Of course, with so many browser variables, the best design
course is to leave some flexibility in your design.
Download Indicator
So, you??™ve built your Web masterpiece, and you??™ve just finished uploading the HTML, along with the 23
JPEGs, 8 audio files, and 3 Flash movies that make up the page. You open the page over the Internet and??”
surprise!??”it takes five minutes to download. Okay, this example is a tad extreme, but every Web developer
knows that opening a page from your hard drive and opening a page over the Internet are two vastly different
experiences. Dreamweaver has taken the guesswork out of loading a page from the Web by providing
the Download Indicator.
The Download Indicator is located to the right of the Window Size item on the status bar. As illustrated in
Figure 3-9, Dreamweaver gives you two values, separated by a slash character:
n The cumulative size of the page, including all the associated graphics, plugins, and multimedia
files, measured in kilobytes (K)
n The time it takes to download at a particular modem connection speed, measured in seconds (sec)
You can check the download size of any individual graphic by selecting it and looking at the
Property inspector??”you can find the file size in kilobytes next to the thumbnail image on
the left.
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