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laughing247
Joined: Sep 14, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Sep-14 19:11
Name of Site/Business: Arkansas outdoors
Site's Main Purpose: Advertising (eg Banners, Google Adsense etc.)
Please Review the following:
Does the home page sufficiently convince people to go further into the site?
Does/can the site achieve its main purpose?
Appearance/Attractiveness
Additional Comments/Notes
I am just leary of paying for traffic if i don't have a site that will make money. your thoughts please.
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OAC
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Joined: Jan 25, 2001
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Posted: 2005-Sep-15 09:12
Wow - nice site!
You need to "optimize" your images to minimize their size. With the current images the size they are, your home page is about 2 meg. This means it will take nearly seven (7) minutes to download for someone on a dial up line. You should try and get your images down to a size of less than 30k each, with a total page size of about 100k (i.e. reduce it by 95%.
Excellent job with the site.
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laughing247
Joined: Sep 14, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Sep-15 16:30
How do i change the size of the pictures? Do I edit it on my hard drive?
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OAC
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Posted: 2005-Sep-16 07:36
Image software such as Photoshop and Fireworks optimize image file sizes.
These are cheaper alternatives but note that I haven't used either of them:
[link] software: Image Optimizer
www.netmechanic.com/accelerate.htm service: Net Mechanic
[link] service or software: Spin Wave
I'd probably try a service, if I were in your shoes. Test the Spin Wave one - the test version reduces the file sizes by 30%, so you can see how it works.
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JQ
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Joined: Mar 11, 2001
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Posted: 2005-Sep-16 08:09
The biggest problem with your image sizes is that some are in .bmp format.
bret11.bmp - 921K
jessie.BMP - 225K
etc.
Save them in .jpg format.
IrfanView is a freeware graphics program that can handle the image format conversions.
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laughing247
Joined: Sep 14, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Sep-19 14:25
Hey you guys are great! thank you for your input and advice i will be working on this immediately.
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laughing247
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Posted: 2005-Sep-19 16:57
Thanks guys i should have most of the pictures down sized there may be a couple of pictures i missed but check and see if its any better.
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OAC
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Posted: 2005-Sep-20 07:43
It is a lot better but the image at the foot of the home page is still 1.1 meg
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bcrdrink
Joined: Sep 27, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Sep-28 01:46
Being a hunter I enjoyed looking thru the site.
I think you offer everything a person would need to hunt arkansas. I found all links working site was very smooth.
Much Success
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