Decreaseing Loader Time on a Header Image

[janissaire]

Hi,

Just trying to figure out a way to load a large header image faster.

image is 750x300 px.

I'd like to slice it so that it's in smaller chunks. and then those chunks join together to finish the picture.

Any indeas?

[rstevenson]

If your only reason for slicing it is to make it load faster, that has been shown to have no significant effect -- unless you anticipate a lot of dial-up customers.

Best bet is to optimize the image. I just tried a test image the same size. It was 881 Kb before optimizing and 46.7 Kb after, with no apparent reduction in visual quality.

Rob