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Multi-Media
Do you offer streaming media?
Can
I have a web cam display on my site?
Do you support Flash?
Do you support Java?
How do movie files affect my bandwidth?
Can I play music on my website?
What programs do you recommend for creating graphics for the
web?
What do you mean by ‘optimized’ graphics?
Do you offer streaming media?
We
do not have a streaming server, however, we have many
clients who play Real Audio and Real Video, as well Web
Cams.
Can
I have a web cam on my site?
You can have a web cam on your site. However, the
refresh time cannot be lower than every 5 minutes.
How do movie files affect my bandwidth?
Movie files eat up bandwidth. If you average movie is
2 megs and your visitors download it five times a day, then
that's 10 megs a day equaling 300 megs in an average
month. For a Plan A account that's 1/3 of the allotted
bandwidth.
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Do you support Flash?
Yes. We support Flash and Shockwave.
Do
you support Java?
Coastline supports Java applets but not servlets, as
executables are not allowed to operate on the server.
Can I play music on my website?
You can play Real Audio and regular background music (wav
files) on your site.
What programs do you recommend for creating graphics for the
web?
There are many excellent graphics programs that fall within an
enormous range of prices. We haven't found any good free
programs, but we have found great ones for under
$60.
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Photoshop
is King for a reason. It is the best overall program
for digital graphics and photography. We use Photoshop
to optimize all of our web images and create the vast
majority of buttons, bars, backgrounds, etc. Photoshop
has excellent capabilities for optimizing
graphics.
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Painter6
is the best for creating pure imagery. Both of
these programs are high end graphic programs (which means
expensive, by the way). If you are on a budget, don't
give up. There are some excellent programs that can
be 1/5 the price.
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PaintShopPro
is an excellent graphics program that offers many creative
options and still keeps layers.
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PhotoPlus6
is a much less expensive program than PhotoShop and offers
some excellent features, as well.
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What do you mean by ‘optimized’ graphics?
An optimized graphic is the smallest version that picture
can be without being mush. The exact formula varies by
the image. Generally, with a little manipulation in
PhotoShop, you can take a 70K image (that could take 3
seconds alone to download) to 25K and still have the image
look great. It may not seem like much in terms of
download savings, but if you have 5 images on your home page
and each takes 3 seconds to download, your visitor is gone
before your site is even done downloading.
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