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Part of my website has a 'dol maker' on it. Amazingly enough it brings in like 10,000 hits a month... Anyway, It tends to take a while to load. The page is very graphic intesive and is in tables which seems to make it take longer to load. I would have heard that there are programs that will compress my files so they load longer? As it is, I have the image files as small as they can get without looking bad (I use PSP). Is this true?
What I REALLY need/want is a script (perl/cgi... java even?) for windowsNS that will allow the user to choose a category of images to display, so not all of the images available are being displayed (saving on image loading time). Only the wanted ones. The images also need to be drag and drop-able.
Can anyone help?
But in relation to
"I would have heard that there are programs that will compress my files so they load longer? As it is, I have the image files as small as they can get without looking bad (I use PSP). Is this true? "
I guess you mean load faster not longer ...
If you are optimising using PSP as jpeg or gif images to the level at which the images start to visually degrade then there may be no more savings to be made there.
Have you considered simplifying the style of the page such that areas can become simple one colour which could be rendered in html and perhaps that the page could be spliced up with some areas better made as gif, others as jpeg and others as perhaps html tables with colour or even using bgcolor etc ..
Re the third para .. I have no idea what you are referring to really here ... but it does seem odd not to allow users to select a subset of elements to load .. does this bit have to be clever or can you just do it manually :-)
