You are thinking of establishing a Website for your organisation. Before you embark upon this potentially both rewarding but mine-strewn path, take a few minutes out to check through the following experience proven advice. As you are reading this, you have obviously spent some time browsing the World Wide Web. Given this, you have almost certainly found yourself waiting an age for certain pages to download, only to find that it was not what you were looking for in the first place.
Long waits can also be the fault of unnecessary graphics or 'special effects'.
A graphics intensive page style may look great but if they take too long to appear they will put many visitors off continuing through your presentation. Specify Graphic Sizes - The display of text can be speeded up significantly, and avoiding graphics and text blocks jumbling about whilst the pages are downloading, by always making sure that the desired positioning and sizes of graphics and pictures are specified in the HTML coding that makes up the pages. We always specify graphic dimensions. Visitors do not need to wait until the whole graphic loads and then blinks into view, they can choose to wait, or move back or on through the presentation at the earliest opportunity. Graphic File Formats - File sizes can be reduced significantly whilst still retaining the necessary quality.