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Nijntje:
Alright, I resized them!

Chaos:
Thank you!  ;D

julilly:

--- Quote from: Purpura Lipstick on December 29, 2006, 11:15:05 PM ---that doesn't work. the idea is to catch the readers eye, that's what they are for!  You don't want to make the readers open a separate page to see you image. And don't tell me that people shouldn't judge a book by the cover because they do :p

why is 450 pixels by 150 pixels too large? it's the size of lots of my banners now (More Than That, Amnesia) those are too large??

Besides you contradicted yourself. you said that a banner 400ishX200ish is decent now you are saying absolutely not that big...

I'm not saying these things to start anything I just want to be able to follow the rules but still make a banner that is somewhat longer.... like the one in my signature... is that too big??

--- End quote ---

On most screens a 450 pixel height makes any rectangle you had going look like a square. You would need your length to be a LOT longer than 150 to make it look like a "banner", and that's just too large. They really can look decent smaller, if most of us can fit good graphics in 100x100 squares I believe it's possible to do it in a 600 pixel surface.

If your story is well written, and has a good summary people will read it regardless of your PSP or Photoshop skills. You'd probably lose readers (the ones on dial up or with small resolution) because they won't want to open your story page multiple times thus having to load and reload the pictures.

Chaos:
I do get where you're coming from Purpura, and I'm still brainstorming on a solution.

Here's one idea I have and I'll see what ya'll think before I start trying to program it or get it set up.

The summaries that you set up when posting the fic initially will have the restricted banner size, etc--we really need to insist on that because it's getting to the point where more people are using banners and the loading size of a search page can easily get up to 500kb or even a megabyte pretty fast with those large filesize banners. They look great and if you're on high-speed, not a problem. Unfortunately first rule of webdesign is that you have to account for the lowest speed users; really the size of a page is ideally around 40kb total including the coding and the images. Now that, I agree, is unlikely to happen when you have more than one banner on a page (in fact many of the banners on the site are 100+kb on their own). So having it take several minutes for the search page to come up for dial-up users...just not good. So gotta insist on the smaller sizes on the summaries.

To counter this, what I'm thinking is that there will be a seperate directory where people can go to view the banner links to stories. Those with high-speed internet or who don't mind waiting the extra time can go that way. Those with slow connections or who just don't want to view the banners can go the current way.

I'll be honest, I'm not sure if I'll be able to tie it in to be automated such that you only enter the info once and have it add the banner and link--it might have to be a deal where people email in the banners and links and I manually add them once a week or something (I'll try my hand at automating first, but...no guarantee).

But I'm wondering what people think of that idea. Fair compromise?

Any other suggestions to make both sides happy?

Teri:
As I said before 600 is good you can make a great banner with 350 by 250 I'm actually trying to resize mine at the moment so hopefully I'll get them up and resized within the next couple of days. (Computer is being retarded lol)

Teri

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