Optimization

I'm creating a website that I want people to view on most computers, so i've got to set my pages at a reasonable screen size which is 800x600pi as stated here by some random forum monkeys... everyone say "thanks" to the monkeys.

I could optimize the the site to be viewed by more tech savy people such as graphic designers and web developers by basing my site around 1024x800pi or even 1280x1024, in fact it would probably make sense as they're my target audience, but just in case, (and so that my technophobe grandmother can have a gander) I'm going to go with tiny-weeny 800x600 o-vision. I've designed it all on paper (see the portfolio) and gone through a few interface designs to streamline it as per the advice given to me by mr Nielsen. I even scrapped an animation (le gasp!) that i was going to use as a menu vehicle, because I thought it was just to damn clunky and pretentious.



I've also found a way of creating animated .gifs in after effects by exporting the file as a quicktime move then importing that file into image ready and explicitly editing the frames to make it less clunky. (its got something to do with how AE works in frames and .gifs work in jiffies which confuses things when you export gifs directly out of AE)

this was my test (you have to click on it to see it move)



tj -x-