The rules:

  • No plug-in technology
  • Very short page download times
  • Compatibility with almost all browsers
  • Light, airy design
    •     The site you are looking at, our very own, was a challenge in design and in technology.

       Plug in animation and interactivity such as Macromedia's FLASH and the RealNetwork RealPlayer are popular because they help add interactivity to a website. These technologies share one common drawback. Not every browser can see them.

       In order to use these technologies, a user must download and install them properly. This requires a somewhat technically savvy user. By using a mixture of old fashioned animation and simple trickery Jeremy Horland Studio accomplishes the same interactivity without such hassles

       For this site, we set a page download maximum of 60k per page. That's less than 10 seconds per page on a clear 56k modem connection!

       If you are looking at websites on a Windows 98 computer, you may be seeing a different web page than a Windows 95 user would. They both may be different from a Mac user's page. Even on the same computer, a website may look different in AOL than it does in Netscape or the Microsoft web browser.

       Even after we script each page and reduce each element, we look at every page in every browser long before we declare it done. From Windows systems to Mac to different UNIX like systems, we test, tweak, re-test and re-test again before we consider a single web page done.