Website Woes...Part 2...

[Dr. V] · September 30th, 2007

Hey gang, it's good ol' Jon again.

Same website giving me a problem. The loading is definitely better, but it seems "intermittent". Basically when you go through Internet Explorer (i.e. a Google search) EVERY time the slices are pretty bad. Through Firefox, the slices are much smoother and usually don't even happen (after browsing through every page).

Pretty much I need to know if there is a way to optimize everything about the site no matter what browser is being used to access it.

Thanks in advance guys!

P.S. I did use PHOTOSHOP with SLICING to make the website.

Welcome To Edge Music

Stormcrow · October 3rd, 2007

What version of IE are you loading it with? I just fired up IE7 and it loads just fine, and the slices blend perfectly and don't stick out. I ran the URL through google and went to it from there and theres a slight loading lag but nothing to really be concerned with. Did you use CSS for the pages? Cause IE really isn't the nicest player with CSS, with a new slew of problems every release. The only problem I see is that the page itself only fills 3/4 of the browser window, the rest being a single shade of blue. Dropping down to 800x600 really kills the page, not sure if you optimized the site for widescreen or not. 960x600 looks alot better but still a sliver of the blue, not bad though.

**MantaBase** · October 3rd, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by ST!X

Hey gang, it's good ol' Jon again.

Same website giving me a problem. The loading is definitely better, but it seems "intermittent". Basically when you go through Internet Explorer (i.e. a Google search) EVERY time the slices are pretty bad. Through Firefox, the slices are much smoother and usually don't even happen (after browsing through every page).

Pretty much I need to know if there is a way to optimize everything about the site no matter what browser is being used to access it.

Thanks in advance guys!

P.S. I did use PHOTOSHOP with SLICING to make the website.

Well, you could also opitmize each image in the slice a little better using "Save for Web" in photoshop. Use "High" is its a JPG - no one will notice anything higher.

Also, you are missing the html header

something like
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

This means the browser has to guess.

Otherwise, I think its a matter of your server. Oh....you might try prefetch (look it up). It doesn't change the load speed, but it can make it feel faster

Welcome To Edge Music

fstroupe · October 4th, 2007

Worked fine for me....took maybe 1 second for each page to load in Firefox...maybe 1.5 in IE. After was in the cache, loaded instantly in both browsers.

I'm sure it would load pretty slow on dialup, though.

[Dr. V] · March 23rd, 2008

I'm resurrecting this post to talk about website ADVERTISING. Basically, what's recommended and what's a reasonable price? The site needs traffic. No business is being generated from the website, and that's bad.

HELP!!!

Smashing · March 23rd, 2008

Website looks fine in Opera but cheap at high resolution.

[Dr. V] · March 23rd, 2008

Yea problem is it's a set design by the clients and the dimensions are solid.

Smashing · March 23rd, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by [Dr. V]

Yea problem is it's a set design by the clients and the dimensions are solid.

Try centering it in the page.

[Dr. V] · March 23rd, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Smashing

Try centering it in the page.

That's how it was before and how I believe it should be, but the want it left justified. I tried explaining to them - nope.

September 30th, 2007	#1
[Dr. V] Yes - the Doctor is back. Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,643	Website Woes...Part 2... Hey gang, it's good ol' Jon again. Same website giving me a problem. The loading is definitely better, but it seems "intermittent". Basically when you go through Internet Explorer (i.e. a Google search) EVERY time the slices are pretty bad. Through Firefox, the slices are much smoother and usually don't even happen (after browsing through every page). Pretty much I need to know if there is a way to optimize everything about the site no matter what browser is being used to access it. Thanks in advance guys! P.S. I did use PHOTOSHOP with SLICING to make the website. Welcome To Edge Music

October 3rd, 2007	#2
Stormcrow HL's Technomancer Join Date: May 2007 Location: Frozen North Posts: 1,168 Blog Entries: 1	Re: Website Woes...Part 2... What version of IE are you loading it with? I just fired up IE7 and it loads just fine, and the slices blend perfectly and don't stick out. I ran the URL through google and went to it from there and theres a slight loading lag but nothing to really be concerned with. Did you use CSS for the pages? Cause IE really isn't the nicest player with CSS, with a new slew of problems every release. The only problem I see is that the page itself only fills 3/4 of the browser window, the rest being a single shade of blue. Dropping down to 800x600 really kills the page, not sure if you optimized the site for widescreen or not. 960x600 looks alot better but still a sliver of the blue, not bad though.

October 4th, 2007	#4
fstroupe A Lonely Geek Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: NE Mississippi Posts: 291 Blog Entries: 3	Re: Website Woes...Part 2... Worked fine for me....took maybe 1 second for each page to load in Firefox...maybe 1.5 in IE. After was in the cache, loaded instantly in both browsers. I'm sure it would load pretty slow on dialup, though.

March 23rd, 2008	#5
[Dr. V] Yes - the Doctor is back. Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,643	Re: Website Woes...Part 2... I'm resurrecting this post to talk about website ADVERTISING. Basically, what's recommended and what's a reasonable price? The site needs traffic. No business is being generated from the website, and that's bad. HELP!!!

March 23rd, 2008	#6
Smashing Banned Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 160	Re: Website Woes...Part 2... Website looks fine in Opera but cheap at high resolution.

March 23rd, 2008	#7
[Dr. V] Yes - the Doctor is back. Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,643	Re: Website Woes...Part 2... Yea problem is it's a set design by the clients and the dimensions are solid.

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