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Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM

02/07/2005 11:36:46 AM · #1

hey all... i just finally got my webserver up and running with a little 'first edition' website... feel free to give a critique.. ie, negative comments welcomed

my website

mrorange002

Canon EOS-5D

02/07/2005 11:38:50 AM · #2

Seems really bogged down.

GoldBerry

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

02/07/2005 11:43:20 AM · #3

hey Leaf, looks good but was taking forever to load so I closed it before I saw any of your work. Just a note,having your menu at the top makes your site easier for search engines to find (I think).

02/07/2005 11:51:29 AM · #4

hmmm... i wonder why that is... (bogged down)..
the first page came up..then when you tried to click, it took forever?

gloda

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

02/07/2005 11:56:21 AM · #5

Your pictures take incredibly long to load, even more as they are quite small. What did you do to get such huge file sizes?

Canon EOS-20D

02/07/2005 11:57:09 AM · #6

I liked the layout fine, but wonder if folks who don't have their monitors calibrated properly might miss out on the very dark links on black background.

I think the biggest problem, as others have mentioned, is the time that it took to load the photos. I'm on cable internet and had to wait roughly 30 seconds for the two photos in art projects to load. And when they loaded, they were quite small. I'm guessing you are going to lose a lot of viewers this way...people don't want to wait that long.

mrorange002

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM

02/07/2005 11:57:51 AM · #7

what program did you use to create it? it just doesn't seem optimized for web.

02/07/2005 12:05:59 PM · #8

hmm...
i used a mix of simpleviewer, adobe and microsoft front page...
perhaps i have too slow of a server... or something... :S i dunno the images are small... around 100 kb

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

02/07/2005 12:07:25 PM · #9

maybe i should make the images significatly smaller... i see yours eric are only 14 kb

i just checked out konadors site (who I found out about simple viewer from) and his images are 50-80 kb... hmm... perhaps i should make smaller imges.....

Message edited by author 2005-02-07 12:09:46.

wkmen

Olympus SP-570 UZ

02/07/2005 01:13:56 PM · #10

You probably need to "resample" the photos that you've shrunk to fit on the page.

From Front Page, click on each photo, once it is the size you want it displayed at. Then click the "Resample" button on the picture toolbar (it's a picture frame with arrows pointing in on the four corners). Notice the before and after values of the "Estimated Time to Download" information on the bottom right.

Warning - you can't upsize after you've done this, at least without picture degradation.

zeuszen

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II

02/07/2005 01:22:19 PM · #11

10 secs to load the index page, 12 secs per image thereafter (Mac OS X, Safari, cable).

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

02/08/2005 08:11:38 AM · #12

ok.. i did some revamping... if anyone cares to test it out again.. it should be considerably faster
My Website

soup

Canon EOS-30D

02/08/2005 08:17:46 AM · #13

i think part of the speed issues might be from the way the thumbnails, not only fade in, but the way they are highlighted after they fade in.

ie: the white border, and brightening seems to take a long time.
i noticed this on Konadors' site as well.

Moose101

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Canon

02/08/2005 08:18:45 AM · #14

It still seems pretty slow at my end and I have a very fast interent connection here. I also use simpleview for my Photo A Day and each Image is about 150KB and I have no issues like I see here what so ever. For my Thumbs thou I have the images shrunk down to only 1KB if that helps.