Antweight Websites

Post by **petec** » Wed May 14, 2003 11:23 am

Dreamweaver is a fine tool, but it takes some learning before you can use it well - and you really need to learn HTML first. I'm not sure I would go as far as Emacs unless you like pressing lots of keys at once

But a decent (free) text editor will do the trick. Dreamweaver just makes it faster to put pages together - not better.

A few comments above about number of graphics etc. Its not really the number of graphics thats the issue, its the size and quality of them. For photos use JPG format and try to keep the file size to below 30k if possible. That might not seem much, but when using a modem, 30k can take 10 seconds or so and you then need 100k+ of free RAM in the computer to decompress and display the image.

For diagrams, etc use GIF format and keep the palette down to as small as possible - if you use 4 colours on the picture, why bother using an 8 colour palette! GIFs will be a bit bigger physically, but are less compressed so need less head room for the browser to render them.

Don't use animated GIFs if you don't need to - they use a lot of capacity.

TEAMDBR · Post by **TEAMDBR** » Wed May 14, 2003 7:06 pm

FrontPage isn't really that basic!
I use it all the time, I've made a lot of sites in it (www.teamdbr.co.uk and http://www.rangeeleven.com .. rangeeleven.com I didn't make, but I update it)...

But it seems to be the TopCities teplate?

Dreamweaver MX is very good though... I have very recently got Studio MX (Student Version... Bought!), that contains DreamWeaver MX and a couple of other MX things... After getting the demo....It is brilliant!

- Ben

Tomo · Post by **Tomo** » Thu May 15, 2003 9:27 am

Ben, my opinion of you just dropped several levels.

FrontPage generates incredibly inefficient HTML and often doesn't scale due to the use of hundreds of nested tables.
I hate the thing.

Still, whatever floats your boat.

Robotic Ants · Post by **Robotic Ants** » Thu May 15, 2003 3:29 pm

Front Page greatly increases the size of the pages it puts out by inserting all sorts of unnecessary coding. This makes your web design download much more slowly, resulting in frustration for the end user.

If you take a text-editor-created web design, load it into Microsoft Front Page and save it without even making any changes, the page will often increase to three or four times its original size.

TEAMDBR · Post by **TEAMDBR** » Thu May 15, 2003 4:55 pm

Opps, I wrote that message wrong... I "use to" use it all the time, it should of said... But I use DreamWeaver MX for almost every thing now (Apart from layouts, some times that are done in frontpage, as I think it is easier to use for tables etc)

- Ben

Jon_Gold · Post by **Jon_Gold** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 8:20 pm

Frontpage XP is good, but i prefer Dreamweaver MX. Get it...

phoniex · Post by **phoniex** » Wed Jun 18, 2003 10:42 pm

http://www.matrixlogin.cjb.net wondered what u thought it's my first one in ages

and first flash banner

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Sun Aug 10, 2003 10:21 pm

I've just made a web site for Electra. It's at http://windisch.co.uk/electra/

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Antidote · Post by **Antidote** » Mon Aug 11, 2003 2:24 pm

hah nice simon

here a sneak at my new site
should be ready by friday
http://www.cummins.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/home.html

Antidote · Post by **Antidote** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 2:55 pm

new site is up
http://www.c2robotics.co.uk
few things not finished but they will come with time