[WEB4LIB] RE: Photos on Home Pages

[Hugh Jarvis]

This is exactly the sort of thing I was suggesting. Image files can be
quite small but still decent quality. Plus, for variety, you can have a
series of scattered smaller shots on a page rather than large ones. It's
quite easy to have them cycle everytime someone loads the page.  And the
whole page can be extremely fast loading with an overhead of say 50kb.

	Hugh

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Keith Higgs
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 8:06 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Photos on Home Pages


Among other things, photos of your building, staff, events, etc...
provide
an opportunity to make your homepage more dynamic (read that as "more
interesting"). They do NOT need to be large images to accomplish this.
We
have a collection of 24 120*90 images that cycle on our page every 12
seconds (http://www.cwru.edu/UL/, script available upon request). This
gives visitors a sense of what to expect, what to look for, and serves
as a
preservative to help us keep the page fresh. We have other dynamic
elements
as well.

Keith

D. Keith Higgs. Email: dkh2 at po.cwru.edu, dkhiggs at yahoo.com
Case Western Reserve University, Webmaster - University Library
More Info: http://www.cwru.edu/UL/pershomepages/K_Higgs.html