My New Website *LINK*

Re: My New Website

R.J.Whelan

>Chico ... very nice.

Now I can say " ... I knew Chico when he was just a baby woodworker, and look where he is now."

The student has definitely surpassed the teacher (me, in at least a small way).

Good job - I'm proud of you .... rj

Re: My New Website

Jim in Burlington Ontario

>Loads up a little slow did you think about buying a used server? Otherwise the layout is really nice.

Re: My New Website

Brent Smith

>The site loaded up plenty fast enough for me,and the furniture you're displaying is really inspirational.Congratulations on the new site.

Brent

Re: My New Website

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>Hello Chico,

Very nice furniture!

I am seeing a lot of stair-casing on the diagonals of the photos. I looked at the image specs, and it does not seem as if the photos are overly compressed - perhaps it is the method your helpers used to re-size/crop the photos? Maybe one of the bit-heads around here can offer an explanation.

Re: HTML

paul womack

>http://www.sakmanfinewoodworks.com/

The data for the thumbnail photographs should be sub sampled - they're currently scalled in the browser. That's what giving slow first page loading.

http://www.sakmanfinewoodworks.com/gallery-tables.htm

The text should be applied in the HTML (not onto the main image).

In this page

http://www.sakmanfinewoodworks.com/crafts4.jpg

the entire page has been composited as an image.

Content looks good though. Feel free to ignore my HTML advice if you wish.

BugBear

Picture staircasing

Dan Donaldson

>I looked at the pictures that have a lot of staircasing artifacts and see what the problem is. The pictures are being resized in the html. For instance, the real picture on the server might be 500X400 or something, but when displayed, it was resized to 150X something. When you do this, you get the bad artifacts that you see in some of your pictures. If you need a smaller picture, you need to make one in your photo editing software and use that. I use picture sizes in the code that I use, but it is the actual size of the picture and is used only to get the page to load faster. The bottom line is don't resize pictures in the html if you want good quality.

PS

Dan Donaldson

>You can see this in the bubingahall picture on the front page of your site. Look at the version on the front page and then the original.

I don't know nuthin bout HTML

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>But, Your site look nice to me. Good job!

Thanks RJ...

HC Sakman

>....I still am a teenager RJ. I need lots more growing up to do.

Chico...

Thanks Don

HC Sakman

>Excuse my ignorance... What's "stair-casing"?

Picture breaking up into small squares???

Thx,

Chico...

Thanks Paul,

HC Sakman

>This site is done strictly with Frontpage since nobody here has any clue about HTML...

Chico...

Thanks Scott.

HC Sakman

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Re: Thanks Don

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>Don't feel ignorant - I just know the name of the problem, not what to do about it! I am ten years out of date with HTML, etc.

It is a term used to indicate that a diagonal line on a video display (tv, computer, etc.) has a pronounced zig-zag look to it, instead of appearing smooth. It is often associated with low resolution/file-size. Your photos should have enough so that the edges should seem smooth.

(I see that the folks down-thread have the answer)

The squares thing is pixellation, btw.

Re: Thanks Paul,

paul womack

>This site is done strictly with Frontpage since nobody here has any clue about HTML...

Including Microsoft, apparently. :-)

BugBear