He has twenty years of professional programming experience. He knows the Internet. Let us share his knowledge with you. Here are some general guidelines we use to design web pages. Keep it small'.
Many browsers display the size of the images as they are being downloaded.
Many folks have slow modems, bad phone connections, or slow service providers that cause slow download speeds. If it looks like a page will take more than 20-30 seconds to download, some people will hit their stop button. Keep the volume of graphics small. There is another 40K representing three JAVA applets that get downloaded if the browser is JAVA compatible. We wanted to show off our geewhiz cutting edge technology.