[Leica] Re: Tina's new web page; too much technology

["Michael D. Turner" <mike@lcl-imaging.com>]

Tina Manley wrote:

> At 04:32 AM 2/21/99 -0500, you wrote:
>   Sure enough, it seems
> >that whoever did Tina's web page with her was so technology-mad that there's
> >a Java applet serving a purpose which would be far better served by simple
> >HTML hyperlinks: little buttons labelled "Portfolios", "Statement", etcetera
> >appeared.
>
> Actually, Jeff, I'm already rewriting it that way.  It should be back up
> without Java by tomorrow.  I put those Java applets in using MS FrontPage,
> not realizing that all computers can't handle it.   I've got a cable modem
> and everything is super fast so it's hard to judge how long the loading
> takes on other computers.  I use a ProJPEG program to prepare the images
> that tells me how many seconds it takes depending on how fast your
> connection is.  I tried to keep it below 10 seconds at 28.8.  If somebody
> would let me know how close it is, I would appreciate it.  I reduced the
> sizes of most of the photos so they will fit on a small screen, too.  I
> hated to do that because I like them large, but I don't want people to have
> to scroll to see them either.
> <snip>

Beautiful work, Tina. Your subjects are obviously very comfortable with you. The
black and white images seem much more powerful to me than the sepia ones. Amazing
how the tone impacts the mood.

I too had not been able to get past the first image with either IE4 or Netscape 4
on my Windows system--the Java VM on my system is "broken". From my Linux system
(running Netscape) I had no problem at all viewing your portfolio. The image
downloads were maybe 5-6 seconds on my 56k modem (my connections are usually only
about 34k).

Thanks for the opportunity to view your photographs; will be looking forward to
more!

- -Mike