BMX - Just Finished Redoing My Site
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CMcMahon
06-03-05, 02:48 AM
sjbmx.com | covering the san jose, ca bmx scene (http://www.sjbmx.com)
It actually loads in less than 30 minutes on 56k now. Any comments/suggestions/sh1ttalk/etc?
edit: I should be back riding in two or three weeks BTW. It feels great to be able to wash my arm again.
LaBella
06-03-05, 06:15 AM
pretty cool!
i have a forum, too!
*shameless plug*
KinetikBiker
06-03-05, 07:52 AM
looks really good...
im IN THE PROCCESS of making my own "scence" website....
http://kinetik8.tripod.com/
i only looked under news (homepage), i like the font at the top, but you need to make the list of news less listy, separate them in boxes or make em a little more interesting. to much text all in one place.
MadMan2k
06-11-05, 09:43 PM
I liked the last one, it was a great design. This one looks alright, just not as attractive in my opinion. Load times weren't bad... the images were the main thing, not the page elements.
Nice website, but one complaint, this is the age of broadband, you could have made the thumbnail images in the gallery a little bit larger.
CMcMahon
06-11-05, 10:25 PM
Unfortunately, in the age of broadband, a good half of the people that visit the site on a regular basis don't have broadband, and whined to me endlessly about how slow the old site (with 60x80 thumbnails) loaded.
MadMan2k
06-12-05, 12:14 AM
There is no way a 20 pixel wide image needs to be 15KB. Use compression, people aren't going to make a damn print from your thumbnails and then whine because it's blurry.
EDIT:
On second thought, just use .GIF.
http://www.sjbmx.com/images/0505sanjose/pbuchanan_nosepick_cmcmahon_s.jpg
15KB.
http://www.jonbuder.com/temp/beerman_image.gif
<1KB.
I loaded like 700 KB of your thumbnails, and gave up. You should be able to use .GIF without any quality problems even on 80x60.
alcahueteria
06-12-05, 01:15 AM
I might recommend a margin, maybe 20 - 30 pixels or so. I kind of like those small thumbnails too, they are just enough to give you an idea of what your gonna see.
CMcMahon
06-12-05, 05:46 PM
I probably will end up making them GIF, but the thought didn't come aross to me when I was working on the site, mainly because 15kb really isn't even all that big in the first place, even with dialup.
arcticwolf15
06-13-05, 09:52 AM
It's already been said but maybe you should put those news messages in some type of ordered boxes, or margin that out and put some headers to seperated them. It's just too much text right there.
MadMan2k
06-14-05, 05:41 PM
You could always consider seperate pages for galleries... I think about 300KB of thumbnails is a good limit per page. Of course, you could get about 100 in a page using GIF files... Maybe 50 per page would be good.
Or just have them on the same page, I mean the viewers did click 'photos' after all.