So as I've stated they have been avoided in part and minimized otherwise. My own picture is small and limited only to my face, shoulders, and hair. The banner graphic is larger but by making it a JPEG I have actually saved space over GIFS while retaining color depth. By reusing these bars, the arrow bullets, and the banner graphic within and across pages I save bandwidth by calling on the reader's local cache rather than the network. Further, by always specifying an image's size in the html IMG tag, the text may always be layed-out and displayed as soon as the html is downloaded.
Sound files are large as well.
To minimize the size of these files I opted to use mono instead of stereo files, and 22.2kHz instead of the CD quality 44.4kHz. A smaller 11.1kHz file is included for readers with less time to download, although this file's content is not identical to the larger file's content because it has been jokingly processed to sound distorted. Use of lists. Lists prove useful in organizing text for quick skimming and higher readability. They are particularly useful for categorizing content.