| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 16 Sep 2000 at 10:00:35 |
| Subject: | Re: I want to create a web page |
On 14-Sep-00, Kevin Twyman wrote:
> Sounds pretty reasonable. I think my index page is bigger than that,
> but then it has my mugshot on it ;-)
Maybe that should be moved to another page. Is it really the most
important and interesting thing on the site? ;-)
>> If the index page takes too long to appear, most people will go
>> elsewhere, especially if they are only looking at your site out of
>> mild interest. Once they get deeper into the site, people will wait
>> longer.
>
> Lots of pics on my site, I'm not sure if I've over done it or not, but
> it is mainly a graphics based site.
I think you can have as many and as big pictures, audio etc as you like,
so long as people know what's coming. For example, "Click here to see a
high res version (2 Megs)"
It's when the 2 Meg version comes up on a page you expected to see at
once that you start to dislike the designer.
My theory is that there are 3 kinds of page:
Navigation pages, like the index page, should load in a few seconds
Information pages, the meat of the site, can take longer because the
viewer is now definitely interested (maybe up to 30 secs) (mug shots go
here)
In-depth pages like high res images, for the seriously interested
viewer/listener who doesn't mind waiting a while
IMO the worst thing of all is a Flash animation on the index page.
Regards
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