dialups concern or no????????

[mark6110]

Re: dialups concern or no????????

Kate, You know that every comment made here comes with the unwritten codicil that "you are exempt from any negitive aspect of it". You must also know that you are not just important, you are the life blood of the forum.

Having said that, I have to aggree that if you design your site for the slowest download speeds it will never really be what you want the visitoer to see. It is a constant act of compromise.

[kassi59]

Re: dialups concern or no????????

mark - blush...I just wanted it to be said that everyone is a potential customer....I work with some elderly and they dont have the savvy for high speeds...lol.....just wanted to keep the dial uppers up and going!!!!!
and thats not easy!....with bad connections...hehehe...

[mark6110]

Re: dialups concern or no????????

I have just noticed that my last post was written by my dislexic half!
If there was a calorific expenditure related to posting kate would be the fittest of us all! I have never seen such fast and furious hop, skip and jumping from post to post. I am out of breath!
You may have a slow connection but make up for it with the fastest fingers in the east!

[kassi59]

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oh no, I keep browsers open and refresh...gotta make up for slow connections!...lol
at this moment I have 4 in vodahost
5 in another
3 in another
and on my firefox I have two browsers open with 6tabs on one and 8 tabs on the other...
hmm..guess I closed IE...lol
its not about speed, its ogranization...
gotta get back to bluevoda!...

[mark6110]

Re: dialups concern or no????????

organis..a.t..i..o..n
Must try that if I ever have time, thanks Kate. LOL

[kassi59]

Re: dialups concern or no????????

lol..I have to concidering I dont have the time some days, and there is much to do and not enought time...so I have to juggle, multitask..
hey mark,, you could try multitask!...lol...

[mark6110]

Re: dialups concern or no????????

I could Kate,
but I here the operation is very painfull and I am not too sure my wife would approve. Only women can mutitask, isn't that right? OUUCH!

[kassi59]

Re: dialups concern or no????????

Well thats what Ive heard darlin' but Im not one to believe what I hear...lol....I would think your wife would appreciate it if you could multitask!....

[choco777]

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FPRob,
really is only USD $611 london to cozumel. Tabasco is not that far from Cancun or Cozumel.
Got all caught up in multi tasking there for a minute

[FPRob]

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Thanks Choco .. At least once I have paid the airfare I know that I won't have any problems finding somewhere to stay hehehehe

;) ;) ;)

[Bethers]

Re: dialups concern or no????????

I completely disagree with anyone who says you should ignore dial-up - unless you are targeting for an area where almost all will have high speed. In the US, unfortunately, there are LOTS still with dial-up - especially in states with mountains - and they will click off the really slow loading sites very quickly to find another to purchase from that loads faster.

One of the reasons I switched to Voda from my previous webhost is there were things intrinsic in their hosting that caused my sites to load slow no matter how well I optimized. Selling products, I have to have pictures - but I can work very hard to optimize my pics to load as quickly as possible - and to take that into consideration.

Like screen resolution - you can't make everyone happy - but you have to take it all into consideration. Also, today - many people are using **** pilots and other devices - they even order from them - and those load slowly like dial-up.

[choco777]

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I do not have the programs such as Photo shop, etc. and there are no stors her that sell ANYTHING for computers
other than video games. Is there anything I can use to
reduce volume , size of images or change jpg to gif?? I can get it shipped maybe it gets here maybe not, registering is no assurance. They also tas imported goods, heavily.

[bill2006]

Re: dialups concern or no????????

I do not have the programs such as Photo shop, etc. and there are no stors her that sell ANYTHING for computers
other than video games. Is there anything I can use to
reduce volume , size of images or change jpg to gif?? I can get it shipped maybe it gets here maybe not, registering is no assurance. They also tas imported goods, heavily.

Aren't you using PixResizer?
Certain programs. like Picasa2, will also let you resize for email and posting.
You can get anything you want from el DF.
I agree you need the dial-ups, too many use it.

[FPRob]

Re: dialups concern or no????????

You can get The Corel Graphics Suite or Adobe Photoshop of eBay for a remarkable price and... They are original copies 99% of the time too.

I definitely recommend Corel for ease of use and learning about graphics.

:)

[Vasili]

Re: dialups concern or no????????

Hi Chocco... It loaded quick for me too but thats a broadband thing as you noticed. One of your main problems will be the file size of the picture on your index page. The one in the top left. Try re-doing it but saving as GIF not a JPG. The quality will be slightly lower but it will shave maybe 80% off the file size.

NOT TRUE

George-
If you simply run each of your images through the Free VH pix resizer, it will sufficiently reduce your JPG file sizes for optimal dialup loads.....
(file size should be 70-100 for instance).

It's best to stick with "tried and true" BV advice.....it's a standard for a reason.
And, that's why you recently recieved hints to reduce the number of pictures on your pages, combining content in a balanced approach.