Curtis Thompson
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hello…
you can use discreet cleaner (although i guess it’s autodesk now) – you want to do flash video, and it can export from a variety of formats that you can create in fcp to flash…
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hello…
what part of “this” do you mean? i assume the technology itself, but more specifics are always helpful…
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hello…
i’ve never used iweb, so i cannot guide you in that application – if they don’t offer the ability to put html text in a box in place of an image, then you might have to take some time to pick up another app or get much more in depth with iweb to figure it out… :-/
the short term fix if you have to have your site live is to stop using the larger png format graphics. i assume you made those, yes? if so, save them as optimized gifs or jpgs instead of png and replace them in your page – i have seen over 400kb of png images that quite honestly could be 10-20kb of gifs – that alone would speed up your site loading times dramatically…
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[Jeff Mack] “Do you think if I change the concept of inserting text boxes and linking them to creating my own buttons as jpgs and hyperlinking them would be any better or is that just trading problems?”
if the jpgs are smaller than the current png images it will help. but i really can’t stress it enough – 95% of your site is graphics, and most of them just don’t need to be that – they can be plain text in html – for example:
https://www.mckinneyontheweb.com/Home_files/shapeimage_8.png
make that a box with text in html – but if you have to keep it as an img, make it a gif – the png is 52kb, and a gif of that could be 10% of that file size probably…
simply put – get rid of the large images. png files are nice for some things, but not everything…
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[Jeff Mack] “I am not hosting this on a .mac but on a network solutions”
never mentioned .mac? all i tossed out was that you might have a slower isp – it happens, and it’s debugging when i have zero information. if you are on network solutions then that’s probably not the culprit.
[Jeff Mack] ” How do you add links without doing it the way I did?”
you can use tables, etc. – lots of ways. it’s beyond the scope of this post to document all of them, but if you are using a wysiwyg like iweb then you might want to also try things like dreamweaver, etc. – for an explanation on tables, you can look at:
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp
[Jeff Mack] “How should I reduce the images?”
you have to understand how to use the image tools that you used to create the images. png files are ultimately much larger, so you should try to save those in gif or jpg format if possible. also, try reducing the number of colors in gifs and compression in jpgs. also consider using less images – for example, in your center businesses coming soon section, you have each item as an (on average) 4kb png image – that adds up to around 150kb of images absolutely placed over a 180kb background – that alone is way over what should be your maximum kb total for an average page. you can easily make those individual png images into a table with html and plain text that would probably be 1kb – 2kb of text…much faster.
[Jeff Mack] “I searched web optimizers and tried one.”
you can’t optimize this sort of thing. you need to do the work yourself to reduce the image count and image size – that’s the culprit, and that’s the best place to start…
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hello…
did you look at my response to your last post on your site? you had over 1mb of images and dozens of absolutely placed divs that i suspect are a big part of the problem…
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hello…
you could use ccc…
https://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
that should do the trick…
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hello…
if you mean automate it one time for you to build, i can’t really say (there are tons of gallery scripts out there, though)…if you mean dynamically going forward (i.e. the page builds itself dynamically with each request from a directory of images), then yup – any scripting language can do it, but it’s beyond the scope of this forum to document how to do that…
something like this might help (not a member of experts exchange, so you’d have to sign up to see it and not sure if it’s even solved for the person):
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/Q_23336986.html
alternately, poke around the net and you should find lots of examples in a variety of scripting languages…
hope that helps!
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hello…
the difference between pc and mac is hard to address here – ie on windows has a lot of differences from firefox or safari (on either platform) – i don’t know specifically what was off for you between the two, but there really isn’t a secret to making it work other than trying stuff out and working with it on both platforms as you go… :-/
as for speed – i downloaded the package of your home page and it was 1mb – that’s a lot of images and text and everything to make a user download. if your isp is slower, it’s even worse. you would typically want to be at no more than 20% of that total (so around 200kb) – one of your paper backgrounds alone was nearly that…
best bet is to try to optimize and reduce your graphical count – again no magic solution, but if you do that it should greatly help load time. you also have a ton of absolutely positioned elements on the page – there’s no hard data that says that makes things slower, but it does make the dom work harder to put and keep everything in a pixel-specific location…
hope that helps a bit!
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hello…
simply put – impossible to provide you keywords that will make your business appear higher in search engines w/o knowing your business…
however, even with that, i’d have to say there is no magic keyword or set of them that will make you appear higher – the best bet for you is to search google for search engine optimization (don’t pay for any suggestions, though – that market is a racket), and make sure your site conforms as best as possible to the basic search engine rules…keywords are only a small part of the bigger plan…
hope that helps!
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