celto d Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 Hi I am currently creating a website for an artist friend of mine. He has given me over 200 images to use. With about 10 catergories. So i am thinking 10 pages with about 20 images on each. As i am fairly new to Web Design i was just wondering what is the maximum amount of data i should have on each page.(apologies if this is obvious) Ideally i would like to have some fairly high res jpegs with the corresponding thumbnails at no more than 5k. Also there will be a few bg images at no more than 30k in size. How high in quality can i make the main images? Without being concerned with slow page loading. The target audience will be people from Europe and the US. Thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 You can use this to analyze a web page (after you have nearly finished it):- http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ However, it seems to be an old analyzer and gives comments which seem more directed at old dial-up when saying that the KB for images or some other part of a page are too high. I would say 150KB for a homepage but 400KB for other pages because if someone wants to move from a home page to a page with images they will probably expect a slower download.It's useful, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grabenair Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 I would use disjointed rollovers with the img pre loading. I found that this method loads fairly quickly. This is also easy to learn there are not that many steps. For a example of this method check out roxanesmarine.com, You can also make a larger img appear when you roll over instead of the way that I did the layout if you had more imgs on your page.You may use php for a photo layout which works well also. But personally if you are using DW I would use the disjointed method. As far as the max amount of data for your page, for a photo layout I would make one page and up load it to my server and test it, then go from there. But remember people are going to expect photos to up load a little slower as long as it does not take to long. That is where the pre load helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celto d Posted March 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2011 Thx guys. Cheers for your advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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