Big Help Needed
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Topic: Big Help Needed
Posted By: Spirit-Medium
Subject: Big Help Needed
Date Posted: 16 March 2005 at 5:23pm
I have just started to change my website and ive deleted alot of pages and i have just named my first page home.htm but when i type in my url it wont go to that first page anymore and i think ive deleted something i shouldnt have... Can anyone lend a hand please?  ------------- Sceptics Are Being Silenced... Believers Are Being Blinded By The Light. |
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 16 March 2005 at 5:34pm
| Ask your hosting company what the default start page names are. You can try naming it to index.htm, default.htm, those are common ones. Try .html extensions also if the htm ones do not work. |
Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 16 March 2005 at 5:36pm
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when you say typed the URL do you mean http://www.yourdomain.com or http://www.yourdomain.com/home.html if the second one then all you ned to do is set home.html as a folder index, this will then allow you to got to the first URL i wrote , which actually is showing the 2nd URL |
Posted By: Spirit-Medium
Date Posted: 16 March 2005 at 5:40pm
Its when i type http://www.mostlyhaunted.org - www.mostlyhaunted.org it just comes up with >>
Directory Listing DeniedThis Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed.------------- Sceptics Are Being Silenced... Believers Are Being Blinded By The Light. |
Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 16 March 2005 at 5:50pm
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right you need to set home.htm as one of the directory index as they are sometimes called or default files. as gullanian said those are the default above, you need to add home.htm to the list, you maybe able to do this yourself, or have to get your host to do so. |
Posted By: Spirit-Medium
Date Posted: 17 March 2005 at 9:22am
Sorry ive only just had chance to reply. When i try to call my page default.htm a warning screen comes up and says the "Lock on the file" has been deleted by a user.  So what is it i would need to ask my webwiz host for?------------- Sceptics Are Being Silenced... Believers Are Being Blinded By The Light. |
Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 18 March 2005 at 3:23pm
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im not sure what that error means. i would ask your host to allow you to set home.htm as a default page like default and index .asp,.htm,.html etc. is this a free host, who is your host? |
Posted By: Spirit-Medium
Date Posted: 19 March 2005 at 12:21am
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Ive fixed it now thanks anyway.
No its not a free host its Bruce. ------------- Sceptics Are Being Silenced... Believers Are Being Blinded By The Light. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 19 March 2005 at 5:14am
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Allan I've just looked at your site, it looks good but you haven't
compressed any of your images so the file sizes are very large using
allot of bandwidth. Like your t3.jpg image at the top, is 145.44 KB, you should try and keep all images on your pages to below 20KB at the most. Also the text on your page is as an image which is 83KB in size, this is not only using allot of bandwidth with the image file size being large, but also as an image search engine won't be able to index your text. You would be better changing this to normal text and using CSS to get the style you require. The web site optimisation site at:- http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/wso.php?url=www.mostlyhaunted.org/ - http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/wso.php?url=http://www.mostlyhaunted.org/ Shows your home page to be over 350KB in size!!! which for those uses with a 56k dial up modem would take over 1 minute for the page to load!!! You should try and get the size of your pages down to 30KB to 50KB in size at the most including all your images. This will not only reduce the bandwidth your site uses, but also those users on dial up modems don't really want to wait over a minute for your page to load, so you should attract more visitors. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: xeerex
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 2:10am
Absolutely agreed.  Your
"Contact Us" sliced image is 32KB which is crazy for such a small .gif
image. I did a quick image job on it and have it down to 3KB which is a
massive reduction on just that image.Reduced File Size Version 3KB  If you need some help on reducing images, let us know. Also, Geekforum.com has a great forum (running WWG) for graphics help as well. ------------- http://webspacegeeks.com - Need Hosting, Domains, Dedicated Servers? http://www.smartergeek.com - web design | pc support | training | podcasts | video production |
-borg- wrote:Posted By: xeerex
Date Posted: 20 March 2005 at 2:20am
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I also took a look at your header images on your forum. Your forum
banner image alone is 137KB plus the banner image below it. I took both
together as 1 image and have it reduced to 25KB for both images. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/xeerex/MostlyHauntedHeader.jpg - Click Here to view the file (so as not to break the width of this post). Hope this helps you out some. ------------- http://webspacegeeks.com - Need Hosting, Domains, Dedicated Servers? http://www.smartergeek.com - web design | pc support | training | podcasts | video production |
Posted By: Spirit-Medium
Date Posted: 21 March 2005 at 3:21am
Thanks ive just sent you a p.m.  ------------- Sceptics Are Being Silenced... Believers Are Being Blinded By The Light. |
Posted By: Spirit-Medium
Date Posted: 21 March 2005 at 9:29pm
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I have just started to compress some of my images but it makes them go realy fuzzy and scruffy. Any tips for me please? ------------- Sceptics Are Being Silenced... Believers Are Being Blinded By The Light. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 March 2005 at 5:44am
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You have changed your site again, it's now over 500KB in size!!! That has to be one of the largest file sizes I have ever seen for a page, even with a 700Kb connection the page took over 30 seconds to load. Those with dial up connections will be waiting over 3 minuets for your page to load. I can't see anyone waiting that long. Most people won't want to wait that long for a page to load and will move onto the next site. To compress images try compressing them as both JPEG and GIF and see which sizes ends up smaller. Software like Macromedia Fireworks shows you previews in different formats and their file sizes which you can vary the compression amount on so you can get a good balance between quality and file size. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Spirit-Medium
Date Posted: 23 March 2005 at 1:55am
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Ive just got my size of my pages down alot thankyou for all your help. But now ive run out of bandwidth but when it comes back on it will be much much smaller.
Im now useing microsoft office picture manager which is brill ive got the first page of my website down to around 25kb up to now.
Thanks again.
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Posted By: xeerex
Date Posted: 23 March 2005 at 9:36am
Yep -- I sent him a PM reply with some basic information on that including just using Ifranview if he didn't have Fireworks or Photoshop. It'll be interesting to see what the size of his images are when the site comes back online. ------------- http://webspacegeeks.com - Need Hosting, Domains, Dedicated Servers? http://www.smartergeek.com - web design | pc support | training | podcasts | video production |
Posted By: Spirit-Medium
Date Posted: 23 March 2005 at 2:45pm
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What do you think of it now? please let me know.
Thanks. ------------- Sceptics Are Being Silenced... Believers Are Being Blinded By The Light. |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 23 March 2005 at 2:54pm
| Better, but there are a hell of a lot of images still, took a while for me to load on 700k |
Posted By: Spirit-Medium
Date Posted: 23 March 2005 at 3:21pm
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How many seconds would you say it took as all the pictures are now compressed. ------------- Sceptics Are Being Silenced... Believers Are Being Blinded By The Light. |