Web site ... OK or not

Just visitied it with latest Firefox. Half loaded and then appeared to freeze, but when I started Task Manager, it proceeded to fully load and seems OK now.
 
Lakesailor said:
Firefox 1.5????
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I thought that might raise an eyebrow ...

It works a treat (except for the site in question ...), so why change ?
Change for change's sake - that seems to be the modern mantra.
Oh yes - I also run it under Win98 ...

Apart from (you know where ...) I've never had a problem. Stable as a rock. No commercial anti-virus 'precautions' installed (although I've one or two measures of my own design in place) and I've NEVER had a virus.

And yes, all but 2 of my outboards are Seagulls, and I drive a 20 year-old car. Happy as a Sambo (am I allowed to say that ?).
 
"Works" in chrome under android 2.3.6 with a wvga screen but your top image is way too wide, which is why the text is being cut off. Making the image less wide such that with margins it's within 800 px wide might be a thought (or at least make it such that all the text is within that distance).

Biggest problem is that 1.5MB animated gif on the home page. I can imagine people might be using the site from a non-3g phone connection on their boat to get contact or supplier info (ie just an important phone number), in which case you want to keep the download size of the opening page to a minimum. Currently it might take several minutes to load with a so-so connection.

On the font re-size issue, yes those buttons look clunky but you're providing for a user base who possibly aren't on the web designers' industry awards panel. These buttons don't impact the user's ability to set font size in their browser (so no down side for the informed folks with visual impairment) but might prove helpful for those with minor visual impairment who aren't seasoned web users and don't know that you *can* set browser font sizes. I suspect many retired yachting folk might fit in that category. So I say keep 'em if you like them (although they overlap the banner image when you increase the font size to 40 point :-)
 
To update.

The banner file size has been made smaller,as suggested.. that loads in a flash

However the page still freezes... freezes the whole computer ... for a couple of minutes. Initially the mouse pointer will move but if I click a mouse button a few times there is faint bleep from the computer ( internal bleeper not the sound system) then the mouse pointer is frozen as well.

Previous image on the front page was a scrolling slide show which was an even bigger file.

I'm not sure exactly when the trouble started. I think after the image was changed and a new Burgee image put in the top banner.

I don't think the trouble lies with the slide show ...... The same thing happens if I go straight to one of the other pages. Some just have a small amount of text with no pictures.

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Hi Vic, the banner gif may now be smaller but it is still wider than my screen. Thats not a biggie in itself but I would expect a website thats been coded right to recognise the current display size and set up vertical/horizontal sliders s needed. The SeaWych site does not set up a horizontal slider in recognition of a too narrow display - that may not be whats causing your symptom but it certainly aint right.

I see the same thing on both FireFox 12 and IE8, IE8 took a long time to load something called 'swslow.gif'
 
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Hung temporarily in IE9 the first time, second time gave a javascript error.

The header graphic should be used as a background with the text on top as text - smaller overhead graphically , clearer text and better for search engines.

- W
 
VicS said:
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I don't think the trouble lies with the slide show ...... The same thing happens if I go straight to one of the other pages. Some just have a small amount of text with no pictures.

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There is something odd about the slideshow Vic. No matter what picture is being displayed, if you try to save it back, you get swslow1.gif, which is 1.37mb
 
PaulGooch said:
There is something odd about the slideshow Vic. No matter what picture is being displayed, if you try to save it back, you get swslow1.gif, which is 1.37mb
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And is the entire slide show. You'd not expect that ??


I've been told to Google for "chrome slow to load" I have a look
 
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Surprised at all the problems - I thought Joomla was better than that - or is it just a dodgy template?

I think everyone knows my recommendation for a CMS for a small amateur site like this by now . . .

- W
 
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