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Hi

I've just built my first very basic website which is somewhat slow to load.
There are only a couple of pictures on each page... any suggestions
(hopefully simple ones) on how I can speed it up???

address is: www.blackwattleretreat.com.au

Thanks :)
 
Did you shrink your images down in frontpage with the resize function.

If so, this doesn't actually decrease the file size.

You should make low resolution thumbnails of your images and bring them in
to your home page and link them to the high resolution files.

Hope this helps.

Also, you may want to look into learning about tables. Floating your
content across the site without tables will make it hard to determine the
actual layout on other browsers and sreen resolutions.

Nice start for a newbie though.

Michael

good luck
 
Michael Hemphill said:
Did you shrink your images down in frontpage with the resize function.

If so, this doesn't actually decrease the file size.

You should make low resolution thumbnails of your images and bring them in
to your home page and link them to the high resolution files.

Hope this helps.

Also, you may want to look into learning about tables. Floating your
content across the site without tables will make it hard to determine the
actual layout on other browsers and sreen resolutions.

Nice start for a newbie though.

Michael

good luck
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Michael is right. Your images are approximately 833 KB. Edit in an image
editing program, delete the existing images and insert new. The image should
be in the 20 to 30 KB range.
 
Michael Hemphill said:
Did you shrink your images down in frontpage with the resize function.

If so, this doesn't actually decrease the file size.

You should make low resolution thumbnails of your images and bring them in
to your home page and link them to the high resolution files.

Hope this helps.

Also, you may want to look into learning about tables. Floating your
content across the site without tables will make it hard to determine the
actual layout on other browsers and sreen resolutions.

Nice start for a newbie though.

Michael

good luck
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I would certainly like to spend a few weeks in the facility.
I suggest that you download and install the following browsers for a cross
check of your site. Netscape, Opera and Firefox. You will see vast
differences from one to another.

Also, change the text to the name of your site: <title>New Page 1</title>

Finally, did you create the page in MS Word and then paste into FrontPage?
There are tons of extraneous code that make one suspect that you did. Copy
and Paste Special will eliminate that.
 
You need to resize your images in a photo editing program. Your spa.gif
file, for example, is over 800 KB in size. For a 56k modem, that represents
about a two minute download. Photos with lots of colors and detail are
usually best stored as jpg files and not gifs. A gif images is limited to a
total of 256 colors. Even at small sizes, a photo that would really need
lots of colors may look rather bad due to the choices needed for the color
pallette. Jpg files can have 16.7 million colors and have built-in
compression so you can reduce the size of the output file by balancing the
compression/quality. Just make sure that you fully shrink the files down to
the dimensions needed before placing them into the page.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
 
Chuck Davis said:
I would certainly like to spend a few weeks in the facility.
I suggest that you download and install the following browsers for a cross
check of your site. Netscape, Opera and Firefox. You will see vast
differences from one to another.

Also, change the text to the name of your site: <title>New Page 1</title>

Finally, did you create the page in MS Word and then paste into FrontPage?
There are tons of extraneous code that make one suspect that you did. Copy
and Paste Special will eliminate that.

Howdy
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Thanks for your help... I have photoshop so can certainly shrink photos down
to smaller files.

Downloaded Netscape to view the site and it looks really weird!!! How do I
stop stuff from moving around like that??

With regard to 'extraneous code' I created the entire thing in Frontpage...
But I've never used it before and found it a little difficult layout wise.
The green and white background of my page is in a table... but that's about
it.

Suggestions, suggestions, suggestions...

Thanks again

:D
 
Downloaded Netscape to view the site and it looks really weird!!! How do
I
stop stuff from moving around like that??
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It ain't easy. It requires some knowledge of HTML and CSS to do it
correctly. I'm assuming that you are basically a beginner with HTML and CSS.
Of course, you will have to learn. You can simply study both of them, or,
one "shortcut" technique is to simply preview the page in both browsers and
edit the pages until they look the same. While doing this, observe the HTML
and CSS that FrontPage generates. This way you will eventually learn enough
to make your web site look right. You may or may not wish to continue your
study.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
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