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Posted by: thepainter Jan 2 2010, 05:47 PM

All Pages on my Site do not load complete with IE.

They do with Safari.

I load page 1 and it is okay but when I get to page 4 it is incomplete.
Go back to page 1 from there and it is incomplete, but then page 4 will load okay.

http://www.davesdomain.ca/keywest/

The loading is erratic and unstable.

I have disabled the anti Virus program I have running. Installed updated Adobe Shockwave.

Can anyone help with any suggestions?

Posted by: pandy Jan 2 2010, 06:01 PM

Man that site is slow! You have a number of HUGE images resized with HTML. Resize them in an image editor to the exact size you are going to use. Optimize them (i.e. use as much JPG compression as you can without losing too much quality).

The pages will still be slow because the images will still be pretty large and you have a lot of them on each page. You may consider using thumbnails or at least smaller images and link to the large versions.

Posted by: thepainter Jan 2 2010, 08:48 PM

thanks

Posted by: Darin McGrew Jan 2 2010, 09:03 PM

I see the same thing with Firefox, Safari, and Chrome.

It wouldn't hurt to fix the markup errors reported by our online validator:
http://htmlhelp.com/cgi-bin/validate.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdavesdomain.ca%2Fkeywest%2F&warnings=yes

You're still taking a 2592×1944px image and resizing it to a mere 600x400px with HTML. That's a huge waste of bandwidth. You should be able to create a 600x400px image that is much smaller than 233kB.

Posted by: thepainter Jan 2 2010, 09:14 PM

Thank you for your reply.

I should have adjusted the size of my pictures on the camera before taking them.
I have tried to resize them down from the 400 and 500KB with Paint Shop Pro but any smaller and they are distorted.

I can't recall how I got such good pics and low KB as I did here:
http://www.davesdomain.ca/dominican2005/

Posted by: pandy Jan 2 2010, 09:21 PM

Could you be using the wrong resizing algorithm? I think IrfanView does a good job with downsizing. Better than PSP. It's small and free, you could give it a try.
http://irfanview.com/

Posted by: thepainter Jan 3 2010, 01:53 PM

QUOTE(pandy @ Jan 2 2010, 09:21 PM)

Posted by: pandy Jan 3 2010, 06:21 PM

Welcome, welcome!

Yup, loads just fine. May be slow for those on slow connection, but not as before. Took aprox. 25 second to load the whole page and I'm on a 100/10 line.

BTW, in PSP, there are several options under Resize. If you choose Pixel for instance, a photo will be messed up.