photographs

By the way, thanks for answering my question about
streaming video.

I have a few photographs on my home page (4 to be
exact). I have made them as low quality files as I can
without sacrificing too much. They are about 35KB each.
I have DSL and even on my computer, the page takes 4 or 5
seconds to load. On slower computers, it's much worse.
Is there anything else I can do? They are not photos
that can be thumbnailed because they are part of the
overall graphic look of the page. Thanks.

Don't worry about it! That's not too bad and you sure don't want to ruin the
quality.
Eleanor

"Kat" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> By the way, thanks for answering my question about
> streaming video.
>
> I have a few photographs on my home page (4 to be
> exact). I have made them as low quality files as I can
> without sacrificing too much. They are about 35KB each.
> I have DSL and even on my computer, the page takes 4 or 5
> seconds to load. On slower computers, it's much worse.
> Is there anything else I can do? They are not photos
> that can be thumbnailed because they are part of the
> overall graphic look of the page. Thanks.
>

Hi Kat,
there's always a trade off between image quality and download time. 4
pictures at 35k is 140kb, plus whatever else you have on the page, I'd say
that size of page is going to lose a lot of traffic - especially among
dialup users. By all means present larger content within your site but on
your home page you normally have a couple of seconds to grab your users
attention before they click elsewhere hit back or whatever - this would mean
a max of about 30k.

Can we see the pictures themselves? It may well be possible to optimise them
further without too much loss of quality. Unless you're chasing a very
specialised market I don't think a 140k home page is a good idea

Jon
Microsoft MVP - FP

Kat wrote:
> By the way, thanks for answering my question about
> streaming video.
>
> I have a few photographs on my home page (4 to be
> exact). I have made them as low quality files as I can
> without sacrificing too much. They are about 35KB each.
> I have DSL and even on my computer, the page takes 4 or 5
> seconds to load. On slower computers, it's much worse.
> Is there anything else I can do? They are not photos
> that can be thumbnailed because they are part of the
> overall graphic look of the page. Thanks.

depending on what the photos are of you may be able to use them in .gif
format with a low # color palate. they can't be too complex or colorful to
get away with this.

If you have a url you could get a good opinion if you could get the file
size down without sacrificing the quality. some compression utilities are
better than others. ;-)

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"Kat" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:dd6701c40ecd$9959cbe0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> By the way, thanks for answering my question about
> streaming video.
>
> I have a few photographs on my home page (4 to be
> exact). I have made them as low quality files as I can
> without sacrificing too much. They are about 35KB each.
> I have DSL and even on my computer, the page takes 4 or 5
> seconds to load. On slower computers, it's much worse.
> Is there anything else I can do? They are not photos
> that can be thumbnailed because they are part of the
> overall graphic look of the page. Thanks.
>