Re: Table Graphic

by David Moninger <David.Moninger(at)IslandTime.com>

 Date:  Fri, 05 Mar 1999 16:41:20 -0500
 To:  hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
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Hi Eve ...

My initial thoughts ......

 I would take the text, in the right hand column, out of the images, and
use the resulting graphic as a "cell background".    (Degrades nicely ...
just won't show your red accents when not supported).

Then add the text in html (you can specifiy font face to keep to at least
set off in arial / helvetica).

Especially with the links at the bottom ..... images for text seems to be
big band width waster ... I only use them when "really" needed.

If you insist on keeping text in the images, please assist those who are
sight challenged or surfing with images off by providing the text in the
ALT Tag.

Hope that helps,

david

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At 03:15 PM 3/5/99 , Eve Emshoff wrote:
>
>Hey there! I just created a site for the Hotter 'n Hell Hundred bike race
>we have here in Wichita Falls, Texas. I'm a bit concerned about the
>download time of a table graphic I created at
>http://www.trnonline.com/sites/hh100/index2.html, which clock at 127
>seconds or so on a 33.6 modem to complete. Would anyone care to take a
>crack at it or individual pieces to see if they can get download times less
>and still have it look good (ie. no pixelation)? A challenge for you!
>
>I took alot of these images into a neat graphics program called Web
>Graphics Optimizer 3.0 to test it out and it seems to do a nice job of
>compression, but I'm wondering just how low I could go on this graphic. I'm
>still working on it myself, to get the compression to max and still
>maintain clarity. Thought I might throw it your way and see what others
>come up with.
>
>Thanks,
>Eve
>
>
>
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