RadicalRoosterGC
New Member
Hi guys,
Im pretty new both to web design and the forums.
So far i have only made a couple of very basic sites using dreamweaver (and i mean very basic - header, content, footer and a few links to the left)
I recently decided to try putting together a gaming community, we have a few game servers and 30 members so all is going well .. but we were missing a website.
I decided to try designing a site from scratch, rather than use one of those somewhat fixed templates that free clan site services privide.
I started by buying some web space and installing phpbb so members could communicate, i decided not to mess to much with the phpbb templates for now, as the amount of style sheets was a little daunting to say the least :icon_tongue_smilie:
So, more to the point, im trying to create a basic layout for the site, it could be going a lot worse but I have run into a few problems ..
Main problem being the way i have created the banner .. I must have done it the most inefficient way possible and loading time is an issue.
I made the banner in photoshop and included several link buttons, i then used the slice tool to slice out the links and areas where i wanted a reote rollover. The problem that I didnt account for is load time, im pretty sure the problem is the amount of http requests taking place when the page loads, as there are so many seperate images.
All of the images are saved in png24 format, i did try png8 and gif but file size wasnt a lot different.
Reading around i found posts about "image maps" but some people said this method wasnt the best way to tackle the issue.
If someone could take a look at what we have so far (most of the links dont link anywhere) and suggest a way to improve loading time (preferably without having to start again) it would be much appreciated.
Example page:
| RRGC | Gaming News | Home |
Cheers,
Tom
Im pretty new both to web design and the forums.
So far i have only made a couple of very basic sites using dreamweaver (and i mean very basic - header, content, footer and a few links to the left)
I recently decided to try putting together a gaming community, we have a few game servers and 30 members so all is going well .. but we were missing a website.
I decided to try designing a site from scratch, rather than use one of those somewhat fixed templates that free clan site services privide.
I started by buying some web space and installing phpbb so members could communicate, i decided not to mess to much with the phpbb templates for now, as the amount of style sheets was a little daunting to say the least :icon_tongue_smilie:
So, more to the point, im trying to create a basic layout for the site, it could be going a lot worse but I have run into a few problems ..
Main problem being the way i have created the banner .. I must have done it the most inefficient way possible and loading time is an issue.
I made the banner in photoshop and included several link buttons, i then used the slice tool to slice out the links and areas where i wanted a reote rollover. The problem that I didnt account for is load time, im pretty sure the problem is the amount of http requests taking place when the page loads, as there are so many seperate images.
All of the images are saved in png24 format, i did try png8 and gif but file size wasnt a lot different.
Reading around i found posts about "image maps" but some people said this method wasnt the best way to tackle the issue.
If someone could take a look at what we have so far (most of the links dont link anywhere) and suggest a way to improve loading time (preferably without having to start again) it would be much appreciated.
Example page:
| RRGC | Gaming News | Home |
Cheers,
Tom