advice needed: lg background image, loading time..., site review Options

[npessoa]

Hi, all:

This is a work in progress. I like how it's turning out, but my concern is that it is slow loading. I have a relatively fast connection but I've checked the front page with Netmechanic and other analyzer tools, and the size is ridiculous. I am going to work on optimizing the images and hopefully reducing the number of items tonight, but I wondered if I could have some feedback from other people.

Not all the pages are up yet... About, News, and Gallery have content...


http://layer5.medialayer.net/~***/

(in space of the *** type 'shaydoro' - this is to avoid bots/spammers.

thank you!

[pandy]

I think our word filter ate the last part of the URL. Can you retype the last bit with s p a c e s between the letters or something, please?

[Peter1968]

Pandy...what's written below the URL? What did the OP write there? Back to school with you, Norma Jean!

[Peter1968]

To the OP:

Bunch of errors:

CODE

Result: 0 errors / 20 warnings

line 151 column 31 - Warning: <a> unexpected or duplicate quote mark
line 151 column 31 - Warning: <a> attribute name "http://layer5.medialayer.net/~shaydoro/?page_id" (value="36/"") is invalid
line 121 column 43 - Warning: <img> attribute "height" has invalid value "257px"
line 121 column 43 - Warning: <img> attribute "width" has invalid value "391px"
line 131 column 95 - Warning: <img> attribute "height" has invalid value "257px"
line 131 column 95 - Warning: <img> attribute "width" has invalid value "391px"
line 141 column 93 - Warning: <img> attribute "height" has invalid value "257px"
line 141 column 93 - Warning: <img> attribute "width" has invalid value "391px"
line 151 column 31 - Warning: <a> escaping malformed URI reference
line 151 column 101 - Warning: <img> attribute "height" has invalid value "257px"
line 151 column 101 - Warning: <img> attribute "width" has invalid value "391px"
line 155 column 6 - Warning: <a> proprietary attribute "a"
line 167 column 114 - Warning: <img> attribute "height" has invalid value "257px"
line 167 column 114 - Warning: <img> attribute "width" has invalid value "391px"
line 170 column 114 - Warning: <img> attribute "height" has invalid value "257px"
line 170 column 114 - Warning: <img> attribute "width" has invalid value "391px"
line 173 column 114 - Warning: <img> attribute "height" has invalid value "257px"
line 173 column 114 - Warning: <img> attribute "width" has invalid value "391px"
line 176 column 114 - Warning: <img> attribute "height" has invalid value "257px"
line 176 column 114 - Warning: <img> attribute "width" has invalid value "391px"
Info: Doctype given is "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
Info: Document content looks like XHTML 1.0 Strict

Re: slow loading. You have a bunch of images as backgrounds - browsers have ot calculate then render this, which does take some time. You might want to amalgamate the backgrounds a little or just make them simpler.

[pandy]

Pandy...what's written below the URL? What did the OP write there? Back to school with you, Norma Jean!

Oh crap.