Site Check Please

[Gail Miller]

Hello...

Could some of you who understand load time please check my Grace Church site
and help me figure out what is taking SO long for some of the pages to load?
I believe I have optimized all the graphics, including the ones used in the
Nav bars. In addition, sometimes the top Nav bar on the Index page does not
come up until I have clicked on another page (on the bottom navigation bar).
After that, when I return to the "home" page the top nav bar is there
intact. Usually.

The site is up on a temporary server just now while I try to iron out the
bugs.

www.lwvalex.org/grace

Thanks in advance...

Gail Miller
Communications Consultant
Writing . Editing . Web Design
(e-mail address removed)
703.549.4117 Voice
703.868.4345 Cell

 

[Ronx]

Using an ADSL connection I regard three seconds as a long time for a page to
load. Your pages loaded almost instantly. Your load time problem, and
lack of navigation buttons, is probably due to use of Hover buttons - these
are JAVA applets which often take forever to initialise. My PC (like many
others using ie6 and/or WindowsXP) does not have a Java Virtual Machine
(JVM), so there is no waiting for the buttons to load - they will never
load.

Suggest you change your Hover buttons to ordinary text or images, use
JavaScript rollovers to provide the "hover" effect.

HTH
Ron

 

[Steve Easton]

Nice looking site.
However, checking the home page with CSELite html validator
shows 15 html errors, which will increase the "apparent" load time
as the browser has to interpret or parse the errors.

CSELite is free and you can download it here.
http://www.htmlvalidator.com/lite/

A hint for using it. Correct errors from the top of
the page one at a time, save and then revalidate, as
correcting one error often resolves another.

hth


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Hello...

Could some of you who understand load time please check my Grace Church site
and help me figure out what is taking SO long for some of the pages to load?
I believe I have optimized all the graphics, including the ones used in the
Nav bars. In addition, sometimes the top Nav bar on the Index page does not
come up until I have clicked on another page (on the bottom navigation bar).
After that, when I return to the "home" page the top nav bar is there
intact. Usually.

The site is up on a temporary server just now while I try to iron out the
bugs.

www.lwvalex.org/grace

Thanks in advance...

Gail Miller
Communications Consultant
Writing . Editing . Web Design
(e-mail address removed)
703.549.4117 Voice
703.868.4345 Cell

 

[Gail Miller]

Using an ADSL connection I regard three seconds as a long time for a page to
load. Your pages loaded almost instantly. Your load time problem, and
lack of navigation buttons, is probably due to use of Hover buttons - these
are JAVA applets which often take forever to initialise. My PC (like many
others using ie6 and/or WindowsXP) does not have a Java Virtual Machine
(JVM), so there is no waiting for the buttons to load - they will never
load.

Suggest you change your Hover buttons to ordinary text or images, use
JavaScript rollovers to provide the "hover" effect.

HTH
Ron
--

Thanks so much Ron -- and thanks, Pam, for your input as well.

Is there a workaround in FP 2002 that will compensate for the fact that XP
and IE6 do not have JVM? Why on earth would MS create a program (e.g., XP
and IE6) that wouldn't use the conveniences of another MS program (FP
Hover Buttons)? I guess the second question here is a rhetorical one.

Any additional tips will be most appreciated.

Thanks...Gail Miller

 

[Very Joyful \(Victoria\)]

The JVM thing has to do with a lawsuit with Sun. I suggest you use CSS
instead of the hovers as you can get pretty much the same effect. Your
design is lovely. I suggest you do some detail checking on the size of your
cells as the main box of text jumps around from page to page. The pages load
fast using my cable modem.

 

[Steve Easton]

obtw, I'm far from an expert. I just know enough
to be dangerous .;-)
I play more on the system side of things. Have a shortcut
to regedit on my desktop.
Example, I have dug out all of the class files from JVM
that are required to run hover buttons, and have them decompiled,
and am trying to convert them to javascript. ( if it's possible )
( and if it is, Jim Cheshire could probably do it in 10 minutes )

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Steve -

Okay, Steve, thanks. I'll fix that and not worry about the others. The
"false
positives" are a bit disconcerting for an HTML checker though, aren't they?
How's one to know, without being an expert like yourself and others on this
board?

Craig

 

[Craig Schiller]

Well, you're certainly an expert in comparison to me! LOL.