Development Seed Blog

Don't for get load time! Web standards are vastly helping us to design sites that improve accessibility for more and more people. However while more and more of the North is running on cable/DSL/T1 lines we might start to forget that bandwidth is a valuable commodity is a lot of the world

I was talking to a freelance designer for template mock ups, and to make sure she was considerate of loading pages I ask her what the size of the last template was that she just completed for for a programmer.

designer: “200-300”
me: “300 Kbs?”
designer: “No megabits. they are much bigger than Kbs”
me: “the template that you sent him was 300 megabits?”
designer: “Yeah I just zipped it and emailed it to him”
me: “And what size is the template going to be when it is on the website not as just one graphic”
designer: “i don't know... probably the same right?”

... so of course the template would not have been too large.. probably not much worst than 100-200kbs... but the point is that way to many good designers (her work is great) have no idea about load time!