divide a photo

[Guest]

Is it possible on frontapge to divide a phot up - it is too large to load
alone so I though I would cut it into different sections - or do I have to do
this on Photo shop pro or something similar?
regards,
Jacquie

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[E. T. Culling]

FP can't do that.... You have to carefully resize and optimize your photo in
an image editing program. Just how large is it? If I knew that I could give
better advice. (How wide, how tall and file size.)
Eleanor

 

[Guest]

Hello,
thanks for replying so quickly.
The photo is a piste map - it is 665X484 pix and 150kb - I have already
optimised it so I don't think I can get it any smaller - there is only taxt
on teh page - explianing the map - will this map be too large or should I
chop it up. I have Paint shop pro to do any 'fiddling'
regards,
Jacquie

 

[E. T. Culling]

150kb is not too much for a map like that especially if there is little else
on the page. People will expect a map to load more slowly.
Eleanor

 

[Murray]

Cutting it into pieces won't make it load appreciably faster, and may
actually retard its appearance, depending on network congestion.

 

[Wally S]

I wouldn't even consider that to be big, but if you are worried about the
visitor losing patience, you can put a little note at the top of the page
saying something like, "This page may load slowly because of a large map."
If people are forewarned, then they don't become impatient. But 150 kb
should not take a lot of time.

Wally S

 

[Murray]

I would. It's already 4 times heavier than the whole page should be.

 

[Wally S]

Yeah, but a photo is a photo. It's going to be bigger than a text page. I
sometimes put heavier photos than that on my site, but if the visitor knows
that the page will take a long time to load, then he does not mind waiting,
especially if he considers the photo worth waiting for. I have a lot of big
photos on my site, but the viewers like the photos, and I have never once
received a complaint.

Wally S

 

[Murray]

and I have never once received a complaint.

It's not likely you would, really. They would just leave the site. But
having those heavyweight things on interior pages is usually not so
problematic since the visitor has already made an intellectual committment
to your content. It's the home page where it is the problem.

 

[Wally S]

They didn't leave the site. I got many compliments from readers for the
photopages. Nothin's free in this world. You wanna look at a big photo on a
website? You gotta wait for it to load.

Wally S

 

[Murray]

You don't know if they left or not.... You only hear from the ones who
stayed.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

The only way to really know, is to study the raw log files for the site.

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