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The HTML language allows you to add all kinds of tricks and effects to your pages, including animated or moving elements, background music, flickering words, live video etc etc etc.
Our advice is: do not start from these. Keep you pages simple and “clean” of all “bells and whistles”. Firstly they often just distract the users from the message that you are trying to get through. Secondly, not all users will be having the newest browser programs that understand all these commands and users of old programs will see most weird errors on your pages. For instance if you divide your pages into several separate individual “frames” as some do and then somebody who has an old “non-frames” browser he or she will not see anything at all but just an empty page !
Thirdly we should always also remember our friends in far away regions with poor and slow connectivity. A page with all the tricks and whistles will be large and take a long time to load. Text will be OK with even the most terrible line connections but large pictures and animations will clog the line totally.
Also, keep the picture elements small, with just a few colours. This dramatically reduces transmission time to distant readers.
