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Hi Chis! These two images are identical exept that the one is 20kb and the other is 70kb and they look exactly the same. So how do you get there. Well in photoshop once you finished a pic, you go under "save fo web", then you choose JPG formate for pics with graidients and GIF for plain color objects. Then you set the quality to around 50-60%, look what looks cleaner, and save that compessed one.

The diffrence is big, now the bar is around 116kb and you could shrink it to about 25-30kb without degradnig the quality.
By the way CHRIS, If you would like me to help you just write me, i would be happy to help you keep the page as small as possible. Greets Dave

Kill that extra (unnessecery) bandwidth, and load Blank three times as fast!

http://www.miniusa.com/crm/mini_entrance.jsp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/senseschallenge/