Look at this page banner.*
*You didn't expect me to leave out a banner did you, I paid good money for that program.

If I just had that on my home page.



I am never satisfied with my web pages. I surf here and there and get ideas about how great my pages would be "if I just had that on my home page".  I thought that animated GIF's were the neatest thing, I just had to stick them all over my pages. Then I discovered how much they slowed down my browser. I then decided to be more careful with these animations  and only use those that were important to the pages content and not just entertainment for me.

Fancy backgrounds were neat but made it difficult to read the text in a lot of cases. Plain colors are much more readable. How about JAVA scripts, they were fun and had there place too. Raise your hand if you experimented with frames. I still like them if they're not too complex. Sounds on a page are neat too, but if the music is long I always try to make it optional. I never did try forms but may in the future.

After I got my scanner and later my digital camera I thought that personal pictures were the neatest thing since the Pet Commodore.  But once more they slow down my browser, I guess a link to my pictures would be better. Picking one picture at a time is much better  than waiting for a whole page of pictures to download.

Page counters, guest books, banners and whatnot are of course optional but I like them most of the time. Of course when no one visits or signs your book it can be discouraging. Well I guess I'll back to surfing so I can find something else to add to my pages.