[thelist] site check please

Paul Bennett paul at teltest.com
Mon Dec 8 14:27:35 CST 2003


Tony Crockford wrote:

> On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:56:45 +1300, Paul Bennett <paul at teltest.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> The visuals were designed by a local design company and I am 
>> concerned with some css breaking in browsers I can't test for, as 
>> well as long download times for some of the background images.
>> (feedback from non New Zealand people on dial-up would be great)
>> *Any* feedback is appreciated
>
>
> Layout is broken in Opera 7.23 on WinXP - I can screenshot if you want 
> it.
>
> I'm on ADSL and some of the pages take a while to come together. (esp 
> international students!) - dial up will be worse for sure.
>
> http://www.webpageanalyzer.com/ suggests a load time for that page of 
> around 25 seconds, plus build time. (built in test in Firebird - hope 
> your search results don't get screwed)
>
> on that page you've one gif for each flag - could they not be combined? 

the plan is to have all flags linking to translated sections of the site 
in the future

>
>
> Your CSS could have more shorthand
>
good point - I will go through the files and trim them down a bit

> On a personal taste note, I didn't like to see the people's heads cut 
> off.  It took a while to get used to the navigation made a little 
> worse by the graphics flashing in on every page, can't some of the 
> image be common to all pages? (I see why it isn't but loading a 
> different 64 k image at each level?)  I'd split it into the header 
> background and the side menu background. 

the largest bg image should be around 40 k - (which is still too high 
for my liking) - this is a result of having to code topreviously signed 
off graphic designers visuals (a long story) - graphic designers who are 
*print* designers and not *web* designers......sigh

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