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Ken, Great looking site, but slow loading. I am on a dialup, 21k most times. That's all I can get where I live and the photos took a fairly long time. I checked the sizes and they are quite large. For example, the one named "girl" on an interior page is over 17k right now. I brought it into Photoshop and with Save for Web medium setting, it went down to barely 9k. I have no idea what you are using, but that load time on every shot is enough to send someone like me to the next site. And there are more of us than you might imagine caught with no other options. There is a program called Image Optimizer that can be downloaded for a free trial, and is only $40 to buy. It even does regional compression on jpgs, which lets you keep important things crisp, and compress the heck out of other areas. Find it at http://xat.com. I have a write up on it in a tutorial at http://productiongraphics.com/column31/7.html. I love the band across the middle of the pages, with the photos, and her name, but you would get better than a 50% reduction in the total size if you sliced that up and saved some as gif and some as jpg. The photo and texture is really tough on gif file size. Plus, the blank areas would be darn near free, since you could reduce the number of colours severely. There is a free slicing program called Shoestring Picture Dicer at http://www.ziplink.net/~shoestring/dicer01.htm. It does a terrific job if you do not have that in your graphic software. I hope you do not mind me coming down on this, but you do have a great site there, and I would think that the site owner would want to make it an easy place to visit for a wide variety of people - including those with slow connections and low patience level. Wendy New Article 08/18: Photoshop 6 Working Review with Wendy Peck at http://productiongraphics.com Wendy Peck http://wpeck.com Marketing solutions through technology ----- Original Message ----- From: Ken Lanxner <klanxner(at)home.com> To: <hwg-critique(at)hwg.org> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 2:28 PM Subject: Therapist site Hello. I invite you to critique my newest site for a local family and child therapist. http://carolebunge.com There is a lot of text but the client insists every word is vital and can't be edited. :-) I am especially curious about reactions from AOL users as I have been unable to test with that browser. I know that there are image-compression settings that the average user (including my client) does not know how to change. Thanks for all your help. Ken --- Simplelives * Web Design http://simplelives.com Lives, the Biography Resource http://amillionlives.com
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