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harl
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 Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 3:10 am Post subject: officialbass.com |
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ok, my site is powered by abyss (and proud to say, as its the post idiot proof one out there!) and i was woundering if you guys could give some suggestions for what i could do to make the site better
www.officialbass.com
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p3
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 3:44 am Post subject: |
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| Load time is hellacious, and page is butcherd in IE AND FF |
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harl
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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ya i know, i changed it now, it should work in both without the buttons falling down
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cmxflash
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Why the hell did you put your text into a BMP-image? BMPs are big, big means it's slow to load and wastes a lot of bandwidth. |
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harl
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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im sorry if im a first timer at this, and i would rather do it my way, its easier to edit then inserting it into a editor
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Using a BMP to render font and layout on a website is not a particularly good idea. Firstly it will hog your bandwidth, and more importantly you will ose a lot of potential of users due to the slow load time. Try using a WYSIWYG editor such as NVU - http://www.nvu.com/. You can create table based, or even CSS based layouts using this editor. If you still want to use images in the layout, crop them to size and save them as jpeg as gif, in a suitable compression. |
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harl
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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i think for now, ill just chnage them to jpeg, cause it went from 1257 kb to 28 on the index! thanks for the idea, ill change them all around, and it will hopefully increase the speed of the site
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harl
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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ok, i did it, it seems to be going fast, i think
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pixalz
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| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:41 am Post subject: |
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Tried to check out your site but the video was taken ages to load. You might want to give the option of manual download for the video cause having it as you do will turn off people from visiting your site.
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harl
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| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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the video should work now, and i changed around some stuff on how the site looks, i made the banner spot 120x600, the standard for ads, and a couple other things, enjoy
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kev1952
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 1:33 pm Post subject: Re: officialbass.com |
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| harl wrote: | | ok, my site is powered by abyss (and proud to say, as its the post idiot proof one out there!) and i was woundering if you guys could give some suggestions for what i could do to make the site better.... |
I'd like to get a look at the site but every time I try it times out. Any idea why?
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harl
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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it should work now, i guess it was because i had to change the site around so if i get people paying to put ads on, they would be able to put the standard 120x600
www.officialbass.com
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kev1952
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Finally got there - neat site! Is there some way you could give some sort of progress indicator when downloading the video(s)? The only way you can tell it's still loading is via the modem lights in the tray (if you have them turned on).
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harl
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| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:55 am Post subject: |
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the videos, i changed the format of them, and they should work right away when you get to the site
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