| From: | Kevin Twyman |
| Date: | 16 Sep 2000 at 14:36:42 |
| Subject: | Re: I want to create a web page |
Hello Don,
On 16-Sep-00, you 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? ;-)
Absolutely! There is nothing like self-gratification! ;-)
I put it there as a sort of introduction, the site is after all, a
personal one, and the pic is quite small.
Mind you, having seen it, perhaps people then go somewhere else! ;)
> 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)"
I've tended to use mainly "middle of the range" resolutions, bigger
than thumbnails, but nothing huge. On some sites I've found the
thumbnails to be useless, so small that the image is unrecognisable.
> 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
That sounds like a good theory. I'm not happy with the custom buttons
I made for my site, so I might re-do them and have another look a the
whole layout again. It is raining here again, after all.... ;)
> IMO the worst thing of all is a Flash animation on the index page.
Especially when Voyager crashes immediately after loading it!
Regards,
Kevin - Est. 1949 http://www.theboyz.freeserve.co.uk
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