Slideshow

To keep the file size of 'slideshow.swf' below 200k, it was necessary to reduce the quality of the images to the minimum acceptable level. There are 18 graphic images averaging about 9.5k each. Final size: 174k.

When first created in 1999, most of the world was on dialup. The main movie: default.swf is only 19k, so the homepage loads quickly. Although the size of the slideshow is large, images appear quickly. Instead of waiting for the entire slideshow to download before displaying, it was designed to loop showing only the parts that have already downloaded.

Preloaders

Most of my Flash preloaders are text based. Here are a couple graphic preloaders. 

Displayed while the original Duval toolbar
loaded external graphics (1k).

At right is one version of
the Gears preloader (5k).

 
Below is a typical progress bar preloader.