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Posted by dorayme on 05/28/05 03:39
> From: Leonard Blaisdell <leo@greatbasin.com>
> In article <BEBC9592.12092%dorayme@optusnet.com.au>,
> dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>> I was also wanting to know if folks think it could be much faster on dial up
>> given the considerable complexity of its brief. Or whether somehow, it would
>> have been very difficult to do so. I suspect that the designers are not
>> first class and do not have the knowledge that I see displayed often here.
>
> I can't see any of the problems you describe on Safari and a dial-up
> connection. The site even loaded fairly quickly. I haven't explored
> anything besides the main and signup pages. Considering I'm connecting
> from the western US, I really mean that it loads fairly quickly, perhaps
> 15 seconds.
I'm talking using the site in anger, looking for things. Pretend you want
some back springs for a specific old car and see how you go. I have since
posting this looked at some other sites that have a degree of complexity in
database and they fare so much better.
> My only gripe on the main page is that the bottom text is marginal to
> read as the page fades from blue to white. Whoops! I didn't originally
> see that "Sports & Leisure" and something unreadable above it don't fit
> in the white General section of the menu. Is there a menu section below
> General? If so, I can't see it. Let's check the source. Don't think so,
> but the menu's last two items are screwed up. Hmm. The w3c validator
> doesn't like it with 107 errors. Perhaps I was hasty in my original warm
> fuzzy feeling about the site.
Keep going!
I am sure that this site is an unnecessary tragedy. It is just that I can't
prove it!
dorayme
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