It was my fault for all the CSS files... I had one of the those "import all my CSS" files moments... I can consolidate them into a few files.
I will do the maintenance work. John Hwang On 9/7/06, Thomas Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 14:08:41 +0100 (BST), Paul Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > ----- Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The last conclusion was that at a marketing level it was a disaster > >> to > >> re-brand every year GUADEC, thus the effort for having a stable logo. > >> > >> If you look at sport events and music festivals you will find many > >> ways > >> for creating unique marketing for people to associate with every > >> occasion... keeping the same logo and core brand identity. > > > > I agree with Quim. Although we should always feel free to think different > > and not simply ape them, if you look at the big conferences like OSCON and > > Linuxworld, apart from the dates and speakers the sites are virtually > > identical each year (from memory anyway, I didn't check wayback machine). > > I would prefer we spent time fixing things that need fixing (e.g. site > > navigation) or developing things relevant to Birmingham (travel info, > > directions, etc), rather than things that don't, like the logo. > > Speaking of which, I'm not sure which list to bring this up on, but something > really does need to be done about the speed of guadec.org. I just ran a quick > test > <http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/wso.php?url=http://guadec.org/> > and found that on the front page, there are 133 objects (i.e. the browser > has to make 133 http requests). There are 31 css files, and 101 images alone! > The total size is 411965 bytes - that's nearly half a megabyte we are forcing > visitors to download! Even on a broadband connection, this is going to take > nearly 10 seconds to complete loading. Clearly this is totally unacceptable, > and needs urgent attention. I have no idea how or why this is happening, so > could anyone who helped set up the website shed some light on this? > > -Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > guadec-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list > -- John Hwang _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
