If you need some tips on how to improve your site, check out Jeff Glover s Sucky to Savvy tutorial. Each page also has cool ratings to indicate just how Sucky or Savvy a particular element was. The difference is found in his explanations, to turn the sucky elements into savvy ones. It s obvious that blinking text is annoying. I found helpful was his advice to use thumbnail graphics.
Thumbnails are smaller, lower resolution versions of larger images.
Everyone enjoys cools graphics but when they take too long to load, forget it. Let s face it, time is precious and people are impatient. Thumbnail graphics allow site visitors to choose which images they would like to wait for and allow them to skip images they do not want to spend time to download. Jeff Glover s site is FUN and informative. When you have time, check it out.