Thread: small file size shapes

Hello,
This may have been discussed before but...
If you start out with a small file size .gif format of solid color and save it as an image, you can then open it in BV and stretch it to any size without a corresponding increase in electronic file size.
I have made a page with examples and samples free for the taking.

www.zone5pix.com/images-shapes.html

email (link on page) for a special request.

Hi, handy tip. I have been meaning to see what methods are quicker to make pages load quicker for a wile now. So i took your page & duplicated it using tables. Was quite surprised to see the Kb's for the page where even halved again. To just a few KB. Will have to look at the tables side a bit more as the one thing i couldn't get was a thin line using BV tables. Still interesting to see what ways there are to speed things up.
Link to page i was messing with & a larger one to see if the KB's changed. LINK 1 LINK 2

Yes, your linked pages have increased almost 10X.

Hi Carbon Terry ... looks good ... any chance of gradients? That'd be great, I find inserting a gradient shape in BV ends up being enormous and really holds things up ... when can we expect them? lol

Sorry, gradients do not work this way!!!

Gradients will work!!!!!!

Bless you CarbonTerry! You "da MAN"! LOL :)

P.S. And a great big THANK YOU to PlayItByBeer!

Your welcome!!

Great Tip Terry, I must admit I didn't think of doing this up until about 6 months ago, but have been using this technique on all sites since and it has made a dramatic change is speed for all my pages. A good tip that everyone should take heed of.