Re: Banners

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at accessme dot com> wrote:
> As we were adding the Arabeyes Banner we found that it is large, about 53k 
> in size, Usualy Ad banners should not exceed 10 k in size, but for Arabeyes 
> make it 25k in size, if you can find someone to make another verison of that 
> file it will be great, as the current size will cause slow uploads for our 
> pages for Dialup users, 53k file need about 15-17 seconds to download for 
> dialup users, so, with the page contents, and other graphics in the page it 
> will be up to 25 seconds, more than half of it spent on the banner alone. 
> Besides, Site graphics can be cached by browsers, while banners can not, so 
> it will he to be loaded every time someone access the page... and that is not
> really acceptable either for you, or us.. 
> 
> Please provide us with a smaller file, or if you prefer we can put a static 
> banner of your design.

Isam, give us some time to remedy the size/foot-print issue and we'll get
back to (it will probably be at least a week or so).  As you are aware we
did not create those banner which means will have to hunt for their creator
and/or create new ones of our own.

More later.

BTW: do please subscribe to 'admin' and post such issues there.

Salam.

 - Nadim



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