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Downloading Pictures and Buttons Quicker

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Topic: Downloading Pictures and Buttons Quicker

Posted By: Misty
Subject: Downloading Pictures and Buttons Quicker
Date Posted: 14 December 2005 at 2:30am

I have a very nice web site, http://www.explorencmountains.com - http://www.explorencmountains.com that takes a few minutes to completely download if someone is using a dial up. I really would like for it to download within 15 seconds for a dial up user. I am not interested in removing my pictures.

Look at the include file: http://www.explorencmountains.com/include_buttons.asp - http://www.explorencmountains.com/include_buttons.asp . Most of the pictures are at least 30 KB in size. How do I compress the pictures without changing the sizes? How can I make the web page download much faster?

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Posted By: theSCIENTIST
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 3:58pm

In my browser with JS and Flash disabled I can only see the logo and some buttons below it, however, upon close inpection your buttons are graphics when all that's in there can easily be recreated with CSS or HTML alone, so scrape the graphics.

Just checked the code of the page, there's a whole lot of Javascript there, don't know what it does, either a roll-over effect or menus, for roll-over use CSS, much better, for menus you may also get it done with CSS or Flash that can load it's contents from a text or xml file, much more pratical than JS.

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Posted By: cctran
Date Posted: 24 December 2005 at 11:29pm

If you are using IIS 6, you can get a product such as zipenable that will turn on iis 6's native compression. If you are using Apache, I believe mod_gzip would do the trick. It's hard to compress JPEG though, you might get 3% compression out of it at a loss of 10% of your processor. It's best to compress the static files such as .js and .css, since then it can be cached easily by the web daemon. If you want, you can also compress the dynamic page like .asp, .aspx -- the drawback to compression dynamic pages is that itll eat up cpu cycles because itll have to compress on every request. I use compression and it saves me over 70% bandwidth.

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