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Hello Jim,
Congratulations on the site launch. One very important suggestion, reduce the image sizes! Your home page is nearly 2mb in size.
http://www.diamondandgoldoverstocks.com/ (1960358 bytes)
Here's a helpful little tool. On a site like yours I'd try to keep the size below 200k to encourage shoppers to browse around and buy.
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/serv ... ze/wso.php
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Congratulations on the site launch. One very important suggestion, reduce the image sizes! Your home page is nearly 2mb in size.
http://www.diamondandgoldoverstocks.com/ (1960358 bytes)
Here's a helpful little tool. On a site like yours I'd try to keep the size below 200k to encourage shoppers to browse around and buy.
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/serv ... ze/wso.php
Thank you for choosing AbleCommerce!
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Thanks.
Yeah, The one thing I was/am struggling with is getting it to size proportionately with the screen size. It wasn't adjusting the margin if I went from 1280 to 1024 for instance. So I'm at the moment doing it that way.
I'm a windows desktop guy for the most part, so learning all the css etc under fire!
Yeah, The one thing I was/am struggling with is getting it to size proportionately with the screen size. It wasn't adjusting the margin if I went from 1280 to 1024 for instance. So I'm at the moment doing it that way.
I'm a windows desktop guy for the most part, so learning all the css etc under fire!
So is the blonde chick on the home page single??
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CZ or real??
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Mike,
Thanks for the tool. I've been using something similar, but it's nice to see options.
Regards,
rdv
Thanks for the tool. I've been using something similar, but it's nice to see options.
I've gotten my site down in the 380K range I think getting to the 200K size is very difficult given AC7's footprint. The biggest hitters are usually the images which we can work with, but the second heaviest is javascript. The javascript portion alone is over 100K and the CSS for the (almost) default theme weighs over 93K. Any chance that the javascript can go on a diet?Shopping Cart Admin wrote:On a site like yours I'd try to keep the size below 200k to encourage shoppers to browse around and buy.
Regards,
rdv
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You can get the page to center in the browser by tweaking the body in the css file -the important thing is the margin. Starting clockwise, the 0's are for top and bottom of page and the auto is for left and right.
body
{ width:900px;
padding: 0 10px 0 10px;
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
background:RGB(138,122,151);
font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}
body
{ width:900px;
padding: 0 10px 0 10px;
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
background:RGB(138,122,151);
font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}
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I think this is better (I can't remember where in the forum I found it). After struggling with centering for quite some time and playing with margins, I got a little smarter and found the right term or phrase to search for. This is what I use based on that "other" forum entry.
body
{
width:980px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding:0px;
}
(colors and images have been removed to simplify the post)
(actually it may be the same as what Judy has if I understood css better )
body
{
width:980px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding:0px;
}
(colors and images have been removed to simplify the post)
(actually it may be the same as what Judy has if I understood css better )
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