TaylorAtCTS — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 03:38:03 +0000

Actually I don;t belive they would slow it down much at all. iframes should take about the same time.

If tables arent your thing try CSS

rtroxel — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:55:31 +0000

Quote: If possible I would get rid of the iframes.

What would be a good substitute? Tables? I've heard that tables within tables slows the download. (Obviously, I'm a novice at this and any help would be appreciated )

TaylorAtCTS — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 02:14:13 +0000

I just want to let you know, you have iframes on your website..i'm sure you know this. There is a big problem with iframes, search engines hate them. The pages that contain the information in the iframe can sometimes be indexed seperatly and vistors end up on a page with some content and no links. There are more problems like links within iframes arent indexed sometimes, some browsers dont support them. They are generally something to steer away from.

If possible I would get rid of the iframes.

Your website looks fine in firfox to me, my res is 1900x1200

rtroxel — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 01:40:44 +0000

Again, many thanks. I'll get to work.

Busy — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 01:27:31 +0000

Your site isn't to bad on firefox (and dialup) - seen way worse

Your layout is one big table with little nested tables inside it, break these down and it will load faster. break your code into 3 sections

header
content
footer

You've also got a few iframes that don't help in load time as well.
You've also got some bad habits going on in your code, don't assign a height to a table or td cell, you have ' ALT' but no value, should be alt="" (if has no value), also when you have things like COLSPAN="23" and COLSPAN="16" it's a sure sign your tables are to complex (or it's a typo) which makes the browser work.
You've also got things like :

while these items are not displayed on the page they should be placed before the (kept inside the set)
there is also the search.freefind form between tags which looks to have no purpose

Break your tables up into the sections, validate your code (wouldn't do it until after) and you should have your site loading faster and smoother.