Bladewiz -- Your web site...

I know this is not the place to discuss web design, but you did mention in one of your posts that you'd like some tips on speeding up the load time for your site. I took a look at your HTML and graphics (on the home page only) and found a few things that can increase the speed by about 900% or so.

Layout Complexity
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41 TD (table data) tags at the top of your HTML breaks the page into 41 columnar cells. Subsequently, depending on where you place text or graphics, the browser must calculate COLSPAN's across up to 41 cells in order to position the text or graphics.

Document Weight in Kilobytes
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Document: 13.31 KB
Dependecies (graphics, etc.): 701.95 KB
Total Load: 715.26 KB

Load Time Approximations
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14.4 modem: 447.0 seconds
28.8 modem: 223.5 seconds
56.6 modem: 111.8 seconds

Graphics
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You are using HUGE graphics that take way too long to download. For instance cftanto.jpg has an actual width of 2288 pixels and an actual height of 1488 pixels. The file size is 226,161 KB. Even though you have specified a height of 64 pixels and a width of 125 pixels for display size, the browser still has to download the 2288 x 1488 file. I can see that you were intending for it to be a thumbnail shot with a link. On your thumbnails, you need to have an actual second smaller graphic that is 64 x 125 pixels. In JPEG format it would be more like a 7 KB download as opposed to 226 KB.

If you need some help, email me. I'm a part-time bladesmith, but my real job is an information technologies specialist for IBM, which is just a bunch of big words that mean that I get paid to play on computers. I've got a little background in web site design.

Terry Primos
primos@shreve.net http://www.shreve.net/~primos
 
Jerry Hossom

Jerry Hossom

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Not fair, Terry! Knifemakers are supposed to be computer dummies, like me. I just draw the stuff in Microsoft Publisher and it writes the HTML for me. Mindless, I like that.

On graphics though, there is a program called Hemera NetGraphics (mine came with my HP scanner). It will take any graphic in almost any format, and turn it into .gif's or .jpg's of whatever size you specify. It's also Jerry-proof.

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Jerry Hossom
www.hossom.com
 
... or if the JPG format is still too large after conversion, I can help out by chopping it down even further, with little or no loss in quality.
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Let me know if I can help.

Dan
 
Bryn,
I resized your graphics and uploaded them to my web server. Click on the link below to access the files. I added a "t" to the filename on each graphic for "thumbnail". That way when you save them, they won't overwrite your original files. You'll find them at:
http://www.shreve.net/~primos/bryn/

Please email me and let me know when you no longer need them. Then I can free up the space on my web server.

Terry Primos
 
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