When a detailed menu is used, image navigation bars produce 100s of images, totaling 100s of megabytes.
I made an image navigation bar on one of my websites, and the menu had around 100 entries.
The problem is... I only used 2 images for the menu: 1 for the primary, and 1 for the secondary (sub) menu. Both around 3 kb.
Now, i was really surprised not only after seeing that NOF produced a png image for each and every menu entry (home, about us, episode guide, season 1, season 2, season 3...), but it also did create 4 duplicates for highlighted, rollover stages etc... But.. i didn't set a different rollover image at all..
Finally, my menu totaled a whopping 1.2 megabytes to load.. My font?? It was verdana.. Why not use just 2 images for the background, and put text on it???????
Someone please explain this to me.
I am seriously thinking of buying NetObjects, just to tell a few words to those people who doesn't make appropriate tests on the software :-) Guys, there is something called 'page load time', and Google penalize you because of that.. I can't remember how fast I removed this menu right after noticing that 400 menu images and saw that their size total to 1.2 megabytes. It was like a joke!