photographs

[Kat]

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.

 

[E. T. Culling]

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

 

[Jon Spivey]

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

 

[chris leeds]

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. ;-)