2 additional themes added

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Having spent the last week and a half on the road, I was punished by having to use dial-up Evil or Very Mad

. I suffered painfully as my pages loaded over a 50.6 connection with all the images. I feel for any of you that still use dial-up - truly I do. I have added 2 themes that may help. Let me know. I will be sprucing the ExtraLite up a little, but you won't be plagued by having to load all those images!

registered · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:11 am

I wouldnt have thought 40kb of images would have taken too long on 56k. Confused

Always a good idea to have some modem friendly themes though.

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:13 am

There's like 80 of them on the home page and the flash banner hung bout 80% of the time and just never finished loading. I ended up killing the page.

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:23 am

I guess all the other stuff soon mounts up. News icons, banners and all. The theme itself only carries 40kb of images so on its own its fast on 56k.

Client Joined: Apr 10, 2004 Posts: 649 Location: UK

At last! Well done Raven.

Where I am I can only connect at between 26 and 28k and some sites just wont load for me, so I give up.

We wont get faster connections here til our phone providers lay more cables in about a years time, so we're stuck with slow loading pages.

It's a living nightmare when I have to update my site. lol

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:30 pm

Muffin, did this really help alot or just a little?

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:35 pm

Getting to the point where us dialup users are going to have to pay premiums to access no chrome websites lol!

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:32 am

Raven the Xtralite is faster and the fiapple is a little faster.

I'm going with fiapple as it's more familiar with the links, I couldnt see the link to My Account in Xtralite, but maybe that was me being dim.

Thanks Raven ((((hugs))))

It should help a lot, because it's terrible on some sites waiting for the pages to load, you could go get a weeks shopping in town and they still wouldn't be loaded when you got back rofl

lol @ Six