Re: GIMP for Web sites

From: ray (ray_at_zianet.com)
Date: 07/23/04

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    Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:57:20 -0600

    On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 01:26:33 +0200, Andy Helliwell wrote:

    >
    > "ray" <ray@zianet.com> schreef in bericht
    > news:2mad95FkukrkU2@uni-berlin.de...
    >> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 07:28:31 +0000, Mudge wrote:
    >>
    >> > Hi,
    >> >
    >> > I want to build a Web site using CSS, HTML, and PHP. I noticed that a
    > lot of
    >> > other Web sites use a lot of graphical pictures, logos, icons, etc to
    > give
    >> > the page a certain look. It's part of the design of the Web sites.
    >> >
    >> > I wanted to know if I can use GIMP to make these same kinds of pictures
    > to
    >> > design my Web site. Also, can GIMP do the same things as photoshop or
    >> > fireworks and such graphics software? Also, does anybody know of any
    >> > books or Web sites to find out how to use GIMP to help design Web sites?
    >>
    >> I would take it a little easy on the kutesy graphics. There are still a
    >> lot of folks withoug broadband access, and it is very easy to load a web
    >> page with so much glitz that it does not load in a reasonable amount of
    >> time. Remember - content is still king, presentation is nice.
    > END>
    >
    > If you only make your pictures 600 by 800 pixels big they are easier to get
    > below
    > 150kb in size,that is actually quite loadable for most people in a
    > relitively short time.
    >
    > Web masters also insist on putting loads of pics or text on one page so that
    > the
    > visitor has to schroll down 3km to reach the bottom,it is much more user
    > friendly
    > but much more work to have pages only one or two screens deep.This also
    > keeps
    > the loading time of the pages down.I took some shots yesterday of the Queen
    > Mary,I use the same method every time when I post the photo's and the pages
    > load quite quickly.
    > http://home.wanadoo.nl/andyhelliwell/rotterdam/queenmary/page1.htm
    >
    > I also take live photo's of punk bands for my web site but I never post the
    > full size
    > pic,600 by 800 resolution is big enough to see,if people want full size pics
    > I will
    > send them one at 1.5 mb a piece.
    >
    > This is one of the most graphically intensive pages on my web site,no one
    > has
    > yet complained that it loads slowy.
    > http://home.wanadoo.nl/andyhelliwell/ramones/index.html
    >
    > When I first started building a web site my pages were atound 25 kb in size,
    > things have changed now though.
    >
    >
    > Andy

    On my personal web sites, when posting pictures, I usually do a bunch of
    thumbnails - each is 160x120 - click on the thumbnail and you can see the
    640x480 or 800x600 image. It also helps to do a fairly drastic jpg
    compression. You can make the total size of the image quite small and
    still get all the necessary detail.

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