Rootschat Free Webspace Problems

[Zeb]

Or a monochrome monitor

[Chris in 1066Land]

Hi Keith

Thanks for that vote of confidence, glad that it looks OK to you - my computer also runs xp professional.

As per yet, no changes have been made to it - Johnathan is having a look to see if he can spot what the main problems are.

The side panel picture does not for some reason show on any of the pages (it is a tree growing outof a book) so will have to rethink that strategy

The main picture page I agree is a bit jumpy, or was at first on my computer, but I thought it had settled down on mine (IBM Thinkcentre with 3gb Pentium 4 processor and 1 gb memory) - but wouldnt know how or where to change the pictures (jpg's) to make them load and scroll smoother.

Reggie

Unfortunately, I very much like the Green on Green, it looks both clean and smart; maybe I will have to find a darker shade for the text and perhaps a lighter shade for the background.

Zeb
I thought Monochrome monitors went out with the DoDo

Chris in 1066

[Reggie]

Hi Keith

Thanks for that vote of confidence, glad that it looks OK to you - my computer also runs xp professional.

As per yet, no changes have been made to it - Johnathan is having a look to see if he can spot what the main problems are.

The side panel picture does not for some reason show on any of the pages (it is a tree growing outof a book) so will have to rethink that strategy

The main picture page I agree is a bit jumpy, or was at first on my computer, but I thought it had settled down on mine (IBM Thinkcentre with 3gb Pentium 4 processor and 1 gb memory) - but wouldnt know how or where to change the pictures (jpg's) to make them load and scroll smoother.

Reggie

Unfortunately, I very much like the Green on Green, it looks both clean and smart; maybe I will have to find a darker shade for the text and perhaps a lighter shade for the background.

Zeb
I thought Monochrome monitors went out with the DoDo

Chris in 1066

Chris

I can definately see the tree jumping out of the book on my computer.  I run Xp and Mozilla - no trouble.  I also ran IE and there was no difference. Another minor item is the connection to email.  It doesn't link or, have you done that on purpose?

I take your point about the green text.  I suppose I shouldn't criticise too much because my website is in brown (http://tyndale.rootschat.net/).  Your site is very good and a lot of hard work has gone into it.

Cheers

Reg

[Zeb]

When saving images out for use in web sites rule of thumb is quality setting 7 (middle if your package saves using a slider) gives best quality over file size.  If your images has large areas of contrast (like black lettering on a white background) then look at the saved version and see if there is too much visible "hatching" around levels of detail - if there is save out at setting 8 and look again.

Problems with JPEG is that its a lossy format - that is bits are thrown away and if you save as quality 12 (max) the file will be huge.  You could always use thumbnails of the images and make them open the full image in a new window and maybe wrap the text around them.

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<a href="fullpicture.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="thumbnail.jpg" /></a>
Is there a tutorial on image formats and what to use, where and how?  If not, I'll write one.

[Berlin-Bob]

There is a topic here about

TIP: Adding images (and 'thumbnails') to web-sites
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,47486.0.html

but it is not a proper tutorial, so, if you want to add something, Zeb, please do !

Bob