From: Milan Andric (mandric@eecs.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 11:27:34 PST
I would consider the homepages image maps, not web pages, but that's just
me. I think it's a really expensive tradeoff for a webpage.. if you have
no concern for bandwidth and no time to learn or create a page that uses
html and css then it works for you.. compression technology is your
friend.
my $.02
Milan
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> Ana,
>
> That's a nice home page design, but yes, one large image (232K) will
> take longer to download than several separately optimized images.
> Also, the rule of thumb has been to keep web pages total file size
> around 50K.
>
> I suggest you slice the large image in Fireworks (or ImageReady).
> Slicing allows you to optimize (size vs. quality) each slice file.
> You can even mix gifs and jpegs to get the best affect. This web site
> explains it pretty well.
> http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/weekly/aa000808a.htm
>
> -Sara
>
>
> >My turn:
> >This is a question for everyone. Unfortunately, I couldn't make it
> >to yesterday's meeting. I would have liked for others to see my
> >sites and comment:
> >
> >I was told that some of my web pages, particularly the index sites
> >(UG and Grad) are slow to come up. Since I was self-taught, I might
> >not have done something right (slicing) when designing it. Could it
> >be the larger image I designed in Fireworks and exported it to
> >Dreamweaver? I have Dreamweaver/Fireworks 3 package. I think I need
> >to slice it for faster loading, is this true? If so, how do I do
> >this? Unfortunately, I don't have problems viewing my sites, they
> >come up right away...so I have no idea what others are seeing with
> >older computers.
> >
> >Feel free to take a look and give me your feedback:
> >
> >UG - http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/
> >Grad - http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/graduate/index.html
> >
> >Ana
> >
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