ben_travis Posted May 9, 2005 Report Share Posted May 9, 2005 right guys, im new to this webdesign malarky.... i have made my pages in photoshop, and sliced them up into lots of small slices...... then exported through dreamweaver to make hotlinks.... now i was speaking to tart, he seems to think having larger slices will load quicker.... could someone shed some light on this for me please, its totally confusing, and would like quicker load times. many thanks ben the site is HULL-TRIALS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted May 9, 2005 Report Share Posted May 9, 2005 Er, photoshop used to design a site is all well and good if its a small site. Not every page, and pages which are bigger then 1024x768. All that could easily be achieved in simple HTML. Smaller or larger slices make no difference at all, as at the end, your still loading the same size image, just in chunks. Smaller slices will give the effect of faster loading times, but will in actual fact load the exact same. My advice to you is learn HTML, or learn that photoshop is a Image Manipulation program, not a program to design a fully blown website. A banner here, a header there, but not a full on, full screen website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaXsteri Posted May 10, 2005 Report Share Posted May 10, 2005 (edited) At uni we were told to use the Photoshop/ImageReady/Dreamweaver method to create sites. However just using ImageReady to export html and then adding links in Dreamweaver will cause every page to be loaded from scratch. If you have a site logo on each page, and five pages for example. Then you will have five different copies of the same image, each of which will be loaded individually slowing down everything and wasting space. You need to either export from ImageReady as images only and set up tables in Dreamweaver, or export from ImageReady as html and edit all the images to point to the same location so you only have one copy of each image. Does this help? Edit: Your website is super slow. Did you change the compression for each slice? If not then that is one of your problems. Edited May 10, 2005 by MaXsteri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The enchanted broomstick Posted May 10, 2005 Report Share Posted May 10, 2005 definitely take the advice from these guys, they have it spot on accurate. Another problem you are going to come across is that you wont get ranked on search engines, basically search engines work on the content and the amount of people that visit the site. The "robots" cant read images and thats entirely what your site is made out of but its not images, its an image. Usually people would get around this by adding a description to the image that pops up when the mouse is held over an image for a few seconds. Seeing as you only have one image you can only have one description meaning that you aren't going to get good rankings on a search engine at all. You want to make a website with real HTML text included, robots will read this and give you the rankings along with more viewers to the site. You can try such things as yahoo sitebuilder, available free from yahoo its a brilliant starter program if you don't know html and the templates are quite nice, they are also easily transferable into dreamweaver :S stu (Y) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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