 |
| Register | Login | |||||
 |
Main
| Memberlist
| Active users
| ACS
| Commons
| Calendar
| Online users Ranks | FAQ | Color Chart | Photo album | IRC Chat |
|
| | ||
|
| Register | Login | |||||
|
Main
| Memberlist
| Active users
| ACS
| Commons
| Calendar
| Online users Ranks | FAQ | Color Chart | Photo album | IRC Chat |
|
| | ||
2 users currently in General Chat:  Dark Vampriel |
| Acmlm's Board - I2 Archive - General Chat - How big is too big? |
 |  |  |
| Pages: 1 2 | Add to favorites | "RSS" Feed | Next newer thread | Next older thread |
Is 98K too big for a layout?| See this thread for an explanation. | Keep it at 98K and leave the empty space |
|
0.0%, 0 vote | Keep it at 201K and fill in the empty space |
50.0%, 5 votes | Both are too big |
30.0%, 3 votes | Something else |
20.0%, 2 votes | Multi-voting is disabled.
| |
| User | Post | ||
|
HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 1664/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
| ||
| I thought I should make a separate poll for this, instead of just a thread that's not specifically about this question. (I put it here so more people will see it, and because it's not as much about art.) To sum it up, if I leave it the way it is, it adds up to 201K of images. If I take out the images to the right, it's only 98K but then there's a big empty spot on higher resolutions that looks ugly. So I'm wondering if people think it's worth the extra bandwidth to keep those space-filler images, if they can live with a big empty spot for the much smaller size, if even that's too big, or if anyone has other suggestions (in particular how to make the images smaller - I've tried JPG and PNG). BTW the empty blue spot to the right of the links is actually a cell with a solid BG colour, not an image. | |||
Lord Rahl Snap Dragon Level: 43  Posts: 537/792 EXP: 544657 For next: 20389 Since: 03-15-04 From: Temple of the Winds - Training Room Since last post: 43 days Last activity: 7 days |
| ||
| Seeing as I'm on dial-up and therefore disabled all backgrounds, it doesn't really matter to me. If I still had my DSL, though, I'd say keep it at where it is. Good cache on a browser means the background's actually only downloaded once, anyway. Might as well make it worth while. XD | |||
KATW King Yoshi "If you stare at something long enough, it can be funny." Level: 86  Posts: 1961/3959 EXP: 6087979 For next: 54128 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 7 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
| ||
You could just go and make a new layout  *shot*Id say 201k is fine.... though I am on broadband so anything you did I probably wouldnt really notice |
|||
Prier Archangel Administrative Priestess. NUCLEAR SUB WEEEOOOO Level: 119  Posts: 3373/8392 EXP: 18790939 For next: 138352 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima Dist. - Tokyo, Japan Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 1 day |
| ||
| Hmm...mine's around 100K...I think...and look at what mine turns out to be all told. As long as you do it right...and it's not something like 200 300 500 10024280498190348 K...then you're fine. If there's an issue with blackspace...maybe you might want to try to rework it a bit. If it absolutely requires you to use that much K...well...don't be suprised if a few 56Kers come running. (edited by Hiryuu on 09-30-04 10:04 PM) |
|||
|
HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 1667/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
| ||
Er, the idea of 'Something Else' is that you post your suggestion.  I'd like to find a better way to fix it, but I'm not seeing much in options... Would it look crappy if I changed that portion of the BG to solid water and made it a really thin image? |
|||
|
Xkeeper The required libraries have not been defined. Level: NAN  Posts: -3178/-863 EXP: NAN For next: 0 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: -753366 sec. |
| ||
| Anything >= 30kB = far too large. Especially when using a nearly 8 year old laptop with a 40kbps connection that has problems loading IE itself (yes, with about:blank home) in less than 10 seconds. I've managed to keep 99% of my layouts nder 10kB. Though those who loooove huge anime |
|||
|
HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 1668/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
| ||
| Sounds like "Lappy 4015" is pretty sad already. Why would you even have layouts enabled with such a slow system? (BTW, someone who uses a font that he knows doesn't work in Mozilla, which isn't exactly some obscure POS that nobody uses, isn't really in a position to be complaining about the size of the images people use. ) |
|||
|
Jizuko Jiz Is The Magic! This board has run out of mana and can no longer use The Magic Level: 51  Posts: 684/1191 EXP: 1004683 For next: 9255 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 230 days Last activity: 213 days |
| ||
| All my layouts are under 60k, even the most graphical ones, the ones that are so graphical they require a static scrollbar. You shouldn't need more than that at all. | |||
Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 5217/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
| ||
| Personally I think 50 kb is max, since 20 100 kb images = 2 MB download on dial-up. Which would take ages for them. |
|||
|
Sofie Level: 52 Posts: 927/1210 EXP: 1028812 For next: 55028 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 187 days Last activity: 279 days |
| ||
| You should be able to keep a layout below 70kb, and anything between 60-70kb is basically one big image. Resize and/or save your images optimal (photoshop's 'save for web' option has tons of ways to keep quality maximum and filesize minimum). I don't get why you made a seperate thread for this though, you already asked it in your MA thread  |
|||
Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143  Posts: 3999/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
| ||
Originally posted by Kitten Yiffer That |
|||
|
Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 5218/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
| ||
Originally posted by Millennium NekoOriginally posted by Kitten Yiffer |
|||
|
Jill In love with a dream.. Level: 36  Posts: 393/528 EXP: 296548 For next: 11562 Since: 03-15-04 From: Teh Sweden Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 14 hours |
| ||
| As long as the host is fast and has a lot of bw, I'm fine with 10mb layouts . |
|||
Arwon Zora Level: 35  Posts: 148/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
| ||
| I'm pretty sure I have one of the smallest layouts. Um, also, I have images switched off in my browser, otherwise this site with all its fancy over the top layouts takes waaay too much time to load. So go nuts with the images - I don't care. |
|||
|
DarkSlaya POOOOOOOOOOOORN! Level: 88 Posts: 2170/4249 EXP: 6409254 For next: 241410 Since: 05-16-04 From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 8 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
| ||
| I don't really care (Have post layout disabled most of the time) but I say that 100k isn't that much of a problem (even with a 56k modem). | |||
|
HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 1671/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
| ||
Originally posted by Kitten YifferOriginally posted by Millennium NekoOriginally posted by Kitten Yiffer |
|||
|
Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143 Posts: 4011/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
| ||
| Those dial-up modems is 5,6KB/sec...not 56KB/sec... You STILL wrote that in a weird way...I thought it was 20100kb images... |
|||
|
Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get.  Level: 73  Posts: 359/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
| ||
| I tend to be of the belief that you should always try to make a layout as small as possible, because layouts add up, and if they're really image intensive, they'll kill people on dialup or with slower PC's. I used to try to make all my layouts have an absolute MAXIMUM of 20k, but I was more often than not below that. I'm not sure what my current layout is, but I'd be surprised if it was very big. Course, when I managed my own Acmlmboard, we'd have people with layouts over 200k. Which sucks when there are several of these larger layouts in the one thread on the one page..... it's one of the reasons the Citadel eventually went away from using Acmlmboards. |
|||
random Goomba Level: 10 Posts: 26/32 EXP: 3871 For next: 543 Since: 08-02-04 From: Eastern Deathville Since last post: 387 days Last activity: 276 days |
| ||
Originally posted by ChibiTaryn Yeah, they do add up. I'm starting to get tired of having to load up 2 GB of graphics just to see the thread. You know it's really bad when someone has a cable connection(me) and it still lags because of all the images having to load up. In conclution my layout is the best, taking up a mean 0K of space. (edited by random on 10-02-04 01:44 PM) |
|||
Modereb Paragoomba Level: 15 Posts: 59/75 EXP: 14749 For next: 1635 Since: 06-04-04 Since last post: 350 days Last activity: 339 days |
| ||
| I wouldn't mind 90 KB... ...for a decent, original and/or creative layout. But hyperhacker, to be blunt, I find your layout far from worth the 90> KB it currently is. It looks unsorted, cluttered, those links and post stats are terribly useless because the links can already be found everywhere on the board, and the stats are right next to your post. But worst of all, the big anime image. Really, in every thread you post in I have to see that same anime image. On top of that, I've seen that very same image on a ton of other websites already. Please, no. |
| Pages: 1 2 | Add to favorites | "RSS" Feed | Next newer thread | Next older thread |
| Acmlm's Board - I2 Archive - General Chat - How big is too big? |
| | |
