I will go ahead and start cleaning up the mess I created. I will also start creating/organizing the space for GUADEC 2007.
John Hwang On 9/7/06, Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El dj 07 de 09 del 2006 a les 12:18 +0100, en/na Thomas Wood va > escriure: > > > 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. > > Until now guadec.org has been discussed here. > > > could anyone who helped set up the website shed some light on this? > > guadec.org needs optimization in many senses, definitely. A better > management of CSS files would diminish dramatically these statistics. > For instance, the heaviest object detected by the report is a CSS image > that in fact doesn't show up in the homepage: > http://guadec.org/themes/guadec/images/location_bg.png . Apparently this > image is being pre-loaded in all the guadec.org pages, even if it's not > used in any (?). There are lots of other minor objects that appear on > the report but are not visible in the page, nor appear in the HTML code. > > However, note that the 3 header images have 86966 in total + 115785 from > sponsors/partner logos + 4036 (only) of pure HTML = 206787, which is > already a non-light page. > > The Vilanova team build that website from almost nothing, with lots of > improvisation and rush but also thinking of building something that > could be evolved and updated continuously. tavon, Behnam and myself were > the ones tweaking regularly the CMS, with poor coordination since tavon > started almost everything but then had to leave the team for personal > reasons. > > Now the Birmingham team can evolve and optimize the site. As said, most > of the kb optimization relies in the CSS files since the HTML files > themselves are rather small. Of course a better use of images will help, > although the big header and banner had a lot to do (I think) with the > good comments we received about the website. > > About the structure, all the GUADEC2006 static pages are "classified" > under the /GUADEC2006 directory, it should be easy to update the site > just by changing the home and assigning the Birmingham2007 pages in an > own directory as well. > > -- > Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
