Peter Hyde-Smith wrote: >03/14/2006 > >Okay, my eyes are going buggy, > >http://www.baywerks.net/bayonetags/tag50118.20060223/B150118nucleationstudy.html >http://www.baywerks.net/bayonetags/tag50118.20060223/Photolink.50118.0828.1205051.html >http://www.baywerks.net/bayonetags/tag50118.20060223/B1PIB50118.html > >Appreciate feedback, especially for IE6/WINNT or 2K > >And some brave soul to load the first on a 56K dial up, as it's ~400K worth >of text and thumbnail images, and let me know how long it really takes. > >The CSS is here... > >http://www.baywerks.net/bayonetags/tag50118.20060223/B1baseformatcss.css >http://www.baywerks.net/bayonetags/tag50118.20060223/B150118nucleationstudypagecss.css >http://www.baywerks.net/bayonetags/tag50118.20060223/B1PIBcss.css > >Finally, I'd appreciate some design suggestions off-list for what to do with >the ugly, but necessary nav (I almost wrote nag) box on the bottom of the >pages. One thought is to bring the <div> into the main body, yet it still >looks ugly to me. > >Cheers, > >Peter >(spoiled on uberfast cable connection) > > Hi Peter, Don't have WinNT or 2K. - The online speed rapport of WebsiteOptimization.com tells: 81.48 seconds loading time on a 56kbps modem ... See over here <http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/wso.php?url=http://www.baywerks.net/bayonetags/tag50118.20060223/B150118nucleationstudy.html>. But there is light in the tunnel: 1. The images can be lossless compressed, see testpage over here <http://home.tiscali.nl/developerscorner/css-discuss/test-compressing-jpg.htm>. 2. Then combining the images, and putting them as background-images on the page (with different background-positions) can save some http-requests and gets rid of empty spaces in the tcp/ip-packets coming down: also contributions to speed 'm up. 3. In the (normally spoken) visited page just before this one, you can preload (a part of) the images by placing them just before the end of the </body>, as hidden images (a <div> with {margin-left: -9999px}). While the visitor is reading (we hope), the images are silently downloaded. Then the images of the next page, anyway the top images, are already in the cache and don't ask downloading time after opening the page.
btw: should put the Nav-bar just under the header (the common place people are looking for the menu, not after scrolling). Greetongs, francky ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
