Re: b....talk

In a message dated 98-01-31 12:55:35 EST, heim(at)dataphone.se writes:

<< am i alone in thinking that should be done something about?
 sure it looks good.but so does a 4meg file.....and we dont
 really wanna wait for it to load right??
  >>
  Astor,

  Well actually, some people *do* want to wait for it to load.  Different
viewers are looking for different things in a website.  Personally, if the
rest of the website look interesting, I generally *will* wait for a large
picture to load.  Granted, I'm a little aggravated if it wasn't worth the
wait, but it's not the sort of thing that I'm going to lose a whole lot of
sleep over, and it usually *is* worth the wait.  The web is about design and
expression, in both personal and commercial websites.  I have no problem with
waiting for lots of small graphics to load, so long as they are a part of the
overall design.  There are ways around the loading time... using cacheable
graphics for instance, that way you only have to wait for the original to
load, and then the others pop right up because they are already in your cache.
   By saying they are "hard as hell to read", what do you mean?  Can you point
out a specific URL so I may see an example of what you are referring to?
   And as for your question "am i alone in thinking that should be done
something about?", what do you propose we do?  Send out the Small Web Graphic
Police?  There are good designers, and there are bad... and lots in between.
Lists like this try to help the bad or mediocre learn from the good, but
there's only so much anyone can do.  (Unless you feel like paying for every
web designer out there to take some design and imaging classes, and even then,
some will choose to use small, hard to read graphics.) 

Red Haired Snipe
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