least 300 dpi. This will produce a fairly large file size. I would also suggest scanning the photos in the right directions. This is minor but will save some time from editing the photo later.
Save the pictures in a folder on your computer. I would then make a copy of this entire folder. If you are going to try to edit the pictures yourself, work on the second folder. Then if you botch something up you have the original copy in your first folder.
When your images are put on your web site they will be compressed and resized. At the 300 dpi resolution the pictures could easily be several MB's. After cropping, editing, resizing and compressing, the files will probably be reduced to under 100 KB. This will allow visitors to your site to download the pictures in a reasonable amount of time.
If you would like to learn more, do a search on the internet. In particular, you might want to visit www.scantips.com.