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RE: Need some load times please - 10/29/2004 13:58:13
can't give you an exact load time but i was still waiting after couple of minutes before the music came and then not everything was loaded. i was getting a download rate of 3.5kbs in opera 7.54. i'm on broadband (512kb/s) but this seemed very slow to me. true i'm in finland but i haven't so much lag before with other sites posted for requests on this forum.
well that's my tuppence, hopefully others can give more empirical data!
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RE: Need some load times please - 10/29/2004 14:16:25
about 29 seconds until totally loaded...
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RE: Need some load times please - 10/29/2004 15:32:18
after about 5-7 seconds. i'm not sure whether i might be the exception here - maybe before you start worrying see how other people - those who might fall more easily into the target audience - fare,
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RE: Need some load times please - 10/29/2004 17:59:28
47 seconds on 52 Kbps dial-up connection. Music started immediately with the picture and played until the finish smoothly. Ed
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RE: Need some load times please - 10/30/2004 12:27:34
52 Kbps is my home connection. The company I work for set up a dial-up service on my laptop for when I am out of the office, I can check my E-mail; so I just use it when at home. At work, I am on a high speed connection and your site loads in about 5 seconds.
As far as acceptable, it's not too bad. When (if) you add a "Loading", or "Loading - Please Wait", and maybe give a percent complete bar as it is loading, that will really make a difference.
You may not get to see these examples due to your high speed connection, but www.easton.com and www.obrothermusic.com are two good examples. The latter takes about the same amount of time to load as yours. The Easton site has an initial loading period, but gives you the option to skip the intro and jump directly into the section your are looking for.
In a nutshell, if you add some type of loading notice, I think the dial-up waiting period will not be a problem, for it will remind the user that the site is coming and not locked up or something.
Website construction using FP is getting more fun by the day for me, and it is still just a hobby. I have learned a half dozen techniques from this forum alone and now you have got me thinking about adding some Flash.
Question: Is your site using Flash incorporated into FP, or is it a stand alone website building program? Ed.
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RE: Need some load times please - 10/30/2004 12:39:00
pretty impressive, jaybee - good job!
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RE: Need some load times please - 10/30/2004 13:53:34
jaybee: you've done so well that I am hesitant to offer any advice but since you admit it's your first foray into Flash, and at the risk of telling you what you already know......
by using objects, Flash can take one instance and use it multiple times without increasing file size. for example, the twirling martini glasses that make me thirsty. you might have created them with Flash drawing tools or imported them from another program. lets say you imported them and each for 3 kb.. File/Import to Stage - once, twice, thrice (is that British? hehe) you now have 3 martini glasses and a total of 9kb. the alternative is File/Import to Library. Then Window/Library opens Library in lower right. drag the object to the stage as many times as you like - even use the transformation tool to resize some of them - Flash still only has one object in the code for 3kb (plus a mathematical resize formula for each that is far far less than i kb.
If you make them yourself, after you make one, click the select toll and draw a square around it- and Insert( I think - I dont have Flash open) and select convert to symbol. give it a name..delete from stage and its in your library and your can drag it onto stage as many times as you like without increasing file size! HTH
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RE: Need some load times please - 10/30/2004 19:25:10
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Do symbols take up less space than jpgs? In other words if I convert my pics into symbols will it be even smaller
not certain but i dont believe so---its just that as symbols, they can be reused endlessly and each usage doesnt increase file size.
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RE: Need some load times please - 10/31/2004 8:06:15
jaybee: is the sound a short file that repeats over and over or a long string that stretches accross the movie? if it was a repeater- that would shorten the size. sounds fine to me
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RE: Need some load times please - 10/31/2004 12:43:27
how come the mouse overs are so dark you can hardly see them?
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RE: Need some load times please - 11/1/2004 11:31:54
Hi Jaybee,
I'm using cable here - took 5 secs to load and the music start playing.
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< Message edited by Spooky -- 11/1/2004 11:56:15 >
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RE: Need some load times please - 11/1/2004 11:34:16
Hi Jatbee,
Also just noticed that when you hover over the links you can't read them
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< Message edited by Spooky -- 11/1/2004 11:56:02 >
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