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Title: @kins Diet for Web Pages
Author: Thomas Jenkins
Article:
Do your visitors have to wait an age before they can view any of
the content on your site? The problem is most people won't "wait
an age", they will simply click off your site and if you are
trying to run a business then this can be disastrous! Good web
design is a balancing act between content rich, graphically
pleasing sites and loading times. As internet connections get
faster we cannot become complacent and think that we can stop
worrying about loading times, because people will expect loading
times to be even quicker as they upgrade their internet
connection and may click off your site after a shorter than
usual period of waiting. "I recommend putting your site on the
@kins Diet!" Okay, so we have established how important a quick
loading site is, but how can we shorten lengthy loading times.
Well, I recommend putting your site on the @kins Diet! Remove
all the excess; lengthy video clips, background music and
unnecessarily bulky images. As with any good diet, you shouldn't
good cold turkey and omit all these things - just as our body
needs a range of nutrients, a good web page needs a range of
media. Long pages of endless text may load quickly, but they
don't exactly speak good web design. "Communicate with your
visitors!" Another rule of the @kins diet is that you should
spread out the media in your site, don't eat all your junk food
ration in one day i.e. don't put all the largest images on one
page and if you do feel like you need to do this, then don't,
again DO NOT, put all these files on the index page. Put them in
a gallery page (Top Tip: use thumbnail images in galleries),
that has a warning of lengthy loading times. Communicate with
your visitors! The reason most click off is because they think
that there is something wrong with the page, or worse, their
computer! You can save them and you so much trouble by just
leaving them a little note saying something like, "Please wait.
Images Loading… Thank you." on the page that is loading. Or a
rollover advice text that tells them that the page they are
about to click on has a lengthy loading time. "cut the bulky
images into smaller chunks" Sites with loads of images are the
ones that tend to take longest to load. The Bigger the imager,
the longer it takes to load the image. Solution: reduce the size
of the image. This isn't always possible, I understand that.
There are other ways, try slicing the image. For those of you
that don't know, this is like eating little and often, rather
than having heavy meals - cut the bulky images into smaller
chunks and then place them back together. This will definitely
aid loading times and as parts of the image will be seen by the
viewer, they will at least know something is happening. Also
look at the format of the images, .bmp images will take longer
to load than .jpg or .gif - These are like diet foods, which
don't always taste as good as the original. The same sort of
thing applies here, unless you use a good image editor then the
quality of the image can be degraded on conversion. Okay, so in
summary the @kins diet recommends smaller images, rather than
larger ones. When you definitely need to have a larger image,
break it down into more manageable chunks and format it
correctly. Most importantly of all, cut out the useless content
that adds nothing to your design overall!
About the author:
Thomas Jenkins is the webmaster of http://www.jkomp.com
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