Need to revamp my website.... - DPChallenge Forums

07/21/2005 11:59:12 AM · #1

Hi guys. I have put it off long enough.
I haven't updated my website in a couple of months because I recognize the need for a total revamp.
I plan to add full-size links to each image, as well as some better organization. (And of course add more recent work).
Any other suggestions you could provide before I dive into what will doubtless be a week-long task?
It would be best if I had all of the plans upfront, so I can organize the workflow (and maybe save my self hours of rework).

My current page is linked in my signature.

07/21/2005 12:03:07 PM · #2

Originally posted by idnic:

My current page is linked in my signature.

And for the many of us who don't have signatures turned on and are too lazy to do so or to look up your profile that link would be....?

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07/21/2005 12:03:59 PM · #3

//www.penrodstudios.com/

07/21/2005 12:04:27 PM · #4

Sorry - that's //penrodstudios.com PenrodStudios

07/21/2005 12:23:01 PM · #5

First thing I would do is to not use Yahoo SiteBuilder. It's not writing valid code and somewhere along the line your pages are quite bloated.

07/21/2005 12:25:04 PM · #6

Bloated? Does that mean slow-loading? I'm not a web genius by any means, used SiteBuilder because its soooooooo easy. I can use FrontPage... is that better? What would you suggest?

07/21/2005 12:40:54 PM · #7

Originally posted by idnic:

Bloated? Does that mean slow-loading? I'm not a web genius by any means, used SiteBuilder because its soooooooo easy. I can use FrontPage... is that better? What would you suggest?

Actually, I would suggest Notepad but if you don't know HTML then it's not the right tool for you. I haven't seen SiteBuilder in years so I'm not sure how it's interface is but FrontPage will allow you to view the HTML so you can clean it up. By itself it doesn't write good code either though.

Yes, very slow loading. The first page is 104k and will take over 20 seconds to load on 56k. Even with broadband there was a significant lag to load the page initially. The biggest hit was with your graphics. 97k of them. For the dimentions of the images they should have much smaller file sizes. Half the file size without losing quality.

07/21/2005 12:51:42 PM · #8

Ah! Good info. Thanks TS. Looks like it might be more of a re-do than I expected. But I DO want to minimize load time.

07/21/2005 12:56:57 PM · #9

Originally posted by idnic:

Ah! Good info. Thanks TS. Looks like it might be more of a re-do than I expected. But I DO want to minimize load time.

I got your page size wrong. I didn't take into consideration your background image which is nearly 550k by itself. Consider a small repeating background image instead. Shouldn't be hard to modify your original image into a 1 or 2k image that will tile nicely.