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How's about we post the URLs of our web sites and comment on each other's sites?

To keep this thread for URLs only, I'm gonna start another for comments so please post your web addresses only in this one. :-) Hopefully we'll be able to point out mistakes and maybe some of the more experienced of the forum users can offer some guidance as to where sites are going wrong.

I'll start:

www.drinkfosters.co.uk

Na†ßu© wrote:
> 3KB!?!? Thats tiny. How did you do that?

Short answer: Macromedia Fireworks MX

Long answer:
Image size: 200 x 150 pixels
File type: GIF
Palette: WebSnap Adaptive
Colours: 8
Final size: 4.04KB (OK, so it was 4KB not 3KB - but hey!)

It depends quite a lot on the images as well. If you pick a site that has lots of blue on it, it will tie in with Windows XP menus so you can reduce the number of colours. I picked a yellow and green site to minimise this.

Nimco wrote:
> Na†ßu© wrote:
> But my new one is www.ps2-ontarget.tk but I cant get screenshots at
> a
> low file size. Could anyone help?
>
> screenshots are very hard to produce at a low file size. I was gonna
> use thumbnail screenshots for a sitemap on my web site, but due to the
> way GIF compression works, it was impossible to get the 200x200 (ish)
> images smaller than about 3KB.

3KB!?!? Thats tiny. How did you do that?

Fog wrote:
> £Kb's bad? :/

3KB is bad when you have 5 or 6 of them on a page and you're trying to keep the page size below 20KB

£Kb's bad? :/

Na†ßu© wrote:
> But my new one is www.ps2-ontarget.tk but I cant get screenshots at a
> low file size. Could anyone help?

screenshots are very hard to produce at a low file size. I was gonna use thumbnail screenshots for a sitemap on my web site, but due to the way GIF compression works, it was impossible to get the 200x200 (ish) images smaller than about 3KB.

Fog wrote:
> i'd rather just make one website to fit

you might just be able to get away with using CSS to make things fit. e.g. a different CSS file for each version.

alternatively, just use relative dimensions (e.g. 90%) and make sure your site scales well.

Tha Criminal wrote:
> Mine is www.ps2world1.vze.com

Incidently my old one was www.ps2world.vze.com Funny that :D
But my new one is www.ps2-ontarget.tk but I cant get screenshots at a low file size. Could anyone help?

Mele wrote:
>

A better way would be to use a splash page and then set the res in a cookie for future pages to use this means you dont have to use a redirect.