[thelist] Site Evaluation - Crush Kill Destroy + URL

Tue Jul 4 02:03:41 CDT 2000

<1>
Ok.
The 2nd beta version of my company's site is up.
I would appreciate it if some kind souls would take a look & Rip It to
Shreds.
http://www.vianet.net.au/~dante
I'd like some feedback on :
-download speed.
-functionality in browsers: N4 & up, PC & Mac etc.
-opinions on design.
-any serious problems/flaws.
-CSS errors.
-Javascript problems.
etc.

<2>
I've used a Javascript array to preload my images:
//Preloader
function ImgGlobal() {
  if(document.images) {
    globals = new Array();
        globals[1] = new Image(400,360); globals[1].src = "logo.gif";
        globals[2] = new Image(560,10); globals[2].src = "spacer.gif";
        //etc
        globals[20] = new Image(100,100); globals[20].src = "dot.gif";
    }
}
Is this the most efficient method of preloading?
Is there a problem with having 2 preloader codes.
- one with globally used images in the external global.js file.
- the other with page specific images added to the html output by a SSI
include.
The images load up very fast (esp. on N4.6) but there seems to be a lot of
activity after they are all in the cache.

<3>
Is anyone aware of a WC3 Doctype called <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD
Proprietary//EN"> ?
I've forgotten where I've heard about it but can't seem to find it on the
www.w3.org site.

Thanks,
            dante

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 I N F E R N A L      D E S I G N S 
   Multimedia & Internet Marketing
   URL: www.vianet.net.au/~dante
     Contact: dante at vianet.net.au
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