| One of the top complaints of internet users deals with | | | | Lastly, make sure to stay away from or try to |
| the speed at which a website is being displayed. The | | | | minimize some development issues. For instance there |
| faster your website displays, the faster your users will | | | | is little to no need to use nested tables. Having multiple |
| be able to get to the content they need. Even with | | | | table sets on one page will take the browser longer to |
| today's affordable high speed internet connection there | | | | render out the entire page. An effective web designer |
| are still a large number of users who rely on dial up | | | | needs to be using new solutions like div tags in order |
| connections or low bandwidth dsl connections (in many | | | | to solve many of the nested table issues. Also, when |
| cases are only 2x-4x the speed of 56k). One of the | | | | dealing with frames, try to keep the amount of frames |
| goals of being an effective web designer is | | | | to a minimum; for every frame set the browser must |
| compatibility and optimizing a website to be viewable | | | | request it again. This is an ineffective web design |
| to the largest audience possible. If a user cannot | | | | technique that can often lead to trouble with |
| connect to your website within a matter of seconds or | | | | downloads and longer load times. Unfortunately, there |
| content is loading too slowly for their taste, rest | | | | is not a lot to be done about the inherent speed of |
| assured that they will venture elsewhere for that | | | | frames. If you use a framed site, then make sure that |
| information or goods. | | | | each frame in the frameset is small and loads quickly. |
| One of the key things to realize is a 100k website will | | | | Keep the images small and use small amounts of text. |
| take roughly 20 seconds to load with a 56k modem | | | | Websites will only get larger as time passes, but trying |
| connection. Keeping each webpage around 30-50k is | | | | to find ways to minimize the total download size can |
| ideal when trying to effectively design a universally | | | | help you reach more clients/users. The speeds of the |
| compliant website. Cluttering a page with too many | | | | average internet user has been on the rise for the |
| images, or not optimizing images that repeat over and | | | | past 10 years and larger website will be easier to |
| over again using CSS is bad development. It is | | | | develop due to the ever increasng amount of |
| redundancy that does not need to be downloaded | | | | bandwidth. Keep this in mind when design your own |
| over and over again. Creating a simple thin one pixel | | | | effective website. |
| line can replace an entire square background image. | | | | |