This is Interesting: Free Magazines for Graphics designers and webmasters  


Home > Archive > Front Page > January 2005 > Page loading/graphics





You are viewing an archived Text-only version of the thread. To view this thread in it's original format and/or if you want to reply to this thread please [click here]

Author Page loading/graphics
emom

2005-01-31, 1:02 pm

I have a page that has over 20 logos for the products we represent and it
loads very slow. Is there a way to set this page to load the page with the
text and graphics in the background. I don't want our visitors to have to
wait for the information.
Murray

2005-01-31, 1:06 pm

Generally speaking you can 'preload images', but you get so much more bang
for the buck by working hard on optimizing the existing graphics. Try
these -

1. Make the logos as dimensionally small as possible without compromising
the 'message' they contain.
2. Resize the logos in your graphics editor BEFORE placing them on the
webpage, rather than linking to a larger image and then resizing it on the
page.
3. Reduce the number of colors before exporting images as GIF files.
4. Reduce the quality of images before exporting as JPG files. I have
found that you can go as low as 50% quality with some JPG images and have no
serious cosmetic issues.

If your logo images were no more than 1.5-2K each, having 20 on a page is
not such a big problem.

--
Murray

"emom" <emom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3DFC7876-D820-479B-96F1-43C065A2DA06@microsoft.com...
>I have a page that has over 20 logos for the products we represent and it
> loads very slow. Is there a way to set this page to load the page with
> the
> text and graphics in the background. I don't want our visitors to have to
> wait for the information.



Sponsored Links


Copyright 2003 - 2008 forum4designers.com  Software forum  Computer Hardware reviews