New women on the block

message from EMMA-MAC on 17 Jul 2004

Hello everyone,
This is my first post here and as normal Dreamweaver has done a first class
forum.
First i am a novice who has built a website in memery of my dear lost friend
and companion Sophie who was a 2 year old Boxer DOG girl.
Secondly the site got a high listing straight away so i built upon the site
and put a forum and message board that was all free (I AM NOT AT THAT STAGE )
i get about 800 to 1000 visitors aday.
Thirdly here is my question,
when i browse the net pages upload on my computer bit by bit but my own
website i have to wait untill the whole page uploads before i see anything ?
why does this happen only with my site.
Also if you look at the bottom of the homepage at the bottom of page and with
other pages on the site my tables are on the top of the page yet the page keeps
going on and on with nothing there to exstend the page so there is nothing to
delete to shorton page HABE A LOOK YOUR SEL'F TO SEE WHAT I MEAN but remember i
am no pro just a factory worker with a passion for the world to see my loved
and lost Dog Sophie.
https://www.sophiemacdougall.fsnet.co.uk
P.S IF ANY OF YOU COULD TELL ME THE UPLOAD SPEED OF THIS PAGE ON YOUR COMPUTER
I WOULD BE VERY GREATFUL .
Last but not least if anyone could come up with more ideas for the site that
would also be very greatful
EMMA XXX

two can's replied to EMMA-MAC on 17 Jul 2004

Hi yea,
I have a 516 kps connection and tried to open your site, I didnt get to open
the page as one after a minute it took too long and 2 I seem to think there
is more then just html code behind it all lol.

I find that when I click the link to your page I also get a "unknown zone
icon " at the bottom of my screen. I wont go and try opening the page again
until i have a good firewall or anti virus on.

regards

twocan's

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Michael Fesser replied to two can's on 17 Jul 2004

.oO(two can's)

If you're afraid about the target of a link I strongly recommend to
change the browser. And why do you need an AV-software while surfing the
web?

Micha

Larry replied to EMMA-MAC on 17 Jul 2004

Emma,

Your URL is http etc., not https. https is secure socket link. On an
sdsl connection from the US, the load time was about 10 sec. using FF 0.9.
Certainly no big deal, but you often use "there" when you mean "their".
You might want to use more sans serif typefaces. The forum link brings up
something that looks like windows and wants to install on one's machine.
That is generally not acceptable and often stops one from proceeding any
further. It did me.

EMMA-MAC replied to EMMA-MAC on 17 Jul 2004

WWW.SOPHIEMACDOUGALL.FSNET.CO.UK
is the address not sure why the link is not working on dreamweaver message board

Murray *TMM* replied to EMMA-MAC on 17 Jul 2004

Here's the head content of your document -

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
*** Note that this is a 'broken' doctype. This is going to cause your page
to be rendered in 'quirks' mode. DMX incorrectly inserts this doctype. You
should either remove it, or fix it as follows -
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"
Having a correct doctype means that your page will be rendered in Standards
mode - to read about this, go here -
http://www.w3.org ***
<html>
<head>
<title>BOXER DOGS SOPHIE OUR BOXER DOG DIED SO YOUNG</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="keywords" content="Keywords here">
<meta name="description" content="Description here">
<meta name="Author" content="MyFreeTemplates.com">
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index, follow">

<META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="30 days">
<META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global">
<META NAME="rating" CONTENT="general">
<META NAME="Content-Language" CONTENT="english">



<meta name="" content=""boxer dogs, {snip} message board.">
*** Note -----^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Your content is OUTSIDE the quotes and as a result will be ignored, not that
it makes so much difference. Meta tags are marginally useful in influencing
search engine ranking. But I'm curious why you didn't use the empty Keyword
and Description tags closer to the <title>? ***
<meta name="description" content="Our little boxer dog died at the age of
two and a half years old of kidney failer please take a look at this site.">

<script language="JavaScript">


*** Note that this is a redundant instance of the jump menu code. You can
just delete it. Remove this -
<script language="JavaScript">

***
</script>
</head>

Further down in the code you have this -

<table width="100%" height="71%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
background="file:///C|/unzipped/myfreetemplates-jd_b030/jd_b030%20-%20myfree
templates.com/images/topnavbg.jpg"

Obviously, that is not going to work. This often happens when you insert an
image that is not within the root of the current site, and do NOT copy it
into the site. Looking at the path to the image, I'd say that is what
happened here. The solution is to remake the link and to not make that same
mistake.

You have multiple instances of code like this -

<div align="center"><a
href="message_boxer_dogs.htm">MESSAGE

BOARD</a>
</div>

which is the result of the "if the first keypress doesn't do what you think
it should, press it again, only harder" syndrome. You can fix this and all
the other instances by a) not doing that again, and b) using COMMANDS |
Clean up HTML.

Your page loads slowly because it just has alot of content, but mostly
because of the complex nested table arrangement. I suggest that you run
through the table tutorials at the DW FAQ link in my sig.

John Gaver replied to Murray *TMM* on 17 Jul 2004

Well, Murray beat me to most of what I saw.

<table width="100%" border="1" bgcolor="#0000FF" bordercolor="#0000FF"
height="2708">

That "2708" is probably what's causing the long space at the bottom.

John Gaver
Action America
(forget everything to contact me direct)

Microsoft: (n) Job security for IT consultants.

Michael Fesser replied to Murray *TMM* on 17 Jul 2004

.oO(Murray *TMM*)

Additionally most of the used meta-elements on that page are pretty
useless. I would remove them all except for keywords, description and
maybe author (Content-Type should be part of the server's response
header and instead of Content-Language the lang-atrribute on the html-
element could be used).

Even better - remove the entire navigation table, it's completely crap
(contains broken and useless markup, empty anchors, tons of deprecated
stuff, more than 2.500(!) indentation blanks). Currently the nav table
requires more than 8KB. Now compare it with this version:

<ul id="nav">
...
<li><a href="closing.htm">LIVE WEBCAM</a></li>
<li><a href="henryspictures_boxer_dogs.htm">HENRY'S PICTURES</a></li>
<li><a href="ellie-boxer-dogs.htm">ELLIE'S PICTURES</a></li>
<li><a href="message_boxer_dogs.htm">MESSAGE BOARD</a></li>
...
</ul>

Less than 1KB and easy to style with three lines of CSS.

Just my 2 cents

Micha

Gary White replied to Murray *TMM* on 17 Jul 2004

</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
 
</div>
 
<div align="center"> </div>
 
 

Gary

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