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Website Graphics
With a careful selection of icons, bullets, and bars you can give your site a personality of its own. When using graphics you need to be carefull. If you over use graphics, they can seriously slow down the page's loading time and clutter the page's design.
If you intend to use graphics, you should reuse the same graphics throughout your site. This will also help give your visitor a sense of continuity and consistency.
Check out the following web pages! Can you see why the first page would be considered a better designed page?
The second page contains way too many graphics and the graphics are too large. Did you notice that the page took more time to load than other pages.
Key Design Tips in Relation to Graphics
Therefore when choosing graphics for your web site you need to remember the following:
Smaller graphics download quickly, your graphics should be small in size.
Every graphic link should have a matching text link.
Graphics and backgrounds should use only browser-safe colors.
Animated graphics should turn off by themselves.
Do not over use moving grphics.
The GIF format works best with buttons, icons, cartoons, line art and text images.
JPEG is usually a better file format to use for photographs.
Always use height, width and the ALT HTML Tags with your images.
