NewYearInSerbia.com it's finally finished

AlbinoPanther · Sun 09/12/2007 14:30:14

Well, some of you already had a chance to visit my ( our team's, I am a webmaster

) web site in c&c thread. Now it's finally finished, and we already have some customers ( banner buyers ).
The main idea is to advertise New Year's Eve parties in serbian capital city of Belgrade.
So here it is:

NewYearInSerbia.com

I hope you like it, and find it useful

One question:
I know that this probably isn't a right place to ask this but, I like to catch two flies with one try (I changed this phrase a bit because I dislike killing $:-\$ ).

How could I compress gif files, more than they are compressed in Photoshop? Our site isn't that big and it takes a little more time to load it than I would be satisffied with.

Thanks

ps. I would like to give special thanks to InCreator and Evil for their unselfish help thanks guys

cheers

Minimi · Sun 09/12/2007 19:45:16

Quote from: AlbinoPanther on Sun 09/12/2007 14:30:14
How could I compress gif files, more than they are compressed in Photoshop? Our site isn't that big and it takes a little more time to load it than I would be satisffied with.

How about loading the pictures into flash, and use flash files on your website. Flash can compress images pretty well. Also, you JPG would give a lower amount of datafile than GIF. If you need animated gif, you can aswell place sepperate jpg files on sepperate frames in SWF and there you go!

Radiant · Sun 09/12/2007 20:17:13

Quote from: Minimi on Sun 09/12/2007 19:45:16
How about loading the pictures into flash, and use flash files on your website. Flash can compress images pretty well.

Sorry, but flash doesn't compress better than GIF does (and you make your site less accessible if it only works when Flash is installed, not everyone uses that).

Best compression for images that contain a lot of monochromatic areas: GIF or PNG.
Best compression for photographic images: JPEG.

The reason your site is slow is because it contains way too many images

virtually everything on there is an image. Try replacing the animated images by static ones (too much animation makes the site look messy), or try using plain text. HTML can do colored bars, table boxes et cetera without requiring images. Using Flash won't fix this for you.

AlbinoPanther · Sun 09/12/2007 20:33:50

I have tried flash insted of gif but as Radiant said gif is universally supported.
You are right, our web site have too many images

and main cause of that is my lack of knoweledge. But I have started a course in web design so I will be better

Thanks

Evil · Sun 09/12/2007 22:24:59

In Photoshop, there is a save for web option which optimizes files for the web, making them much smaller than saving them normally.