My website

jibbajabba · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:31 am Post subject: My website

Hi peeps.. i used to run my website with freewebs but i got bored of them so i needed a web server of my own so i browsed abit and found this site and ive been using abyss for 4 days now. also i had to start from scratch on my site so here it is http://www.jibba-jabba.net

PWD · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 7:16 am Post subject:

I'm a commercial website developer...so it might just be my anal-retentiveness, but I would fix the following:

1)53 Validation Errors (Follow this link) You're alienating a huge audience.

2) Ditch the table structure you're using for presentation and move it in CSS. Tables are for separating data, not marking up webpages. Your file sizes are probably huge. I have one of the fastest internet connections known to man and it takes forever to load.

Great color scheme..(I LOVE black and white!)
Good graphics. (I'm not a huge Flash fan...just me though)
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AbyssUnderground · - Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 3855

Took 14 seconds to load, Im in UK on 2Mbps NTL Broadband.
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jibbajabba · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 3:49 pm Post subject:

jibbajabba · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject:

PWD · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 4:08 pm Post subject:

Sorry I was typing kind of fast last night...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the governing body which writes and implements standards for the programming of websites. Most browsers (except for Internet Explorer) follow these rules on how websites should be programmed. There are half a dozen different browsers is use today. Programming your html to be compliant to these rules, will allow your website to be viewed by more people using all the different browsers.

Where do you validate your code?

At the W3C website: http://validator.w3.org

What about Internet Explorer?

Well, it's still possible to program good html and still acommodate Internet Explorer users. You just need to pay attention to the little tricks put forth by tutorial authors.

Where do you start?

Start with a few good books on both html and Cascading Style Sheets or search Google for html and css tutorials.

P.S. 14 seconds is kind of slow
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AbyssUnderground · - Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 3855

14 seconds for a home broadband connection is actually quite good, my site takes about 8 seconds to load to begin with. Once it is in the cache it is almost instant for a different page since every page follows the same template.

To make the site even faster, I suggest you add gzip compression if you havent already (requires php) and make any images you use as small as possible in filesize with a program such as Adobe Phototshop, The Gimp or Paint Shop Pro.

Both of those together will create a very fast website.
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richardyork · - Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 410 Location: United Kingdom

jibbajabba · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject:

when viewing my site it only takes about 2-3 secs to load up but i suppose thats because the server is on the pc. i do also think i need to defragment the pc and fix any errors so maybe that will make a difference. and thank you all for the replys i'm really enjoying abyss

Arctic · - Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 560

2-3 seconds for me.

jibbajabba · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 4:01 pm Post subject:

really? what time did you go on cos from 12 or 1am GMT i can't remember but it was in that time zone i had rebooted pc and went to bed so pc was idle all night.
i'm hoping bt upgrade the speeds again soon. i've heard they are trialing 10mbps down and 4mbps up which would be fantastic for hosting a website/s . i know that ntl and telewest are upgrading to 10mbps down not sure about the upload i think its in the region of 350k but that could change if all things go well.. anyway look at me getting all talkative lol.

AbyssUnderground · - Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 3855

My upload speed on NTL is 256Kbps (about 25KB/s) but my websites are all limited to 10KB/s so I dont slow down my Dad browsing (he gets cross when he doesnt win something on eBay because of me using all the upload!).

It just sounds like you were using the PC a lot when I visited but like I said, 14 seconds isnt a long time for a broadband-hosted website.

Where did you hear this report that NTL were trialing 10Mbps down/4Mbps up? i would definately get that if I could!
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jibbajabba · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 4:18 pm Post subject:

bt are trialing 10mbps down and 4mbps up.. NTL and telewest are upgrading to 10mbps.. telewest are upgrading customers now but NTL will start by end of the year. if you want more info visit here and view the message boards http://www.adslguide.org.uk
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AbyssUnderground · - Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 3855

OK, thanks, I mis read the post ;-)
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jibbajabba · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:11 am Post subject: Redone my site

Alright i've redone my site well kind off.. i've got a few more pages to finish but i'm too tired to do em now so i'll do em later on when i wake up...
10am now so site should be back at around 7pm.. it's just a under construction page at the moment. when you check it out later let me know if its better than what i had before!!

Cheers.. off to bed now woohoooo
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