Re: FN-FORUM Cut Graphic?

date posted 29th August 2000 16:11

personally, i avoid using splash pages like the plague ;)


--- Steve Parkes [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote: > On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Martin
wrote:
>
> > Steve Parkes wrote on 29/8/00 12:00 pm
> >
> > >Every image you create is opened as a new connection to the host. By
> > >chopping graphincs up you are creating more connections than needed and
> > >slowing the site down.
> >
> > However, since most browsers can make several simultaneous connections,
> > the image *appears* to arrive faster.
> Not if the connection has a high latency or the server is overworked ;-)
>
> keep alive connections may help sometimes but a single image (well
> designed and compassionatly compressed) will *be* quicker over a modem
> connection to an overworked web server.
>
> >
> > Also, with a sliced image, you can use different types and settings of
> > optimisation (or even leave the area as a blank table cell or have
> > 'real' text) for each slice, which can drastically reduce the amount
> > of data required.
> Creative snipping here ;-)
>
> The image in question is used in a splash page. I slice out areas of
> images and replace them all the time when creating GUI's but that wasn't
> the question
>
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