One of my favorite things about the Rivendell website are the pictures. Every picture on the site always reminds me that I should be riding my bike. I say hell with fast loading. Some things are best when slowed down.
On Jan 26, 1:51 pm, Dave Rivbike <d...@rivbike.com> wrote: > Yes, the slideshow. It makes the homepage heavier than it has to be. > Yet it's one of the most loved features of our site, has been for > years. > The images are downsized to a reasonable level, but you still have to > load them any time a new image is added or your cache is cleared. > For site speed, I'd love to have just one image there, the most recent > campout photo, but the slideshow is by far one of most popular > features on the site, so I'm kinda stuck there. > > I think if I removed that, I'd get more heat than if I leave it. > > One compromise is to simply have the most recent photo there on the > homepage with the featured products, and when you click on that image, > you redirect to the whole slideshow, or even better linked out to an > archive of ALL the previous homepage photos we've used in the past. > That way the site would load faster for everyone, and those that want > to watch pictures and simply click out to another page and can wait > for that to load. > Downside is you would get the same image each visit (till we change it > for a new one) instead of the random choice from the bunch. > > Interested what y'all have to say about this? > I lean towards faster faster faster, but it might be a hard sell since > most folks seem to like it. > > -Dave@riv > > On Jan 26, 6:48 am, tdusky <tdu...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > The new site is complex and loads slowly, it always has, I am on a > > fast mac with high speed internet. > > It sometimes hangs and I need to refresh to get it to load. > > That's the price of a cool looking site? > > Shouldn't be > > > Tom Duksy > > Huntington Woods MI > > > On Jan 26, 2:24 am, Joe Bernard <joerem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The home page isn't loading well on both computers (and a smartphone) I've > > > used today. I can still click on the categories, but there's no home page > > > pic or featured products. Is anyone else experiencing this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
