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One of the most common questions we get asked at web design suffolk is how to reduce an images size. There are a whole multitude of images and graphics available for people to put onto their sites, but it is often difficult to work out how to prepare them for the web. If you don’t get it right, you could end up with images that are pix-elated and blurry, or on the other end of the scale, you could end up with pictures that are too big and slow to download - that why we want to tell you how to reduce them in size.

Reducing the dimensions is the best way that web design suffolk has found to reduce images sizes for the web. For example, if your image measures 1024×758 pixels, you could reduce it to 800×600. You could also crop the image, chopping off excess from the edges. These techniques will change the size and shape of the image, but not otherwise affect the quality.

If you are looking to have a successful site online, one that people will come back time and time again, the single most important thing you must do is freshen your content daily. If you visit a site designed by web design suffolk and discover that it was last updated two months ago, you will surely move on and try another site. Even if you are looking at a simple info site and just want an address, if the content isn’t updated and fresh, then people will move away fairly quickly.

Basically, updated content impresses people and keep them coming back for more. What is shows clearly to all users that visit your site is that you have a clear commitment to your site and it matters. Therefore an updated site will always attract new customers and users.

Whether you know it or not, whenever you visit a site, your browser stores its name and address in a list called the ‘History’. This is very handy if you want to return to a page that you’ve recently visited but you can’t remember the address and didn’t create a bookmark. Web Design Suffolk uses this function all the time, all you have to do is click the History button on your browser and view all of the sites listed on the menu.

With your History, web design suffolk has found that Firefox and Internet Explorer give you various options with regards to your History button. You can sort your History by date, name, or order of visit. You can also search through the contents of the pages listed. The browsers also allow you to choose how long a History you want your browser to record. A long History can be very useful, but it can also cause problesm and slow things down - especially if you are online a lot. To edit your History, go to Options in the Toole menu.

Whenever you see something moving on a website from web design suffolk, there is a small chance that it may be an animated GIF, but more than likely it is an animation created in Flash. Flash is a package that allows web design suffolk to create colourful interactive animations in very small files - therefore perfect for the Internet and websites across the world.

For example, a ten second clip may only take up 10kb. When used sparingly with high production values, web design suffolk believes that a good Flash animation can bring real value and Wow factor to any website, but there can be a downside. One of the greatest design no-no’s on any site is an overuse of Flash, especially when it is used as an animation to welcome people to a site. It’s about as popular as a rattle snake in a lucky dip and needs to be avoided at all costs.