[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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Paul Bennett
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Teltest Electronic Design
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