Web Development
First impressions are often the truest, but how fast is the first judgement? Barely a twentieth of a second when it comes to viewing a webpage, according to the BBC.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/82232/websites-judged-in-milliseconds.html
by faradhi
This sort of thing should support more web masters scripting for more than just IE. However, Execs will read this and want a redesign that includes stuff that only IE is capable of. And then the webmaster will protest, get overruled, and script for IE only. Then that same exec will be introduced to some other browser, go to the website, get an error, and then demand that the website look properly with said browser. The the webmaster will remind the exec of the previous conversation, be told to redesign the look again. Later the another exec will find the article and .....
Not that I am jaded or anything but I am glad I am not a webmaster any longer.
but then Marketing came up with a flash presentation that takes four seconds to download on broadband.
Nice to see this, I've always been a big believer in simple uncluttered and understated home pages.
When I'm browsing, if first page hasn't rendered in under three seconds, it's stop and then back to google.
Can you remember those idiots who gave you a 500k flash presentation on dial up and no way to skip it until it had finished downloading and playing.
Stop
Back
add must+have+brains to google search string.
by jaqui
a "Web Designer" local to here, had a 5 mb jpeg imagemap as first page.
and his webserver was on a 36.6 dialup connection.
I couldn't beleive it so I actually timed the front page loading....
10 minutes!!!!!!!!
and this guy was suppoed to be a professional web designer!!!!!!
I sent him a really nasty email about useless web designers that do stupid crap like use huge image files and map them for the front page of a site.
the whole company disappeared fairly quickly after that.
by faradhi
I refused to use flash. Administration wanted it because they had seen other colleges use it. I just plainly told them that they either drop flash or outsource the site. I do not know flash and have no interest learning it. They dropped it.
I hate flash.
by dfirefire
When I started to 'design' web pages, a friend gave me the golden advice to make my sites as fast as possible, and I did. That was when broadband was just around the corner.
Nowadays, I still have that rule in the back of my head when creating web applications. Although not always easy because of the variable processing time on the server, the pages themselves are designed to render as quickly as possible. I make extensive use of XHTML and CSS to reduce redundant code, and make sure that my pages validate well and are W3C-compliant. Images are always resampled to 96 or 72 dpi, and intro's are banned. Most flash intro's can be exported as aniGIF, which renders faster and avoids the nasty installation.
Also, the content and possibilities should be clear at first glance, but I guess that is already understood by now...
Are there any more speed tips?
by jaqui
actually never needs to be above 72 for web work.
gif may have small sizes, but the palletted colours do cost in overall quality.. [ 8 bit palletted is not as nice to look at as 24 bit rgb ] and a jpg with 72 dpi isn't much larger.
it's not just in speed for the site, it's overall layout. a blazingly fast site with bad layout is a bad site. one item that has dropped by the wayside with these dynamic sites is one page = one screen of data. this is a pity, since scrolling was never meant to be an integral part of the web. [ check most linux documentation, [ user manuals for applications ] the dockbook layout used limits each page to one screen, with the intent of zero scrolling required ]
but to me if a web page takes longer than five seconds to come up and or it isn't clear where you want to next, the only place you go is out of the site.
Seen lots of developers particularly ones who do db content, do an all singing all dancing super duper page on their top of the range machine on a their internal LAN and it turn positively glacial outside in the real world.
by jaqui
this comment to them, make them happier with you:
survey results, from 250 thousand Graphics Artists, 95% of whome have high speed connections and excellent computers: 80% of respondents leave a site as soon as they see flash used.
50% leave as soon as they see javascript.
if they use both on a site, that is up to 90% of potential customers that run away because of website design.
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