Friday, May 21, 2010

How can I speed up the page load time of a site done only in photoshop and html?

My page is completely done in Photoshop because I wanted to use unique fonts with strong smooth text. Whenever I optimize the page the quality suffers.

How can I speed up the page load time of a site done only in photoshop and html?
I highly, highly suggest you redo the page in XML, I'd even do it for you to save you the trouble haha. Ok, first of all, image maps and etc are just bad, they look nice, but take forever to load, so you are better off going completely flash.





The worse part though, is that search engines do NOT pickup text in images, so you keep a VERY low ranking. You can do a lot of cool stuff with XML, including the roll-overs and button effect while keeping as much actual text as possible. You can add some fonts into your CSS also....





Also, as you probably found out, when dealing with text as an image, a slight variation in quality can destroy it.
Reply:It's a horrible idea to design a webpage in photoshop. No wonder your page loads slow.





You might consider breaking the image up into slices to make it "appear" to load quicker.


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