We have just finished up with replacing about 50 image files on
our favorite artists pages. We started by reducing the quality of
many Album pictures , and then we focused on reducing the photo sizes
of our artists main picture.For a long time, i have thought about making
those pictures'hot-linked' so they would open a 'pop-up' window with a larger sized version of the pictures. Then, I just decided to put up
the large pictures, and forget the pop-up s. Well, in trying to cling to
our "Flexible sized' pages, the right column would get pushed off the screen in 800 x 600 screen size.
But after realizing that all the Blestyashchie pictures added up to
almost 200kb of graphics , we went ahead and reduced the quality of
the group pictures on that page,as well as the album pictures.
The same for Via-Gra. Then, we realized that some other groups album
photos were too large; for example, each of the E-Type album pictures
was about 30kb , each! For a picture that is 200 pixels square,
they should only be 5-10kb . we also reduced the photos for several other groups who have 7 or more albums in their discography.
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Anyway, if i can find the original pictures that we used in the
various Blest and Via-Gra group photos, we will upload the larger sizes
and link them to open in a pop-up window...you are thrilled. i can tell 8-) Ciao for now..