• Choosing images
• Adjusting Images
• Optimising Images
• Text Layout Styles
• Adding Media Files

Adding Sound, Documents And Animation

Including media into you web pages can help captivate and impress your audience.

Each piece of media you add increases the time it takes for your page to download and appear to your visitor. Choosing when and where to add media is important.

Displaying the media

Often, our Content Management clients can add their media easily and quickly from their secure control panel. This creates the pure code necessary to carry out the process.

Movies should always be presented to your visitor at their request by the clicking of a link or navigation to a movie page.

File size is one element that needs considered. For a dial up (56K) visitor 2MB takes 9 minutes to download, whilst a standard broad band visitor (512k) will see the file in 23 seconds. 2MB will provide a short 20 - 40 second clip.

Streaming long movies

Whilst a small movie can give a short visual effect, a longer film is needed to accommodate more than a minutes footage. Such media is perfect for instruction movies, tours of your premises and marketing messages.

Our developers and technical staff are on hand to supply and configure space on a special server to accommodate such media. Visitors to your site, especially broadband ones, are then able to view your movie whilst it is being downloaded, this "streaming" ensures the best experience for your audience without much expense to you.

Benefits of a streaming server

• Visitors with slower connections are more fully accomodated
• Video and audio quality is mainatained
• Content copyright is protected as no download takes place
• Corporate firewalls accept viewing as no download takes place
• Other advanced features can be implemented ......... Full comparison here

Please contact us on 0845 330 2550 to discuss whether media will help your site reach your goals.

Adding media wisely

As a "Content Management System" client, adding media is easy via your control panel. Whether it adds sufficient value to your page, is the key.