From: Sara Leavitt (saral@uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 12:06:55 PST
Ana,
That's a nice home page design, but yes, one large image (232K) will
take longer to download than several separately optimized images.
Also, the rule of thumb has been to keep web pages total file size
around 50K.
I suggest you slice the large image in Fireworks (or ImageReady).
Slicing allows you to optimize (size vs. quality) each slice file.
You can even mix gifs and jpegs to get the best affect. This web site
explains it pretty well.
http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/weekly/aa000808a.htm
-Sara
>My turn:
>This is a question for everyone. Unfortunately, I couldn't make it
>to yesterday's meeting. I would have liked for others to see my
>sites and comment:
>
>I was told that some of my web pages, particularly the index sites
>(UG and Grad) are slow to come up. Since I was self-taught, I might
>not have done something right (slicing) when designing it. Could it
>be the larger image I designed in Fireworks and exported it to
>Dreamweaver? I have Dreamweaver/Fireworks 3 package. I think I need
>to slice it for faster loading, is this true? If so, how do I do
>this? Unfortunately, I don't have problems viewing my sites, they
>come up right away...so I have no idea what others are seeing with
>older computers.
>
>Feel free to take a look and give me your feedback:
>
>UG - http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/
>Grad - http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/graduate/index.html
>
>Ana
>
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