Re: annoying websites

The right *sort* of image compression is important. gif for things which can
be represented by a few colours, and which have (ideally) large areas of
unbroken single colour (which compresses very small). For jpeg, if it really
matters, I mask and very slightly gaussian blur areas with detail that is
unimportant, so that the discrete cosine transform (or whatever the
variation on Fourrier is) doesn't need any high order coefficients in those
picture areas.

Andrw Armstrong

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lauren Hanka" <bluejay(at)starband.net>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 6:46 AM
Subject: Re: annoying websites


> Yeah... and you know what they really like? Pictures... *BIG,* clear,
> pictures! So how do we balance load time/picture size to make everyone
> happy?
>
> Lauren
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cook, Shelby" <scook(at)equibase.com>
> To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 9:52 AM
> Subject: RE: annoying websites
>
>
> > This may have been it's origins but it is mainstream now and the
> population
> > of the net is quite different today.  Perhaps you are only interested in
> > sharing ideas on your websites.  I'm not.  I'm out to gather customers
and
> > get them to buy something.  Most of them are not web-literate (heck,
half
> of
> > them aren't computer literate).  People are influenced by many things,
> > content being only one of them.  Color, size, shape, layout and even
fonts
> > all have an effect on people, although for most it is subconscious.
Part
> of
> > gathering my customers is showing them appealing images, colors, etc.
> > Visual interest is important in attracting people to your site, content
> will
> > keep them coming back.  Yes, there are some instances where the content
is
> > the attractant but for the mainstream user, it also means using all
> elements
> > of the design to influence your customers into staying long enough to
want
> > to return (including shiny objects, if warranted).
> >
> > Shelby Cook
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com [mailto:bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 12:01 PM
> > > To: hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
> > > Subject: RE: annoying websites
> > >
> > >
> > > Actually, they know they have something worthwhile to say and
> > > that they
> > > don't have to lure readers in with a bunch of flashy
> > > gee-gaws.  The WWW was
> > > created to exchange ideas, not to tantalize surfers like a
> > > bunch of babies
> > > staring at shiny objects.
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Hough, Jonathan (TWIi London) [mailto:JHough(at)twii.net]
> > > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 10:05 AM
> > > To: 'Michael Wilson'; 'rudy'; hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
> > > Subject: RE: annoying websites
> > >
> > >
> > > don't you think these jakob nielsens, eric steven raymonds
> > > just promote what
> > > they call useable sites (ie no graphics, backward compliant)
> > > because they
> > > can't actually design?
> > >
>
>

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