This definately looks like it should be a flash site. That would answer all your issues.
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Input on the design, layout
Go to this site
bestwebcomics.com
bestwebcomics.com/page13.h
how do you make the layout/design nicer without compromising the quality of the comics AND without the use of slicing? any comment? how to make it interactive without using too much bandwidth...
the owner asked me to give some input abt this but reluctant to use slicing, sizing down the width and height or whatever...duhh... u guys got any idea how to do it? esp to make the graphic loads faster?
do help asap. all helpful pointers deserves points
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Hi,
Doing the whole site in Flash:
- Animation richer and smaller in size
- Picture quality will be maintained
- Loading animations will be faster
- More elegant, vivid and live
- Easier for you to edit the animations
But don't make the whole site in Flash, just replace the gif animations with Flash animation.
Here you have to take into considerations users with normal modems, sometimes websites fully in flash takes lot of time to load.
Just replace the gif animations with flash ones.
Regards
hhammash
I would do the whole site in flash. Look at crossgen and marvels site. You could have online comics. Tie into to a database etc. normally I am a frontpage 2003 proponent. but in your case you are graphic intensive (and rightly so for your genre) try the latest free flash download and see for yourself. Your site is the consumate flash candidate.
Ps. They have been making movie trailers in flash for several years now. becuase of it advanced use of layers and recent tye-ins with databases it is a wave of the future.
Hi,
I opened your website, using dial-up and asked many of my friends who are in the US, Germany, China who still have dial-up to access your website. They said that for the first time they visit the website it is slow. But the second time it becomes fast. This is logical because your pictures get saved in the cash.
If you don't know Flash I suggest that you keep using the site you have. And since. For me I tried your website using dial-up, ADSL, and a 100MB LAN Connection. I was satisfied with the speed in all three, sepcially the second visit.
As I said before, try making your picture smaller in size, but this will affect quality a little bit.
Also, by using Frontpage, you can still get a short code in JavaScript to load the pictures in the memory in the background. This will make them load faster when they are asked for.
Don't worry, your site is OK, it is slow only in the first visit.
hhammash
I found that I often needed to use Flash, Fireworks AND Dreamweaver to create what I wanted - have a look at a package called Swish - www.swishzone.com - novices I know got up and running on this incredibly quickly. It's also incredibly cheap! The tutorials are pretty reasonable.
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by: hhammashPosted on 2004-05-14 at 04:28:10ID: 11067132
Hi,
- The images laod very slowly, I don't know why he is against slicing, but slicing will make the pages load faster and it will not effect the quality of the photo.
- Try using Flash instead of animated Gif.
- Load the picture while opening the site by using Javascript code to load the pictures into the client's PC memory while viewing the main page. The JavaScript should be between the head tags. It should work to load the pictures silently. When the pictures is requested it will be viewed very fast. So, when the user calls the page, the main page with its pictures will be viewed, meanwhile, the JavaScript will be working by loading the other pictures in the memory. I don't mean all website pictures, I mean the pictures that are related to the pictures viewed on the current page. On the current page you have pictures which are hyperlinked to other pictures, in the top of the page load those related pictures, do that in each page. Your site is loaded slowly for the first time, but after that the pictures load very quickly because they are saved in the client's PC. This is what the JavaScript does to the pictures. Loads them in advance which makes it faster for them to be viewed when asked by the user.
- Create tables with the size of the pictures, don't make the table with percentage, make the pictures are background for the tables.
- The photos have big sizes. Try and change gif images that are not animated into Jpg with medium quality, by using Photoshop "Save for Web".
- Slicing is not a bad idea at all.
hhammash