1fastbmw — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 05:02:46 +0000

good for you .......i dont

Roo — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:41:34 +0000

Quote: i have about anythign a buddy of mine adn i are building a download site and he has almost a terabyte od software if you need anythign hit me up on msn

That sounds like piracy to me. I PAY for my software, and have LEGAL versions.

1fastbmw — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 01:17:02 +0000

but how can i reduce and stilll look so cool...lol ....i understand the thing about the images i have a few image resizing prgs ps2,irfinview,macromedia8, pix resizer i have about anythign a buddy of mine adn i are building a download site and he has almost a terabyte od software if you need anythign hit me up on msn
trevorhunter2003@gmail.com

JeevesBond — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:54:29 +0000

Roo wrote: Holy cow!!! That image that is a table cell background - laser.gif is 267KB!

Ouch! You need to reduce that image size 1fastbmw.

Roo — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:22:49 +0000

Holy cow!!! That image that is a table cell background - laser.gif is 267KB!

JeevesBond — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:56:18 +0000

Resizing using HTML is a bad idea, to do this you should use an image editor, as Roo suggested.

I suspect the biggest problem you have is because of that complicated image you have in the background. Try removing that and scrolling the site, that should speed things up.

*** EDIT ***
Am not seeing that problem myself: Firefox 2 beta -- Ubuntu Linux (no Opera fans, I haven't ditched it, I just dislike looking at sites of dubious virtue on my main browser. )

Although my CPU is jumping to about 95% whenever I scroll. That large animated banner isn't helping either.

Roo — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:45:30 +0000

No...width and height and simply the image dimentions.

It's all in how you save the file from the image editor that affects the file size (weight of the image).

What image editor are you using? Photoshop? Paint Shop Pro? Other?

I took lady.jpg into Photoshop and saved for web at 50% at the exact same height and width and the file is 31KB.

1fastbmw — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:28:11 +0000

should i just makethe images smaller?
i use width="???" to control the size does this control the actual fiel size?

Roo — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:47:32 +0000

Doesn't drag for me....I'm on a cable.

You might want to look at the weight of all of these images, and also the weight of the code....that's one thing about writing good code and using CSS....it makes the site lighter and faster loading.

The animated thingy is 67 KB
lady.jpg is a whopping 102KB

You are not optimizing your image very well...such heavy images and code will weigh a site down and can cause issues like what you describe on slow connections and slower machines....It sucks up CPU power to display bloated pages.