Lynn, your site is looking good! Glad to see that you've added currency into a few of the pics to give an idea of scale. And I like how you've worked it so that clicking on a knife in one of the main pages gives a larger pic and the available options and prices -- perhaps these sub-pages could duplicate the knife specs (blade length/thickness, etc.) too, so that everything about a given knife was in one place? Provide potential customers with something to print out and stick up on the wall, as it were. Just a thought...
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am having a bit of trouble with load times, and with getting all the pics on a various pages to load... it looks like you're using your large "detail" images on the gallery pages, with instructions in the IMG tags to make them appear smaller.
This causes two problems: 1) a bunch of 250 KB images make the page load slowly over modem lines, and 2) the browser doesn't do the world's best job of reducing down the images, so, for instance, the small pic of the new Marksman comes out looking way more grainy than it should.
The fix for both problems is simple (if a bit tedious): make a copy of your set of "detail" images and reduce them down to the display size you want in your gallery pages, using whatever image manipulation program you have at hand -- it'll make prettier reductions than the browser can, and then someone pulling down one of the gallery pages will get five or six 50 KB files, instead of five or six 250 KB files (they'll only get one of the 250 KB files when they click on a particular knife for details). The upside is faster page load times and less bandwidth used (if you're fighting a bandwidth quota). The downside, of course, is twice as many image files to maintain.
A few questions, if I may ... either just for my own edification, or as things to explain on the website:
- What is the "red, black or white liner" option? Sounds like maybe a layer of contrasting micarta between handle slabs and tang, is that right?
- Does the Tek-Lok work reasonably on the "back up" series of knives, or are the sheaths a bit on the small side for it?
- What is the "Clip" option, that's separate from the belt-loop and Tek-Lok?
Dang, here I was thinking I wanted a Sniper, and then you had to go and make it a big brother, the Marksman. Decisions, decisions ...
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