What is acceptable pagesize?

[Annika]

Hello!

I am new at this and am doing a page for a photographer with lots of images...
My question is simple. What would be an acceptable filesize for a portfolioclip?

Is there trick way to compress images and keep the quality high? They are all JPEGs?

Would there be any difference in downloadspeed having them in a MC or
a new movie (loadMovieNum...)

Thanks for answering my Newbie questions,
Annika

[Ricod]

wasn't there a study on most used screensizes ? I believe that 800x600 is still the most used with a tedency more and more towards 1024x768.

Photographs are smallest in the jpeg format. But if there are only a few colors, gifs will be smaller using a smaller palette. I believe there's not really a magic setting. A program as ImageReady is handy in such cases, to compare different compressions with each other.

Loading in the seperate photo's will decrease the initial download speed, since only the interface and a select number of graphics will need to be downloaded. This prevents the downloading of unwanted graphics. Users can decide for themselfs wether or not they want to download a specific photograph. This is ofcourse best when dealing with big pictures and modems.

[Jesse]

If you're talkign about filesize not dimensions (commonly called 'wieght' in the industry), I suggest you keep your page weight below 100kB if your target audience is on broadband, and below 30kB if they are on anything slower. Offer thumbnails at 50x50 pixels or so (whcih should all be about 1kB) and upon request (clicking the thumbnails) offer higher fidelity versions at say 60kB - 200kB

[Ricod]

*glares at screen* One of these days I have to wake up before I start babbling ...

[remka]

I guess the size of the picture is not a real problem, you could put each one in a different swf, and load them separately, with a little preloader...
If your site is for a photographer, i think the quality and the size of the picture are important, so if i were you, i would choose to keep them in good quality jpg, and preload them.;)

But this was flash 5.. With flash MX, you could load the picture from a file outside your swf, but i don't know how to preload them.:rolleyes:

[Annika]

:) Thanks for your replys!
They are all really helpfull!
At the moment I have made a scene with tumbnail pics and when you click on them
you can see a bigger size pic and then it continus like a slideshow...
It is a 350k size file though so it would take a minute or so to download!
Maybe it is a better idea to have the larger pics in separate SWFs and load them on command
as you suggested?

Thanks:p
Annika

[remka]

I think so...

Perhaps you should put each big picture in a separate SWF (each picture around 50ko?), and a little preloader. Because , maybe the user won't see each picture; so you don't need to load them all in one time.
And call these swf from your main scene with "loadmovie". With this method, you could easily add more pictures if you want.

rmK