How complex is this table to prevent rendering in HTML?

By turning it to an image, you dumb it down so far that search engines are blind to it.

CBAU_123 wrote:

...but when I upload it to the web the resolution is terrible...

It should be apparently terrible while you are working in Photoshop. If the poor resolution only appears after you upload, there is much more to the story that needs to be explained.

Well, you are leaving out a lot of info.

a: how are you saving it in Photoshop? What file type/compression amount, etc.

b: how are you uplaoding it - where are you uploading it - are you uploading JUST the image, or are you uploading the image within an .html document?

One thought, if you are JUST uploading it as an image, then trying to view it in a browser, if the image is larger than the viewport of the browser, some browsers will automatically rezie the image to fit visually into the viewport. More than likely, this resizing could be causing image distortion. Imagine it like when you zoom in/out in Photoshop - (unless you are using the accelerated graphic gui option in PS preferences), any zoom level outside of 25%, 50%, or 100% will cause visual distortion.

Give a link to where you have uploaded the image (or whatever you are talking about). Like I said, there are other things to consider as to why this is happening.

By turning it to an image, you dumb it down so far that search engines are blind to it.

That's really relative to the actual content inside the table. If the table content is arbitrary to the design and used more as a visual element, then it wouldn't matter if search engines can index it.

It is just a plain bad idea to insert table and text as a bitmap.

That's not necessarily true either. Again, it just depends on what the actual table content is. I've used Excel to visually format text, export as .pdf, then placed into Photoshop many times (but that's when I was just creating a graphic).

I'm sure we all agree if the table content is valuable data, it needs to be editable text, but depending on the end result desired, rastered text can be a reasonable solution.

You'll note that I said bitmap.  That is not the same a pdf.

If you compare the image from the web link you provided to the actual link of the image itself, you can tell a difference in quality (although the characters are still a little fuzzy. There must be some other parameters you have that are conflicting. Check your CSS too. Try inserting the image into a blank html document, upload that, and see what your results are. Like I said, I think the answer is what I mentioned above.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-tfmo1w9zygo/T3OmA9lNbmI/AAAAAAAAJWY /cJ7xLaZn-jk/s640/rubies.jpg

You'll note that I said bitmap.  That is not the same a pdf.

I don't think I said anything about bitmap compared to .pdf. I didn't think anyone would still be using a bitmap to begin with.