If you're looking at this page, with all the graphics, then you were very patient indeed!  The moral of this story is, however good a page looks, an excessive amount of animation and/or graphics will drive visitors away because the page will take forever to open!

Also, not all businesses will necessarily want the image produced by lots of fancy stuff on the website: it can look 'gimmicky', which may be appropriate to the kind of business you are in, or not… 

Web builders (including this one!) may love the opportunity to show off and to experiment with new and different creative ideas--that's the main reason why I decided to build this site!  But the primary purpose of a business site is to appeal to customers and web builder and business owner need to keep this in mind.

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This is the front of the house--and this is where you would be writing a brief description of the pictured product. Click the picture for the full sized version

This is the back of the house.  It is difficult to see much detail in a picture so small.  The full size version can be seen by clicking the picture.

And this is the garden!  A picture is likely to have far more impact than just lots of words--and a big picture more effective than a small one.  Double-click the small picture to see what I mean!

This page is also to illustrate the disadvantage of lots of animation on the site.  Animation looks good, but animation files are very large, which makes pages that take a very long time to download.  When the British Institute of Provocative Therapy asked me to build a website to replace their rather unsatisfactory one, they had a really attractive and elegant animated version of their logo. 

Trouble was that on a web page, it made a page that took almost 2 minutes to download, on a normal dialup connection--the way the majority of people connect to the Internet.  Since the top people in the Institute all had high speed cable connections to the Internet, they were not aware of this.  By reducing the number of frames in the animation, I was able to reduce the download time to around 10 to 15 seconds. 

Just to illustrate this, I have made this version of the page, with animated gold title at the top, and animated buttons at the side.  I think it looks great--but takes several minutes to open.  This animated page, with the associated graphics files, is about Just to illustrate this, I have made another version of this page, with animated gold title at the top, and animated buttons at the side.  I think it looks great--but takes several minutes to open.  This page, with the associated graphics files, is about 1860 Kilobytes.  The version without the animation is 78.2 Kilobytes.

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