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_gail
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Large Images: Fixed height tables, loading time, slicing? - 4/28/2003 8:24:26
I' m designing a website for a fledging model, actress and film director. I have gorgeous, professionally done photos to work with (yahoo!). My goal is to create a site so the photos " do all the talking," so to speak. I' m using fairly large images, 590 pixels wide by about 450 pixels.
Questions:
1- Fixed height tables
I' ve often heard in these forums to not fix the height of tables or cells, and I usually do not. Are there any exceptions to the rule, as I want to make sure these images don' t tile. If not, any suggestions? Images are inserted into the table backgrounds.
2- Slicing
After resizing and optimizing images, one per page, each loads in about 20 seconds over 28.8, according to FrontPage. I find this acceptable. Do you? My priority is keeping image quality.
Should the images, by virtue of their size, be sliced? I experimented slicing one image equally into four parts. Guess what?! The load time increased from about 20 seconds to 32 seconds. Huh?
thanks, gail
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abbeyvet
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RE: Large Images: Fixed height tables, loading time, sl... - 4/28/2003 10:19:48
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not fix the height of tables or cells ...... I want to make sure these images don' t tile.
I would not make exceptions - it really can make a horrible mess in NN and in any case, if tiling is the issue, it will not stop the cell/table becoming longer if its contents stretch it, no more than setting the width would.
I would tend in these cases to use a small transparent gif in the table to hold it to a given height, if you do not want it to shrink.
Preventing it from becoming too long for some users may mean using fixed measurements for your text - with the understanding that you will be taking away the users ability to change the text size. That is use pixels instead of points or percentages.
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20 seconds over 28.8
I would say that was acceptable.
On the sliced images- you will have added a lot of code by doing that, and if your large image is properly optimised that is the result I would expect - a longer load for the sliced version.
Just a thought - are you aware of the big issue with table background images in Netscape - where the image will tile over each cell of the table, that is to say will start again with each new table cell?
There is a good workaround here:
http://www.dreamweaversites.com/tutorials/tablebgs.htm
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