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airattack111
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rate please, quad site - 6/8/2005 0:48:59
www.kfx400hq.com
June6th was the anniversarry for my website, so we made a new template, and got it up.
I would like to know what you guys think of it. Everyone on the site seems to love it.
What I'm still mainly focused on is loading time, my old templates took forever to load, "non broadbander's said so.. lol".
But for this one we used a kool little websnap thing in photoshop, and we slightly decreased the quality of the gifs and saved 8 seconds of loading time.
So please tell me how long it takes to load.
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Tailslide
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RE: rate please, quad site - 6/8/2005 3:29:33
Hi Airattack (did you used to play that excellent on-line dog-fighting game - whatever happened to that?)
It's a very neat and tidy site - I particularly like your image gallery but then I have a thing about image galleries at the moment!
It is quite slow - 32 seconds on a 56kbps modem - you can check out the report at: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
Also (groans from the rest of the board) you should have a Doc Type declaration as the first thing on every page - here's one that should work for your site:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
Here's a link to explain why it's a good thing: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/doctype/
A lot of people don't use these <nag>but they really should</nag>on personal sites. Even if you decide not to use it, it's worthwhile knowing what they are and what they do.
Finally - in the best of possible worlds you should be able to navigate through a site with no images and your nav is image based - you might want to look at putting a text-based version of your nav down the bottom of the page somewhere just in case (this is just me being "belt and braces")
Nice looking site though!
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airattack111
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RE: rate please, quad site - 6/8/2005 18:02:22
Thanks man,
I don't know much about coding, jsut the basics, where should I insert that tag? after or be4 the body or title tag? thanks.
" Hi Airattack (did you used to play that excellent on-line dog-fighting game - whatever happened to that?) "
I don't think I ever palyed and online dog fighting game.. lol
I've palyed warcraft 3 "pc", starcraft "pc", unreal tournament "dc", alien front online "dc", halo2 "xbox, and atv vs mx "xbox"....
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Tailslide
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RE: rate please, quad site - 6/9/2005 6:01:25
Hi again
The thing with the on-line game was because it was called air-attack - it was about 7 years ago back before the on-line gaming thing really got going - ignore me I'm rambling
You need to paste that doc type in before everyting else in your code so the top bit of your page should look something like this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
etc etc.
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RE: rate please, quad site - 6/9/2005 6:30:05
Liked the site very much. It was inviting and easy to navigate. I am on broadband so loading time was not a problem.
Tailslide is right about Doctypes. (I have been educated on the OF forum this week on the use of them).
Anyway - good site.
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airattack111
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RE: rate please, quad site - 6/9/2005 17:50:23
Alright I'll have to fix that, haha
I put them after the head tag I think. Me=idiot
Thanks for the comments!
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RE: rate please, quad site - 6/9/2005 18:11:34
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I put them after the head tag I think.
Tailslide showed in her example above, exactly where to place the doctype. It goes before the html tag.
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RE: rate please, quad site - 6/9/2005 19:21:27
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looked fine in IE, but it tottaly messed up the whole site in firefox
Direct your anger and frustration at IE - it is the least compliant of all browsers.
Quoting Tailslide (again!)
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The mantra is code for Firefox, check in Opera and fix it for IE.
If you don't have a doctype it is highly unpredictable how other browsers and other platforms (like mac) will render it.
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