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I use a combination of graphic programs such as
Paint Shop Pro, PSP animation Shop, Photoshop, Uleads Cool 3D, Microsoft Image
Composer and a few others. I also build with Microsoft Front Page or Adobe Page
Mill.
At this time I do not create Flash and the
reason is Flash is very expensive and takes up a tremendous amount of bandwidth
and isn’t compatible with many older systems people have, who also have slow
28 baud connections or less. Bells and whistles look good on a website but even simple
flash takes time to load on a slow-speed connection.
Example: I
have DSL but my dial up connection is only 24 baud on a good day and usually
connects at 21.5 baud, even though I have a very fast V 90 modem. It is because
I live out in the country far from the main phone junction. The closer to the
phone company one lives the faster the connection on dial up.
Until the majority of people are connected to
high-speed access it is better to stick with simple HTML and DHTML effects, as
well as animation. Under 25 % of the United States population has high-speed
Internet access and worldwide the percentage is much lower. No one will want to
look at your website if it takes 10 minutes to load the front page.
These things you want to remember about an
accessible website:
| Operating
System |
%
Global Usage Share |
| Windows
98 |
70.5
% |
| Windows
2000 |
9.1
% |
| Windows
95 |
7.2
% |
| Windows
XP |
5.3
% |
Which
Web browser is used more?
| Browser |
%
Global Usage Share |
| Microsoft
IE 6.0 |
57.6% |
| Microsoft
IE 5.5 |
18.3%
|
| Microsoft
IE 5.0 |
16.9% |
| Netscape
Navigator 4.0 |
1.1%
|
| Mozilla
1 |
1.1% |
| Microsoft
IE 4.0 |
0.9% |
| Opera
6.0 |
0.8%
|
How
many colors are available to most users?
The
data in the chart below comes from Websnapshot.com
(May 2001). It shows that the majority of Web users (48.5%) have the capability
to see only 65,536 colors on the Web.
| Number
of Colors |
%
Global Usage Share |
| 65,536
(16-bit) |
48.5% |
| 16
million (32-bit) |
22.7% |
| Not
specified |
10.8% |
| 16
million (24-bit) |
10.6% |
| 256
(8-bit) |
7.1% |
| 16
(4-bit) |
0.2% |
| 4
(2-bit) |
0.1% |
What
about screen size & resolution?
November 2002, 1024 x 768 is the screen size of most Web
users.
| Screen
size |
%
Global Usage Share |
| 1024
x 768 |
46.1
% |
| 800
x 600 |
34.3
% |
| 1280
x 1024 |
13.1
% |
| 1152
x 864 |
3.9
% |
| 640
x 480 |
1.1
% |
| 1600
x 1200 |
1
% |
| 1152
x 870 |
0.2
% |
What
kinds of connection speeds are typically used?
Notice
that 56K modems were what the majority of US homes with Internet connections
used. This study compared July 2000 with July 2001 and found a trend for
increasingly faster connection speeds.
A
more recent Nielsen//Net ratings press release in January 2003, stated that the
use of broadband (DSL/Cable Modem) connections by U.S. home Internet users
increased by 59% from December 2001 to December 2002. As shown in the table
below, there were still far more U.S. homes using narrowband (56K modem or
slower) than broadband Internet connections in December 2002.
| Access
Speed |
December
2002 Unique Audience |
Percent
Growth 12/01 - 12/02 |
| Broadband |
3.36
million |
59
% |
| Narrowband |
7.74
million |
-10
% |
So as you can see, most people on the web are not yet up to par. You must keep in mind the rest of the world when having a site built.
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