Computer crashes when website is opened! 1

[flasher]

A client just emailed me that a few ppl. have reported having their whole system crash upon opening the website!

http://www.torahinmotion.org

.Does anyone know why that would be happening?? That's terrible. Also, I noticed that the blue bground shows up and then you have to wait a a few seconds before the page loads. I don't understand why it doesn't load a bit at a time like normal.. It's just blank until the whole thing loads and then the whole thing comes in at once! Are these 2 issues connected? I thought perhaps it was b/c of the flash in middle of the page but why? Or because of the bg music? But a lot of sites have music and it's fine... Its a .mid file. Any ideas?? thank you in advance!

 

[xutopia]

hi there flasher,

I see no problem with the page in both IE6 and Mozilla (except for the music that I didn't ask for).

Ask the people that sent you the email what browser version they are using and what system as well. Maybe you can kindly ask them to upgrade. Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran

 

[flasher]

Did you notice the couple seconds of waiting for the page to load?

 

[xutopia]

yes I did but I am on dialup.

I believe the reason why nothing appears until the whole page is loaded is due to the table wrapping everything.

There are a few things that could be deleted to make your page load faster.

Lines 65-71 included could be deleted.
Lines 110-119 could be changed to one single line :

<td colspan=&quot;10&quot;><img src=&quot;torahinmotion_subimages/spacer.gif&quot; width=&quot;614&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; name=&quot;undefined_2&quot;></td>

so can any lines starting with <!-- and ending with -->

This could make your page load a bit faster. These problems are all dreamweaver artifacts. Things that Dreamweaver puts there but is useless. You should consider using a text editor like utltraedit and write code this way.

I hope this helps. Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran

 

[mickyjune26]

hey, how long did it take you to create that flash? It's simple, but effective!

 

[flasher]

Hi, Did you mean that every line starting with <!-- and ending with --> should be deleted or should be replaced with:

<td colspan=&quot;10&quot;><img src=&quot;torahinmotion_subimages/spacer.gif&quot; width=&quot;614&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; name=&quot;undefined_2&quot;></td>

?

 

[flasher]

Would you mind checking out what I deleted and telling me if I deleted the wrong thing or what else needs to go, because I didn't notice any change in the loading of the page... thanks a million.

 

[cian]

Loaded pretty fast for me, no problems. There's quite a lot of images though, 20+. Getting rid of some of these will help, especially if they are all within the table.

The music is annoying though.


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[xutopia]

flasher I meant that content that starts with <!-- and ends with --> is useless and can be deleted. There are quite a few lines like these that can be deleted. This would save a few lines of code. Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran

 

[flasher]

xutopia, hi, I think I followed your instructions and i didn't notice any difference in the loading. Do you think I missed out something or should I just try removing the music...? thanks.

 

[xutopia]

the difference with just a few lines shouldn't be that significant anyway.

The music on your page is the single most annoying thing (sorry). Lots of people surf the web while watching TV or listening to winamp (like I do 100% of the time). When your page appears I hear both your music and mine and the mix is not nice!!!

Music does take a while to download as well. I would recommend removing it.

You know I would offer more suggestions as to what code you could remove and play around with in your html. However I believe you are using a WYSIWYG editor and if you mess around too much with the code manually your software might become confused. The music is one thing I'd do if I were you though. Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran

 

[RISTMO]

I agree about the music. I personally like the music, but it doesn't go well with what I had playing. I have a suggestion. Why don't add a link to turn the music on or off?

http://www.sonify.org/tutorials/beatnik/intermediate/on_off.html

Also, there is a way to make the page seem like it loads faster. Move the <script src=&quot;music.js&quot;></script> to the end of the file, &quot;right&quot; before the </body> tag. That way, the page will load, and the music will be the last thing to load, after the user sees the page.

Rick