This page will explain what I consider to be some "Do's and Dont's" of web page design. I'm not saying these are rules that are set in stone, just some observations from the various sites I have visited seeing what works and what doesn't.

     I guess this is more of a personal pet peeve than anything. How many times have you visited a site and spent what seemed like an eternity waiting for all the pictures to load? I realize this doesn't apply to the Broadband users as much as it does to the Dial-up users, but waiting for a 500k picture to load seems like an eternity. I'm sure that visually stunning bitmap you took of little Johnny riding his bike is material worthy of a Nobel prize, but convert it to a .jpg or .gif and try to get it down to a more manageable size. There are several free services on the net that will allow you to upload your favorite pictures of little Johnny, and they will spit out image files that can be compressed as much as 90% in filesize without noticeable quality loss.

     This can serve 2 purposes, first of all, you aren't going to lose visitors because they don't feel like waiting to see 97 500kb pictures of little Johnny load. Secondly, you don't have to worry about your ISP or web space provider sending you an excessive bandwidth bill. Sure, some ISP/Space Providers are nice enough to just close your page when you reach a certain threshold(ever seen a Geocities or Yahoo! site that has been temporarily closed because it met its daily bandwidth allowance?) but some would rather NOT tell you so they can send you that nice big fat bandwidth bill at the end of the month. That is not a bill you will be looking forward too either, bandwidth is generally not cheap.