RE: Frustrated: Limited Space, Many Graphics

it seems to me like 80% of the work has already been done - the images. if
you want the site to work you need to break it down to a dozen or more
pages. if they were templated such an activity wouldn't be more than a
couple of hours work. although you'd be going that bit extra, the actual
space of the site would be basically the same, the work would be similar,
the site would look better, and you'd be able to say how you broke your
rules for the good of the client, at no extra cost *shrug*. well maybe anyway.

Kyle

At 06:58 PM 2/6/99 -0500, jim barchuk wrote:
>Hello Eve!
>
>> arranged here pages into "Animals," "Perfume Bottles," "Jewelry," etc.
>> However, she wanted MANY many graphics from her catalog scanned in, and
>> consequently, there are many graphics filling up each page. 
>> 
>> I've compressed these as much as I think I can (72 pixels, gif at 6 bits,
>> most are around 150 pixels width max), and then thumbnailed them. What
>> concerns me is that Frontpage reports loading time is up to 1339 seconds on
>> the larger pages, and 330 seconds on the smaller pages (the main page is no
>> problem). 
>
>Time means squat, only file size has any meaning.
>
>My first intuitive guess is that these images should not be GIF, they
should be
>JPG. 
>
>My second intuitive guess is that there are simply 'too many' images in each
>page, that there needs to be more division of categories. Sure, you can fit
>three thousand thumbnails in 'one HTML page' but that doesn't mean it's the
>right way to do it.
>
>> B. How do you, as designers and artists, handle yourself when you feel that
>> while you'd done your best with the resulting project, you could have done
>
>There is a lot less art and a lot more craft going on in web page design.
>Tradeoff is -all-; ask any engineer.
>
>Have a :) day!
>
>jb
>
>-- 
>jim barchuk
>jb(at)jbarchuk.com
>
>
>

				    Kyle Matthews
				    website designer, community activist
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