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FOCUS: Some basic dos and don'ts
Generally Do:
- Save photographs as .jpg and text graphics as gif.
- Compress the photographs and graphics as far as you can while maintaining clarity.
- Scan the materials at a high resolution (300dpi), make your corrections and then reduce the resolution (72dpi). dpi means dots per inch.
- Reduce the actual size of photographs to keep loading time to a minimum.
- Make thumbnail pictures, when possible, which link to a page with the full picture.
- Know that AOL users who have not changed the default setting under Web Graphics, will see all graphics compressed. This can get really ugly and if you haven't checked your site on AOL with the compression setting, you should.
- Have a look at your web page on both Mac and PC platforms and in different browsers! You can get some nasty surprises, especially on Netscape 4x.
- Know that Netscape 4x does not support the "hover" function.
- Make the text large enough to read without looking clunky. Mac users will see text smaller than those on a PC. Less than 10px is unreadable on a Mac.
- Be aware that the rendering of color and size will differ greatly between PCs and Mac. Everything will show up darker on a PC.
Web site development moves quickly. What was "in" a year ago looks silly and old this year!
Do NOT:
- Put too many photographs on one page!
- Put too many photographs on one page!
- Use those old-fashioned horizontal dividers.
- Get carried away with trite animations. (It's also "out" already)
TIP: Meta Keywords Search machines will not read more than 50 keywords, so choose carefully. You do have meta tags for the search machines, don't you?
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Busy webdesign guru Joe Gillespie was willing to discuss some problems inherent in creating a singer website. Many thanks!
Joe Gillespie - WPDFD
Joe Gillespie is a graphic designer working in London UK. He started off in traditional print and advertising design and got his first taste of computers and programming back in the 1980s.
With experience in both design and the more technical side, he changed course from print design to multimedia and videographics about 1988 and got involved with web design in its embryonic stage in the early '90s.
Over the past few years, He has produced many CD-ROM and on-line projects for Apple Computer, Canon, Microsoft, Sony, The Daily Telegraph, Video Logic and other leading companies.
Every site designer can benefit from surfing Joe Gillespie's site, WPDFD (Web Page Design for Designers), for basic and advanced website design tips.
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