[Atrophy]

I don' know why but I'm having problems getting everything I want on my site. I get 10mb of webspace from my isp and I would think that MORE than enough for virtually anything I might wanna do... it's in its begining stages now so forgive how bland it looks... and it is, ofcourse, my first one. Please be genital.

Any recomendations? I'm using dreamweaver mx cause frontpage is a whore. But mostly as an html editor considering I have no idea how to create anything in flash. Most files are jpg's. Any help would kick something x-rated, thx.
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[balistic]

10 megs is practically nothing. I've got close to 100 megs on my site, not counting MP3s.

Just randomly clicked on a sketch and it's 130kb . . . that's probably a bit large. For line work, I usually convert to an 8 or 16 color GIF file. Woah, your thumbnails are like 50k each. Try either using more compression on them or making them into 8-color GIFs. Your thumbs shouldn't be bigger than 10-15kb.
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[Awetopsy]

If you use Photoshop, try using the "save for web" module to decrease the size of your site.. Ive got my entire page down to 5 megs and Ive got a whole tone of pics on there.

I managed to get the entire page, minus all the thumbnails and finished artworks, just the parts of the page themselves, down to under 30k which means it takes almost no time to load.

just by browsing your site, I really see that you could severely cut down the size of your site by using "save for web".

[eyalyab]

when you save jpg's, 8 quality is AS GOOD as 10 or 12.
i personally dont think there is a difference between them, aside the fact you get a 1/3 filesize.

when saving images with lots of colors use jpg compression. when saving monotoneous images use gif and limit it to the main tones. you dont need the whole 256 color scale.

balistic and awetopsy said it before me. the line works are 300KB each which is a ton. if the image is greyscale, save it as greyscale and not jpg.

[aColdOldKodiak]

if you're going to compress your pictures from .psd to jpg, I would goto www.download.com and download a little program called irfanview. It compresses jpgs very nicely and keeps quality very high.
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