2 additional themes added

Raven · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 8:45 am

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!

GanjaUK · 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.

Raven · 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.

GanjaUK · 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.

Muffin · 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

Raven · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:30 pm

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

sixonetonoffun · 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!

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

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