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I am designing a personal webpage from the ground up and am running into a strange problem...the one graphic I have so far is black and/or faded on loading of the page until you hit F5...does anyone know why this happens...or is it just happening here at the college?...please check out my page and tell me what happens and any ideas if possibe thanks...
http://www.lltc.org/student/solid_morph/
website looks fine 2 me
Must be something with the college`s computer worked fine for me when I checked should look good when your finished creating the page. Love the links.
Same here solid. . . . looks good. Must be the computer ur on.
I am building websites for several years. The code is fine. One of my customers had a similar problem to yours. Finaly we find out that the problem was in cache server, which was placed in their intranet.
But I would probably start with the caches on your computer. Try to delete all the caches, used by your browser + those in your OS system folder (in case you are windows user)
well, i tried emptying the cache to see if that works and seems to have so far...I don't know what I want to do with this page...it's for my webdesign class I'm taking at the college...its funny...the instructor is teaching the class using CoffeeCup...I don't like how you have to work with things in it...I guess I'm a hand coding sort of guy...and I have a while before it needs to be finished...but anyways...um...I was thinking in the bottom-left table I could place a few tutorials for people to look at...since I am into batch file creation...I thought it would be neat to offer some tutorials on the subject and maybe some example batch files...I don't know what else to do with it...anyone have any ideas?
similar to wiredandy, i've been building various types of sites for years. the one rule i always stick with is, post what you know. that way you always have good rich content. btw - your code looks good, (nice & tight). though you have a couple of tags in there you don't need. that's probably from CoffeCup though. otherwise you are off to a good start.
um....haven't even touched coffecup...i do everything by hand...can you point out which tags are not needed? any help would be appreciated...i love to learn :)
thanks for letting me know that my code is good...i've been working hard to learn how to do it the proper way...but I have a long way to go yet...i was thinking about adding flash to it...but I think thats the spoiled brat in me(i'm sitting on three t1's so i have plenty of bandwidth to go to flash sites...i guess i probably won't go with flash...but the thinkpot here...i may just have a good enough site to show off...thanks everyone in case anyone here who doesnt know me...I am also Solid_Morph...I've been phasing tripstone out considering that I've had the name for six or more years and now I see that other people are called tripstone as well...that sux....
flash is pretty cool to learn, but i am not a fan of using flash just for the sake of it. it's too time consuming and it also comes with some security issues. but if this for educational purposes, go for it. experience is the best teacher.
Hello Solid_Morph!
Good day to you! I checked your web page. Nothing is wrong with it. However, upon-loading, the background image of yours, did not appear immediately. It was the last to load. Your background image was a bitmap file that was too heavy in size. It was about 1.24 mb, which was not an advisable size for webpages.
I optimized your image by using Adobe Photoshop. I changed it into a high-resolution jpg image. From 1.24 mb, it was reduced to 25.5 kb. Bitmaps are much more heavier as compaired to gifs and jpgs. I can further reduce the size if you want. :)
Have Fun!!! :D
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if ya look at the source of my page you will notice that the background is actually a gif file...the size of which is 200k...if ya tried to save the background...it will save it to a .bmp extension...um...maybe the reason it loads last is because i have four tables(i think) that are all loading the same background individually...i guess i coud change that...i was going to go with frames...but i really don't like that...tables kinda suck to...i made the background with photoshop...simple yet beautiful(my opinion)...i now have it so that when ya hover over a link...it shrinks and changes color...so if ya are using Lynx...tough luck chuck...like i said before...i'm coding exclusively by hand...no editors...btw...if anyone is using netscape...what does it look like compared with explorer...im not using netscape at the moment...haven't checked how it works under netscape...
Hello Solid!
I checked your source code. It was gif indeed. Moreover, about the tables in relation to your background image and its loading. I suggest that you slice your image according to the size of each table. So that when your page loads the background image loads on each area of the page.
Have Fun!!!
200k...yikes...i've run whole sites on less than that...
my handy-dandy coldfusion studio document analyzer tells me that a document with a 200k pic is gonna take 200.4 seconds to dl on a 56k line... :eek:
rule of thumb for me is no page should load slower than 30 secs at the VERY longest...studies show that most people get tired of waiting after 10-15 secs.
here's your background...reduced to 28k
(which brings it's loading time to 5.4 secs on a 56k...)
I do aggree on that Zigar. 200 Kb is really large even if the file format is gif. :)
forgot the attach..
now the whole page is about 20k....how fast does it load now?
Here's the image :
In case you want a smaller image. I have attached a 16k version.
you're such a sweetie :cool:
oh ya...here's one that's 10k... :p
I did get it down to 8k....but it did however suffer a bit from compression...but hey it's SMALL!...hehe