Recommend change F13launch image to JPEG to reduce download time and add text link to F13 Tour

Al Thomas astavale at yahoo.co.uk
Sun May 16 10:51:28 UTC 2010


Hi,

The current main image on http://stg.fedoraproject.org/ is a 200K PNG.

This can easily be reduced in size 10 times to a 20K JPEG with negligible reduction in image quality, i.e. 'Explore Fedora's possibilities' is still readable. Just need to make sure the transparent corners are changed to white to match the background.

Also the F13 release banner could do with the same treatment.

I can see both images being visibly drawn line by line as I download the page and I'm on a fast broadband connection. To the casual browser on a slower connection the page could be unbearably slow.

Usually the Fedora release tour is really informative but to have no textual link to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_tour means this is hidden for many people who quickly scan the page. I only found it after attempting to redesign the F12 release front page! Just a change to 

What's new in Fedora 13?  Take the <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_tour">tour</a> and read the <a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f13/">release notes. &gt;&gt;</a>

instead of 

<a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f13/">What's new in Fedora 13?  Read the release notes. &gt;&gt;</a>

would at least make people aware there is more information available.

All the best for the release,

Al



      



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