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How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site – Part 1
You are staring at the your monitor waiting for the image to download. It finally appears but it has blurry edges. You go to the next page but can't read the text because of the dark image in the background. The next page has animated images, that...
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When I was in sixth grade, there was this big goon in my class who terrorized all the kids, especially the small ones. His favorite trick was to grab the cap off my head (and in a -25 degree Canadian winter, this was not as amusing as it...
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Advantages of a Simple Design
Easily maintained
If a design flaw is found for a particular browser, it's far easier to find and fix the problem in the HTML source of a simple design, compared to a complex one.
Browser compatibility
All of the browsers out there, from Mozilla to Internet Explorer will display a layout differently. Distortion of an original design can be kept to a minimum by removing the amount of complex tables, cells, formatting tags, images, etc.
Bandwidth efficient
Images, flash, and tags wasted on creating a complex design all require bandwidth. Bandwidth costs
money. With a bandwidth efficient, simple layout a website can have more visitors while saving on costs of bandwidth in the long run.
Page load time
Some visitors will be using a 56k or slower modem. A 12kb page loading for a visitor using high speed internet will take less than a second. That same page will take four seconds to load with a 56k modem.
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