Website up and running

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Well you all, let me know what you think? We are still fine tuning it and if anyone has any suggestions, let me know. Sign our guest book also.

[jeffreyr]

I tried to sign the guest book and got an undeliverable notice back..

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Originally Posted by jeffreyr

I tried to sign the guest book and got an undeliverable notice back..

Try it again, that is fixed.

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Originally Posted by Death_ADDER

Great website. That was gonna be my comment. I am on a very good connection and the first picture took quite a bit to load. That lil picture in the availability page took over 60 seconds to load. If this is a big picture and you set the dimensions down afterward then it explains why its loading the full picture and showing it smaller. Just shrink them using photoshop to the size you want to make them load faster.

Steve

That my friend is what I need to know. Thank you so much. Going to work on it tonight. I also want the smaller pictures to have a function to make them bigger if someone wants to see them closer. I don't know if that is a option or not because I want speed for sure.

[Boa Amarali]

Originally Posted by judgment

I think it all looks really nice. You might consider making the photos that load automatically a smaller size so they will load more quickly, and then have them link to a larger photo. It seemed to take a little long to load a couple of the pages for me - I don't mind of course, I just wonder how long the average visitor will wait for pics to load.

Of course, I am on a wireless network at a hotel at the moment so I could just be on a slow connection.

Nice collection!

I was contemplating a similar suggestion

The File size on most if not all of the Image Files are rather large.
Full size Pictures for web pages still need to be a smaller file size
instead of being 4-5 or 6 MBs they should be
compressed to 200-900 Kilobytes.

Sometimes a little over 1 mb will work but compressing the files as much as possible with out
loosing too much Image quality is essential for a quick loading website

Paint.net Freeware has a really great compression tool
http://www.paint.net/

[jeffreyr]

Originally Posted by follow

Try it again, that is fixed.

Done...
Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Boa Amarali

I was contemplating a similar suggestion

The File size on most if not all of the Image Files are rather large.
Full size Pictures for web pages still need to be a smaller file size
instead of being 4-5 or 6 MBs they should be
compressed to 200-900 Kilobytes.

Sometimes a little over 1 mb will work but compressing the files as much as possible with out
loosing too much Image quality is essential for a quick loading website

Paint.net Freeware has a really great compression tool
www.paint.net

I got it fixed now Lar. The site is moving fast now. SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!

[Death_ADDER]

Originally Posted by follow

That my friend is what I need to know. Thank you so much. Going to work on it tonight. I also want the smaller pictures to have a function to make them bigger if someone wants to see them closer. I don't know if that is a option or not because I want speed for sure.

What you need to do is have a smaller picture show up, use that picture as a link to the bigger/fullsized picture. When someone clicks the small thumbnail picture, it brings them to the full sized pic. If you got any questions you can shoot me a PM. Seems you got the size thing figured out so the link is real easy to do.

Steve

[Boa Amarali]

Originally Posted by follow

I got it fixed now Lar. The site is moving fast now. SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!

Its running sweet now !!!

Compressing all those pictures then "re uploading" them
is some work though isn't Joe ( I mean Annette , ha ha ) ??

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Originally Posted by Boa Amarali

Its running sweet now !!!

Compressing all those pictures then "re uploading" them
is some work though isn't Joe ( I mean Annette , ha ha ) ??

Actually it wasn't that hard. I just changed the pixel count. The photos will be changing anyway as we just got a new camera and will start taking new pictures soon. I know I will be taking more pictures of the sharp sunglow just because I know it will color up even more. A buddy of mine wanted to buy the sunglow already from me and I told him no. lol He wanted to give me 2000.00 for him. NO WAY JOSE.