Thread: Very nervouse,but here goes

Hi everybody.

I only just published my home page , so links do NOT work, but it is loading really really slow????
Does the same happen for you??
Any ideas?, all the pics are pixed so I cant think of anything myself.

Please let me know and thanks for all your support!!

Karin

www.nativetreasures.co.uk

Hi Redkate, don't be nervous... It wasn't too bad for me, only a few seconds, however you could help speed the page up by using a picture resizer to reduce the pixels down whilst keeping the same size image. This is better than squashing them up manually. BV has a picture resizer somewhere, sorry not sure of the link.

Loaded quite fast here as well; just a few seconds. You can test your page by typing / pasting your url in this site and run a check: http://www.sitereportcard.com/

In the results, click on Load Time Check for a break down of your image loading time.

Hi Marincky, Thanks for your comfort :) it does help knowing I'm not alone.
About the resizing; I used the bv pixresizer on the pic's, so can't make that any better, but thanks for the heads up :)

Hi Tom vR,

Thanks for that, what a brilliant site!!
I went for the test, and it said it takes approx. 67 sec. to load, which I guess isn't that bad ;)
Must be my own connection than. I don't really mind then, as long as it's faster for everybody else :)

Thanks again, both of you.

P.S. I have loaded all the pages now, hop you'll let me know what you think? (good or bad)

Karin

www.nativetreasures.co.uk

Love the site, nice work. As you are from Hampshire why are you spelling Jewellery . JEWELRY ?

Hi
I love your site loaded fast enough on my end and all page links work so you must have done some work since you posted keep tweaking it looks fantastic
two cats

Hi both :)
Thank for the comments, I'm smiling ear to ear ;)
and Marincky, I think thats because I lived in the states to long ;)
Old Habbits die hard, Especially if your Dutch lol

Thanks you two, Karin

Karin,

Keep smiling....your site looks GREAT from here!!

Daniel-

Originally Posted by Marincky

Love the site, nice work. As you are from Hampshire why are you spelling Jewellery . JEWELRY ?

I find it very appropriate for her to spell it in American English, since her site is devoted to American Native Items (when in Rome...).........which reminds me to suggest trying to work "American Native Items" into your verbiage to clarify and to add to KW value, as I caught myself a couple of times snagging a thought on American 'Indian' Natives in the UK.....

Hi Karin,

I had the same thought as Vasili concerning which "Natives", my confusion compounded by artifacts "from all over the world".

Otherwise, nice job!

Me again,

I do now see pics of the south seas, perhaps make them larger to illustrate a more world-wide sense?

One more thought, though it does make most people think of Australia:

ab·o·rig·i·nal /ˌæbəˈrɪdʒənl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ab-uh-rij-uh-nl] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –adjective 1.of, pertaining to, or typical of aborigines: aboriginal customs. 2.original or earliest known; native; indigenous: the aboriginal people of Tahiti. –noun 3.aborigine (def. 1). 4.(initial capital letter) aborigine (def. 2).
[Origin: 1660–70; aborigine + -al1]

—Related formsab·o·rig·i·nal·i&#18 3;ty, noun
ab·o·rig·i·nal·ly, adverb

—Synonyms 2. endemic, autochthonous, primordial.

Karin,

You're site is beautiful. .. .your fine taste really shines through. ..very elegant look and the loading was fine for me. You've got a very successful site on your hands there!

Originally Posted by lemmondr

Karin,

Keep smiling....your site looks GREAT from here!!

Daniel-

Thanks Daniel,

I will keep on smiling and making it even better (I hope) :)

Originally Posted by Vasili

I find it very appropriate for her to spell it in American English, since her site is devoted to American Native Items (when in Rome...).........which reminds me to suggest trying to work "American Native Items" into your verbiage to clarify and to add to KW value, as I caught myself a couple of times snagging a thought on American 'Indian' Natives in the UK.....

Hi Vasili & Mcwalsh62,

Thanks for your input!!! :)
I'll have a good think about what to do about the 'confusion'.
And work on the images too (hmmmm,think think) ;)
I want to to come accross that I dont sell, 'made in china' stuff, but everything made by the 'native' people of their countries.
aka. Native American Indians = USA
Maori= New Zealand, Aboriginals = Australia, Samoans = Samoa (Polynesian), Tongans= Tonga, etc.etc
Not sure on how to word it without it becoming to much information to read before understanding though?
Any thoughts on this for me??, any are welcome :)
and Mcwalsh, not sure on the pronunciation bit?? Should I use Australian Aboriginals perhaps?? (sorry, but I am Dutch)lol

Hope to hear from you again,

Karin

Originally Posted by McBuff

Karin,

You're site is beautiful. .. .your fine taste really shines through. ..very elegant look and the loading was fine for me. You've got a very successful site on your hands there!

Thanks McBUff!!!

making me blush you do :)
Good to hear it is loading well then, for me it is still slow, but it's more important for others to see it the proper way, and yes, lets hope it will be successful.

Thank you very much,
Karin

Hi Karin,

Maybe something like: "We sell Only Authentic Native Goods, fashioned by the indigenous peoples of..." and list some or all of the countries represented. I personally would not have "thriving to " in the sentence, it says to me that you aren't, but are trying.

Keep on pluggin' away, it will be great!

WAUW!!
That's sounds brilliant :), sometimes I do struggle with the correct wording of it all.
My brain is overloaded with the combination of Dutch, UK-English & American English, and as I am 100% Dutch, but live & think in English it becomes very confusing at times.( my mom doesn't even understand me at times, lol)
So, a GREAT BIG thank you your way for putting me in the right (wording) direction, I really,really, appreciate it!!!

I'll let you know when I've updated some of the things :)

Thanks again, Karin

No problem, anytime!

I am looking forward to updates.

See Ya'

P.S. Yes, I am brilliant (just kidding, but thanks for the thought).

Hey!! lol Your cheeky ;) but your help IS great! :)

I just updated my homepage only and going to work on the rest and see what I can do.
Including meta tags, because I think I just wacked the whole lot in my keydigger search?!?!?? Don't know if that was a good move.
Quickly off to do more research now ;)

Let me know what you think? Thanx!!

Karin

Hi Karin,

Check your e-mail, too much to post here.

Mike

Originally Posted by redkate5

I'll have a good think about what to do about the 'confusion'.
I want to to come accross that I dont sell, 'made in china' stuff, but everything made by the 'native' people of their countries.
aka. Native American Indians = USA
Maori= New Zealand, Aboriginals = Australia, Samoans = Samoa (Polynesian), Tongans= Tonga, etc.etc
Not sure on how to word it without it becoming to much information to read before understanding though?
Any thoughts on this for me??, any are welcome :)

Opens a big conversation (on having a single catch-all terminology to deal with a global reference) ..... I keep getting phrases and text strings floating through my mind, but none of them are rather useful because they apply to a single continent or a "type" of peoples.

When I morph the concept out further from the narrower perspective, words like indigenous, original, local/regional, traditional, etc. all seem to be teeming on the surface churning up more froth than anything useful! LOL

It might be more helpful to craft a textual concept around the intimations of "authentic" / "genuine" / "hand-crafted" / "traditional" / "individual," and the like. See what I mean? By presenting everything along the overall perspective of being "true" rather than simply an assortment or comtemporary collection, you may be better able to convey the same impression and pique interest in the same manner museums and even galleries do: focus on the (detailed and duocumented) uniqueness and highlight on your singular offer of accessibility/availability....underscored with your credible resourcefulness?

Maybe a change of a banner might do the trick visually where words fail?

(Just ideas here, so) Like maybe Earth in the background with silhouettes of different recognizable figures (American Indian, aborigine, eskimo, etc.) to somehow suggest "earth natives"??? Something along that idea makes it easier to present more of a 'cosmopolitan' idea of an answer to the question "native what?" >> Earth Native, native to earth

Or just a lineup of silhouettes? I dunno....tis a brain tease to be sure....now I can't get free of the collage/kaleidescope rut that my mind fell into.....

LOL ;)
Sorry for throwing you in a whirlwind of thoughts there Vasili :)
But yes, it is a concept hard to describe in just a single word or phrase.]
I did however update my front page a bit with the help of mwalsh, hopefully wording it a bit better.
I will try to use your helpfull words/phrases as well though, probable use them in my metetags and page discription.
Still on a thinkting trip myself too, lol, so I hope you don't mind me joining you in your kaleidescope rut.... ;)
Thanks for your help, word and banner wise.
"Shoots off to the drawing board and puts thinking helmet on" lol

Karin

Hi, your sites coming on well & got some nice things for sale. The only thing i found strange is that a lot of your thumbnails images are actually larger in KB's the the larger pop up it self.??
IE: Thumbnail http://www.nativetreasures.co.uk/tn_...mmy_Singer.png is 40KB & the larger image
http://www.nativetreasures.co.uk/221...mmy_Singer.jpg is only 27Kb
This is on quite a few images.
The pages still load quite well, but would be even faster with a little change. The ping images that you are using are a very good type of image to reduce down to 3 or 4 kb without loosing any quality.

Hi Chris,

Those are one and the same pic though? If I was to reduce the size of the main one, wouldn't that change the pop-up too??

and, can I reduce them with the pixresizer from bluevoda? or do I have to this with another program? (only other I have is the basic paint)

Thanks for your feedback and help Chris, I really appreciate it :)

Karin

Originally Posted by redkate5

Hi Chris,

Those are one and the same pic though? If I was to reduce the size of the main one, wouldn't that change the pop-up too??

and, can I reduce them with the pixresizer from bluevoda? or do I have to this with another program? (only other I have is the basic paint)

Thanks for your feedback and help Chris, I really appreciate it :)

Karin

Me again, I just checked the properties of those particular pictures. (on what the sizes are) but it tells me that they are the same size as the thumbnail??????
Am I missing something here? how can they be bigger in size on my site, while they are the same size as my harddrive???
I'm confusseled? ? ? ?

It is a strange one. How are you placing the images on your pages.
With just a pop up or the BV gallery?.

With the gallery.
Could that be it? maybe the other 13kb is because of the gallery?

Whats worth a quick look is to see that you have ticked the "Generate Thumbnail Images" in the gallery properties area.

Good thought, just checked, and I have ticked the box.....?????

Strange one? I tried a couple of test pages with jpg & png with different settings, & got the same as you have on your pages. The jpg's are ok & reducing. But the png's increase in size.
http://www.collectors-info.com/testing/png1.html
http://www.collectors-info.com/testing/png2.html

As said earlier, with your size images it loads ok. But personally i would use 2 separate images as a pop up with some html code. Tend to get a better finish this way.

Hmm, in deed tricky.
I would love to give your idea a go, but could you help me with that?
I don't really know how to do the two seperate?

Cheers Chris, for your time and help, I really appreciate this :)
Karin

Hi, You would have to upload 2 images to your site (1 Thumbnail & 1 large image) Then adjust the code below to suite your images & place in an html box on your page.
Red = large popup link
Mauve= size of large pop up (worth adding 20px to this part)
Green = pop up position from top & left of screen on where it will show.
Blue=thumbnail link
Orange=is the thumbnail size.

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<a href=""#" onClick="window.open('http://www.collectors-info.com/testing/01.jpg', '','alt=some good alt text here, width=620, height=420, left=200, top=150,'); return false;""><img src="http://www.collectors-info.com/testing/tn_01.png" width=160, hight=106 border=0></a>

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Cut and paste the code between the lines above, pop it inti a html box & press preview to test.

Good luck.

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:) Cheers for that Chris, I will have a play about in BV and see if I can get the hang of it.
I will let you know how I get on. :)

PS. the pics, do I do that with the blueFTP??

Karin

Yep! Or any other ftp program.

Thanks!! ;)

Will let you know how I get on.

Karin

Hello,
The Lakota regalia pic is still huge (electronically) 87+ kb's.
I will squeeze it down in PhotoShop to apprx 30K without any noticeable change if you like?
Contact me www.zone5pix.com/contactus.html and I will return it to you as an attachment.
The home page took 9 sec's for it to fully load on my cable connection.

Great! and Thanks! :)
I send you an email via your site.

Karin