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To: meadsjn
is there any way to make it load faster?
7 posted on 12/21/2003 12:41:23 AM PST by Stewart_B ("You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.")
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To: Stewart_B
Yes. Don't use flash or heavy graphics on your main page. Avoid HTML generators and code your own HTML, if you can. Everyone doesn't want to bother with the HTML, but you can always save your graphics and multi-media for sub-pages.

If your site is a catalog or shopping cart site, you definitely don't want visitors leaving before they can see your main page. Once they have your main page and index loaded, perhaps more than 0% will follow your links to the pages with the stuff for sale or the stuff requiring the graphics.

8 posted on 12/21/2003 12:50:42 AM PST by meadsjn
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To: Stewart_B
Only use the graphics you need for your content, and optimize those to as small a file size as possible without degrading the quality. As a general rule, use JPEGs for photos and GIFs for grahics with solid colors.

Try to keep the total size of the html file and all graphics and other elements to under 100KB.
10 posted on 12/21/2003 12:52:50 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Chilling Effect-1, Global Warming-0)
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