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Posted by Blinky the Shark on November 22, 2007, 11:49 am
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Adrienne Boswell wrote:
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Heather Dugdale
> 65b4157c02b0@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com:
>
>> I am 24, am experiencing Huntington's Disease symptoms. My family is
>> one of the few in the world who have early onset. I was a Nurse before
>> I got sick. I made a positive, comprehensive website. It has a blog,
>> care giving tips, ways to fight brain fog, myths, my story, my
>> families' story, history, and ways to have a positive testing
>> experience. I also put on there the poems I got published in the
>> horizon. This illness gives people a host of mental symptoms. I have
>> won the most awards for a new site.
>>
>> http://heatherdugdale.angelfire.com/
>>
>
> Interesting content, and I wish you the best.
>
> The website, however, needs some help. Pink against green, even with
> large letters (I applaud you for this - considering the plethora of
> sites with microscopic text), is very difficult to read. I had to turn
> off your stylesheet to read it.
>
> The top heading graphics are too large. On my system, I have to scroll
> down once to get past the image to the content. I should not have to do
> that.
>
> The HTML is a mess, partly because of what Angelfire is adding, and
> partly because you probably do not know HTML that well, and used
> Angelfire's online web page creating thingy.
>
> Your topic is interesting, and important to others, so I would suggest
> getting real hosting - get a domain name, and hosting. You can get free
> or low cost hosting without ads, just shop around.
>
> Then get yourself a plain text HTML editor and then start hitting the
> tutorials. [http://www.htmldog.com/] is a good source. I would also
> suggest Alphaworks ADesigner
> [http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/adesigner], which can help you test
> accessibility (colors, etc). Use HTML Strict Doctype, and validate both
> the HTML and the CSS. Get a few browsers (Opera, Firefox, Safari, etc)
> and test is those as well.
>
> Good luck, and a Happy Thanksgiving to you are yours.
If you're on broadband, you may not have noticed the size. 700kb. One
image alone is over 350kb. Way too big. I wonder if on the large image
sizing is being done with markup.
From http://www.websiteoptimization.com :
56K 142.32 seconds
ISDN 128K 46.08 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps 7.29 seconds
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