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Working on my site a little bit. I have a cable modem so it loads for me real quick. Just wondering how bad it is with a dial up connection. Please let me know, thanks!
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No slower than the average site!, if not slightly faster.
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Looks great Amy. Some of the links, like the "Samples" page, are still pointing to a local file on your computer, you'll need to fix that for the uploaded files to be viewed
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Nice job Amy. It loaded in good time on my old 56k modem. The sample page loaded ok for me. The message that you were still working on it loaded quickly.
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Way back when (about 5 years ago) I could write HTML code like crazy. I am so out of practice and forgot almost everything.
So basically, I am using a cheater program to make this one because of time restraints. It's called PhotoImpact 6. I believe you can download a trial version at www.ulead.com
It's super easy but I hate how it saves everything as images rather than converting them to html. That is why I was curious how fast it's loading. With my cable modem it's had to judge.
By the way, your little one liner story idea was real neat!
I was just asking because of a few things that I picked up when viewing the site... that's all... besides the fact that it was all done in graphics...
Did you use meta tags, so that a search will pick up the site? Or did the program do that for you also??? Just curious, coz I do all of my html stuff with raw code, and, for a guy at the moment, am editing a webpage previously done in frontpage (god it puts in so much excess code!!!!)
Does this program also find it nice to put in a hell of a lot of uneccesary coding, or does it keep it simple? Just wondering, because I like checking around different web page development software
Oh, and was the design from a templated design, where you simply choose the colours, or did you design that yourself also???
Just curious
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It's 9 seconds for me on cable. It's the animated graphic and the popup banner window that slow it down. But for everthing there, it's pretty quick. I like the color scheme. Looks good.
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I don't know Amy - it was slow as molasses here and I'm on cable too. Perhaps the server you are using is slow - and those banner ads are a big load time drain too.
I noticed you're building individual html pages for all your secondary pages. You may want to develop a template for the navigation pages, so that those graphics don't reload on every secondary page. Right now, it seems as though they need to rebuild the same graphics each page load. Using a template for the nav would eliminate that.
I assume when you get banner ads on the top, that they host your site for free? Even so, I think it doesnt do you site justice, and really distracts the viewer.
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