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> Get Articles > Graphics and Graphic Design > Graphics: To Add Or Not To Add Graphics: To Add Or Not To Add Download as PDFMaryJo Scamurra newslettermjswebularworld.com Webular World http://www.mjswebularworld.com Graphics - To Add Or Not To Add by MaryJo Scamurra When deciding whether or not to add graphics to your website there are a few things to consider. Firstly, ask yourself if this site you are creating will be a personal site or a business site. For the purposes of this article, it will be assumed you are designing a business website. LOCATING SUITABLE GRAPHICS When searching for graphics, there are plenty of places to look on the Internet. My favorite sources are: http://www.bizart.com http://www.arttoday.com http://www.coolarchive.com/clipart.cfm When taking graphics from any website, be sure to read and follow the terms of service posted. It is always wise to save the images to your hard drive instead of linking to them, which is considered bandwidth stealing. ANIMATIONS Before choosing an animated image for your page, ask yourself if it is a necessity to have it there. Chances are the answer is no. View some highly visited, popular websites and count how many dancing email boxes you see. My guess is there won't be many. You will want to keep animations to a minimum to avoid appearing unprofessional. Remember that your site is promoting your business, not a Disney cartoon. The image that comes across to visitors will ultimately determine whether or not they do business with you. LOAD TIME Graphics will slow up the amount of time your page takes to load. The more graphics used, the longer potential customers will have to wait. I am not saying you should not include pictures of your product line, that is very important for selling. What I am suggesting is that by keeping the graphic files as small as possible you will be seeing to a much quicker load time. To optimize the file size of an image, for free, visit: http://www.mjswebularworld.com/cruncher.htm Your visitors may not send you a thank you note, but they WILL be thankful you didn't keep them waiting! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Subscribe to MaryJo Scamurra's Webular World Digest and receive free advice, information and resources on starting and managing your online business. mailto:webularworld-subscribetopica.com or visit her on the web at http://www.mjswebularworld.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You have permission to reprint the above article on your website, in your newsletter or e-book as long as the article and resource box are intact. How useful did you find this article? This article can be downloaded freely from http://www.get-articles.com and used on your website or in your ezine so long as the author is credited and their resource box left intact. You should not change any links in the article, and where the article is used on a website it's links should be clickable. Please see our terms and conditions page for more information: http://www.get-articles.com/authors-publishers-terms.php |
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