Dr. Steve wrote:
> While I'm at it, I'd appreciate some feedback from the list on the David
> Essig site. I've revamped the recordings menu at
> www.island.net/~essig/recordings.html to show CD cover spines rather than
> full CD front covers, in the hopes that this will provide quicker
> downloads. The CD spine pix I've got are all 575X28 pixels, so they're
> pretty big, especially on a 640X480 res.
>
> Do you think it would be better to redo even smaller - say 300 wide?
I think 300 wide would be too small and would impact legibility. I don't
think your images are too wide now, regarding browser sizes. Many
mainstream, high traffic sites design to 600 wide.
If you want to shrink the images, my guess is that you could probably cut
100 to 125 pixels off the width and still maintain legibility when you
resize and retain the height/width ratio. I'm not necessarily recommending
that, though. IMO, they seem a little on the large size...they look good
with the image of Essig at the bottom of the page, but seem a little large
when looked at next to the other fonts on the page. I don't think it's a big
deal one way or the other.
I noted that your text says "Click the album cover", which I'm guessing was
referring to the album covers that used to be there. ? Should it say "Click
on the CD" or something?
Also, I'd recommend only using the spine image once on the pages that have
the spine at top and the details of the recordings below. I think you can
lose the spine image at the bottom.
Anudder ting: You asked in the past about how to get the letters in your
jpg/nav map to be smoother looking (less fuzzy). Well, Suz mentioned Adobe
Image Ready recently, which could be your answer. It allows you to convert a
photographic image to a gif (which will cause a dither) while maintaining
flat (undithered) colors in specified areas. Your fuzziness comes from the
dithering that happened when you converted the photo-with-text-on-it to gif.
Jack
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