You are your own worst critic. Content is king...and you are the queen of
content! I think your site is great.
Thanks for taking the time to look at the site...
DavidF
It loads everything for me. All the pictures are intact.
Why do folks make such great web sites and mine looks like a 5 year old
did it?
--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com
As I said, I every image loads for me. Perhaps David Bartosik, Mary,
Don
or
Rob could try your site to see if they get a different experience. Have
some
of your customers or friends help test the site...
Also, perhaps you could increase the size of your Temp internet folder
size,
delete the files, and then reboot the computer(s) at the store to see
if
that makes any difference. It seems that your problems are more a
function
of your computers than the site. Overflowing text boxes should not
affect
your images, but overlapping images & text boxes will. It will combine
the
text box with the image to create a new image. Perhaps run the design
checker to see if you have any instances of that happening??
As per using the import images option, I would probably concentrate on
the
larger, JPG images for that such as the picture of your store on your
home
page. Given the large number of images you have on your site, I doubt
if
it
would be worth it to do it for every image. Perhaps temporarily add a
test
page to your site, and both link and embed the same image(s) side by
side to
see the difference in loading time and quality before you undertake
linking/importing more.
What application are you using for resampling and optimizing your
images, by
the way?
DavidF
The inconsistancy is at the bike shop. When I load the site there.
There
is
always some page that will be missing a graphic or two. I can delete
the
files and try again then it will be other graphics that are missing. I
have
tried on two of the computers there and they do the same thing. When
his
computer is clean it works fine but as soon as he builds up temp files
the
page starts missing graphics(never the same graphics). I noticed that
I
have
alot of missing alternative text and overlowing text boxes. I am
fixing
that.
But should that cause problems??????I will also look into linking the
images
I guess.
--
Thanks
:
gfish,
It all looks good to me. In fact, I think you have built a pretty
elaborate
site and should feel pretty good about it. All the images on the
pages
that
I looked at loaded, even using a dial-up connection. And most seemed
to
load
in a reasonable time for Pub 2003.
I don't understand your comment or question about "...tried to link
some
images, but..."
Inconsistency?...if you delete all your temp internet pages before
viewing a
page, the pages will load more slowly the first time. The second
time
you
load a page, you already have the images on your computer, so it
will
load
more quickly. For a true comparison of loading time of different
pages,
always delete your temp pages before viewing...
I guess I don't see any major problem, at least not with the pages I
looked
at. If there is a particular page or image, then post back with that
URL
of
that page, and I'll take another look. Publisher 2003 images do load
a
bit
slower, but you seem to have found a pretty good balance between
image
quality and size, and loading time, in general.
You would find images loading more quickly if you import...or link
to
them,
and bypass the Publisher coding engine. (Perhaps that was what your
comment
was about?) You might experiment with that to see if you like the
results
better. Here is an article:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=287
Does that answer your questions?
DavidF
Can you view my site and make a recommendation from what you see?
I
have
tried all those other things. I have even tried to link some of
the
images,
but it won't let me link more then one page to one image. I don't
understand
the inconsistancy of it working and then not working. If the
images
are to
large I wouldn't think it would work at all? Is there a threshhold
I
should
shoot for? Image wise or page wise.
--
Thanks
:
It sounds like your images are too large. Did you use the
"compress
images"
function as suggested? Or perhaps resample, and reduce the size
of
the
images in a third party image editing app before you insert them
into
your
Pub doc. And go to Tools > Options > Web tab and deselect "Rely
on
VML..."
and "Allow PNG...". Delete your old html files on your site and
republish.
DavidF
The site always works perfect with broadband except for some
weird
indenting
issues on one of the pages. I got the site working with
dial-up
but it
is
not
consistantly working. There are always some images that don't
load
but
never
the same images. It changes after I do a disk clean up or when
I
delete
the
temporary internet files. Once I pull the site up the first
time
it
loads
slowly then it loads really fast when I refresh the screen.
The
graphics
that
are going to load, load fast. The other don't work at all.
--
Thanks
:
Publisher 2003 does result in slower loading images, but
generally
if
you
can see the images via broadband, you can also see
them....eventually...with
dial up. Perhaps you will have better luck if you use the
compress
images
function before you publish your site. Here is a MS article
that
might
help:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011266301033.aspx
DavidF
message
I am using Publisher 2003. My site works fine with
broadband.
When
viewed
from a dial-up connection my images appear as a red x's. I
am
using
alot
of
images mainly small gifs. There is one or two that work
from
time
to
time
and
they are not unique. I have tried even single page
publishes
with
1
image
and
dial-up will not read it.
