need some advice! 1

[Bignewbie]

hello all!
would anyone care to see this site

http://www.a2zphilippines.net

its a new site wherein i'm a member of its developing team. It seems to me loading a bit too slow. its uses a secondary window for its control panel (all the graphics in that control panel are done in flash using PCs). I hope anyone would be able to help make it load a LOT faster than present. It really is a big problem to me since most of its target audience here in my country uses a slow internet connection. Any help would certainly be greatly appreciated!

thanks


jeff

 

[davdesign]

hi jeff

not a thing from my side I'm afraid....just blackness.

dave dave@davdesign.co.uk

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[Bignewbie]

davdesign,

the blackness you may have seen is the bgcolor of the primary window. This site uses a secondary window where u may see its content. I know its kinda confusing but when you enter or view our site a secondary window pops out then aligns itself to the upper left side of you screen. If u closed the secondary window thinking that that window is used for ads, then next time pls dont close the pop up window. we dont have ads in our site, well not yet anyway coz its still undergoing major changes. anyway thanks for trying but pls try again.

thanks


Bignewbie

 

[oldnewbie]

Same thing on the other side of the Atlantic, Canada.
Black screen, no secondary windows opening, nothin'!

PS: How big a nwewbie are you?

B-) "Who's that guy with the shades... What's he trying to prove!”

 

[davdesign]

ok

Sussed the problem on my side I think, maybe.

Anyway, when I type

http://www.a2zphilippines.net/8x6frameall.asp

I'm getting some form of control panel with a black window at the centre, displaying MoF-esque graphics.

Is this the pop-up which resizes itself, and when it resizes are the browser toolbars automatically disabled?

dave dave@davdesign.co.uk

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[Bignewbie]

Dave

also i forgot to tell you! initially our secondary window pops out only when you are using internet explorer and witha screen resolution of 800 by 600. sori for the late info. Hope you could offer some advice on making this site load faster.


thanks

Bignewbie

http://www.a2zphilippines.net

 

[davdesign]

nope, it definitely seems to be a problem with your redirection asp.

Anyway, I thought I had a problem because of my two monitors being hooked up, that ain't the case. However, because of what I do, I have one monitor set up to display 1024*768 and the other to 800*600 so that I can test my pages before publishing on both resolutions. If your 8x6 asp was set to publish on 800*600 (and I assume by the filename that you are) I'm getting a scrollbar in the centre window, which I'm guessing you'd want to avoid in the opening animation at least. If the page was set for 1024*768 then it's totally out of sync, all over the place. And makes me ask the quetsion: have you thought about percentage tables and 100%*100% flash publishing? It might be the difference between using detection and not.

Slap me on the back of the head if I've got it all wrong with your site, but it's what I see over here.

Despite that, the graphics are cool and I look forward to visting when it's up and running full-power.

dave

what about you old? did you get the same? dave@davdesign.co.uk

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[davdesign]

ok

got it to work so ignore the above

dave dave@davdesign.co.uk

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[Bignewbie]

dav and old,


thanks for the effort guys i really appreciate it! one thing though, dave, i used percentage in all of my tables but i didn't know % works in flash? how can i set my movie size that way? or should i declare that in dreamweaver? (i find both macromedia softwares very useful)

If i could set flash in percentage then i wouldn't need the redirector.asp all it does is set get the current screen size.


thanks and hope to hear from both of u and others soon!


Bignewbie

p.s.
old i am kinda big! for my age anyway

 

[davdesign]

To set the flash movie size by percentage just go to File>Publish_Settings and click on the HTML tab. Then change Dimensions to 'percentage' and select 100%*100%, remembering in Dreamweaver to set all cell/table values to '0' and scroll to "no"(ie: MARGINWIDTH="0" MARGINHEIGHT="0" LEFTMARGIN="0" RIGHTMARGIN="0" TOPMARGIN="0" BOTTOMMARGIN="0" scroll="no" etc) as discussed in a previous thread this week.

On the subject of file-size, are you using BMP's, JPG's, what? If your not using JPG's then I suggest you batch-process your graphics to JPG format before importing them to your movie, and get rid of any that you ain't using.

'Actions' are also critical when it comes to file size. If you're using repeated actions, say on your buttons, then you should utilise the 'call' action to minimize ram and processor throughput on the user side.

Anyway, I'm off to bed for the night (2.17am GMT). Hope this helps, even if just a little.

dave dave@davdesign.co.uk

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[davdesign]

ps: a preloader would offset large file size a little, at least as far as attention span is considered from a users viewpoint.

g'night all

dave dave@davdesign.co.uk

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