A Nerdy Question For My Web Graphics Friends
posted by Kong on February 25, 2002
So in the past month or so I've really have tried to learn as much graphic and web design as I can absorb, and have created a new home page that has Java button rollovers and an animated gif background...
I learned a lot doing it, but now there's 236k worth of data that has to be downloaded if someone wants to access the site (140k for the sound in the button rollovers, 96k in gifs).
I have crunched all the gifs and the sound files are 8kHz mono au files. There's no savings there. I can try shrinking the 56k background animated file to maybe a quarter of its size, but other than that I'm looking at bulky home page.
I know the size will be nothing much for high speed modems, but in the design world is there some rule of thumb but how big a site can be in order to be enjoyed by slower modems? Do most people in the US have 56k access?
I hate not being able to upload the new page, but if most people will give up on it before it can download then there isn't much of a point.