New Website

[John Carmichael]

Hello sundial surfers,   Kevin, my webmaster and I finally finished replacing that damn Types and Prices PDF (in my new website at www.sundialsculptures.com) with normal formatting.  We used a series of popup windows and put the graphics in GIF format.   Kevin says that the GIFs make a graphic download in a progressive sort of way so that when it first starts to download it has horrible resolution, but as the download progresses, the resolution improves greatly until the download is complete.  A JPEG graphic is not visible on the screen until the download is finished, then the graphic appears all at once. I think he used GIFs instead because the file size is smaller than JPEGs, but I might have misunderstood him.   I'm not sure I like the slow way GIFs progressively appear on the screen. And the download time seems longer than JPEGS. (I haven't tested this though, so it's just a feeling).    Do any of you have any format preference (GIF or JPEG) for websites? Should we change the graphics to JPEGs?  Also, do you think the popups are user-friendly?   Thanks   John   John L. Carmichael Jr. Sundial Sculptures 925 E. Foothills Dr. Tucson Arizona 85718 USA   Tel: 520-696-1709 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: <http://www.sundialsculptures.com>