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Developwebsites said:
Michael Winter said:There are plenty of things wrong with that site, but my favourite has to
be the 3MB animated GIF in the top-right corner. It also seems that
someone neglected to notice that random pixel above the Y in their logo.
On 07 Dec 2004 20:41:43 GMT, Developwebsites
....It also seems that someone
neglected to notice that random pixel above the Y in their logo.
[email protected] said:There are plenty of things wrong with that site, but my favourite has to
be the 3MB animated GIF in the top-right corner. It also seems that
someone neglected to notice that random pixel above the Y in their logo.
(e-mail address removed) says...
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[...] the 3MB animated GIF in the top-right corner. It also seems that
someone neglected to notice that random pixel above the Y in their logo.
View just the GIF:
http://www.nywebnet.net/nycbanner.gif
Michael Winter said:(e-mail address removed) says...
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logo.[...] the 3MB animated GIF in the top-right corner. It also seems that
someone neglected to notice that random pixel above the Y in their
View just the GIF:
http://www.nywebnet.net/nycbanner.gif
I already did. Either:
1) they don't know how to resize images,
2) they stole that GIF from someone else and couldn't be bothered to
resize it, or
3) they're so incompetent that they don't know why serving 3MB
images is a bad idea.
1) they don't know how to resize images,
design skills always play second fiddle to sales ability. You might be a
Jeffrey Silverman said:My brother's brother-in-law is like this. He is a New Yorker, btw. I am
talking to him on Thanksgiving about Linux and the Web and computers.
*Everything* I said to him was responded to by, "How can they make any
money off that?" *Everything"! I told him that life is not just about
money and he scowled.
well, resizing that monster will not help much! It is a dozen images or
so
in a slide show.
not quite.... it's 31 of them
And resizing _would_ help (although admittedly not enough), that picture
is huge (pixel-wise) for what they really need.
Jeffrey said:So you actually counted them??
design skills always play second fiddle to sales ability. You might be a
better designer than those guys (or alot of other designers) but if they are
better at sales they can still make alot more money than you at this field.
He probably did what I did: opened it with the Animated Gif editor,
which immediately said "31 frames".
Even easier than that; Opera shows it with right click -> properties.
opera this opera that. alright already with the friggin' opera!
Oh yes, opera all the way
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