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I'm occasionally asked how much disk space a home page takes, or how big a specific page is. The amount of space a page takes depends on the size of the text file that generates it, the size of a graphics file used to create a textured or pictorial background and icons, and any related files stored locally for downloading. Advanced pages using forms which accept input require additional space, both for the form scripts/executable files, and space to store the data files. HTML code uses a neat trick to keep page size smaller (the smaller the page, the faster it transmits to your browser over the internet). . Rather than loading a big graphic to "paint" over your entire screen, many backgrounds are "tiled". The browser downloads a small file and repeats it until the screen is filled. Microsoft Windows does the same trick with .BMP files (bitmap images) for the desktop background. On this page, I use a small file, rainbow.jpg, which tiles to fill the screen. On some pages, I just play around with the 6-digit RGB number you can specify for background color. Since each digit can be one of sixteen characters: 0-9 and A-F (it's hexi-decimal-based), there are a LOT of choices . . . I always did want that 64 color box of Crayola Crayons. For the curious, I've listed some page and graphic file sizes of my home pages. |
| File Name | Size in Bytes | Graphic Name | Size in Bytes |
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| Main Page (index.asp) | 4,873 | rainbow.jpg | 3,015 |
| Cookbook (cookbook.html) | 7,685 | book.gif | 203 |
| Humor (humor.html) | 5,346 | sm.gif | 243 |
| Music (music.html) | 3,221 | conwy1.jpg | 19,858 |
| Resume (resume.html) | 2,488 | chalk.jpg | 1,472 |
| Color Table (colortable.html) | 31,066 | manual.gif | 858 |