NewsLetter for Monday April 14th, 2003

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Take Your Banners to the Limit

By Vic Spindler

Experts agree. Colorful, animated graphics are key to creating an effective banner. Yet animated banners can be thousands of kilobytes large — far in excess of the 10-kilobyte (KB) limit imposed by most sites.

The secret to creating great banners is keeping within limits while producing an attractive and dynamic image.

Come to Terms

Pixels. The term pixel is a contraction of the words picture, or pix, and element, or el. It refers to the number of picture elements a device is capable of reproducing within an inch of screen size. On the Web, it is 72 pixels per inch. Exact limitations differ from site to site, so ask the site owner for specifics before you start. Currently, the most popular banner size is 468 pixels wide by 60 pixels high.

Loops. Many site owners are skeptical of flashing, twinkling banners because they distract viewers from site content. To make sure your banner is accepted, it's wise to limit animation to one or two cycles, or loops. This means your animation can run from beginning to end only once or twice, after which the banner becomes static.

File size. For optimal download, site owners typically limit banners to 10 kilobytes. This refers to the banner's file size or amount of information contained in the graphic. Every time a new color is used, more bytes are added to the byte total. In addition, every time the graphic changes, more kilobytes are needed. All visible pixels add to the total.

Strategy, Strategy

First, graphics should be compressed as much as possible. Compression refers to the removal of colors so close in hue, saturation and brightness that they are nearly indistinguishable from surrounding colors. Removing these colors doesn't usually affect the overall appearance of the image, but the removal reduces the number of bytes required to render the graphics. You can manually smudge or fill specific areas to compress them further.

In addition, remember that when creating animation, you begin with a background and add layers. All visible pixels add to the total. This means if each layer is 468 by 60 pixels, the total byte size will be very large indeed.

Avoid this problem by changing only small elements with each additional layer. Rely on movement to create a dynamic banner. Use solid colors and let the movement and the message carry the day.

 

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Watch This Space

Let's look at a banner ad created for our company and review the steps we went through to meet the 10 KB limit.

We built 13 steps or layers to create the animation. Because all visible pixels add to the total, if each of the 13 layers were 468 by 60 pixels, the total byte size would be enormous. To solve this problem, the only layer we created at full size was the background. Using Photoshop, we created each additional step on a separate layer.

We wanted our selling points to add themselves one by one in a series of steps.

On the next layer we created the first step of the build, using a small rectangle with the word "intuition." Because only visible pixels add to the total, we used the color palette to limit the total number of colors to black, white and couple of shades of gray for smoothness. We compressed the number of colors using Photoshop's ImageReady until you see the image begin to degrade.

After two more similar layers, one for "education" and one for "science," we used two versions of the "and chance" layer, one at half brightness and one at full brightness. This was to provide a change in rhythm.

Movements in graphics are like music; you set up a beat and create excitement with variations and counterpoints. Bang, bang, bang, zoom!

Photo Finish

Then we wiped the board clean to build the finale.

There are two ways to change your background. You can put down another complete background, which means using a lot of pixels, or you can overlay graphics the exact size needed to mask what's already there — in this case the small black box, right, and the blue oval, left.

Next we added a smaller white oval and our logo. Using Photoshop, our last additions were a filter-generated "swipe" on top of the right-hand black box for a transitional step and, finally, the tag line.

By compressing our graphics as much as possible, changing only small elements of the graphic and relying on movement to catch the viewer's eye, we created an effective banner within the common 10 KB limit.

You can do the same.

 


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