This works fine for those with broadband high speed connections. Most of the visitors view the web site on a screen that is between 15 and 19 inches wide and can only see 216 colors and also can only download at 28.8 kb per second.



This means that as a web site owner, designer, president, or any one who has control over a web site should follow some simple rules. He basic rule is to make sure that you are on a 28.8 connection and then type in the URL for your web site/web page, hit enter, and count the number of seconds the web site/web page takes to fully load and display. If you needed to gasp for air before the page was fully down loaded you should cut down on the size of the page. A good idea is to keep the size of the web page lesser than 50K or less. The number one visited web site home page is under 21k. If you take the case of Yahoo's homepage, its only 20k. This might seem like very small in size but good web designers can really do a lot within this size.

To get the web page under 50K or 30 K, the first thing that should be taken care of is that all the graphic images should be as small as possible. Try to get the graphics/images smaller than 4k. Going up to 6k is reasonable. When designing a graphic for the web site keep in mind the number of colors being used. As a graphic designer, it is very hard to go from millions of color to only 216. Yes, 216 is the number of colors you have on a web safe color pallet. Use solid colors when designing your image. The Photo Shop's gradient tool is a popular tool that helps the designers to take good care of this point. It looks good to fade things in and out. The background border is normally made up of this gradient. Always right click on the image to see the size. The 8k-12k is not worth the space. The problem with the gradient is it uses many colors and dithering. Both take up big time K. The basic mantra is the more colors you have in an image the bigger it's going to be.