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[Cuk]

This is one of my webpages http://www.frogs-watch.co.uk/index.html where I
have posted pictures of frogs in my garden pond.

I would be interested in any comments, Ideas on how to improve the site.

[Mike Caine]

Some of the thumbnails ore over 1/4 MB in size which makes the site
very slow

[Cuk]

I am hoping that the increse in access speeds will improve faster than my
webpage writing skills). When time permits I will reduce the size of the
thums and then I could probaley improve the speed more again if I tided up
the pre loader. thanks for your input Mike

"Mike Caine" > wrote in message
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> Some of the thumbnails ore over 1/4 MB in size which makes the site
> very slow

[Cuk]

Its good to get some comments on the www.frogs-watch.co.uk webpage.

I have made the thumbs on the photo pages a lot smaller. Those pages are
loading much faster now. I will work on the preloading of the images which
should help also when the full size photos load.

"Mike Caine" > wrote in message
...
> Some of the thumbnails ore over 1/4 MB in size which makes the site
> very slow

[Jim Carlock]

Nice colors on your site. The guestbook page needs some work.
The blue text on the guestbook page isn't showing up well inside
of a FireFox browser.

The pages are loading up nice and quick in Tampa, FL. :-)

Very nice looking website. I don't think preloading images will
make a page load faster, it just makes the images present them-
selves all at once on the screen rather than one image at a time.

I have a question myself. I'm looking for perhaps a newsgroup
that deals with plants / botany / cover crops / gardening / et al.
If you know of any, pass it along and thanks!

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"Cuk" wrote:
Its good to get some comments on the www.frogs-watch.co.uk webpage.

I have made the thumbs on the photo pages a lot smaller. Those pages are
loading much faster now. I will work on the preloading of the images which
should help also when the full size photos load.

"Mike Caine" wrote:
> Some of the thumbnails ore over 1/4 MB in size which makes the site
> very slow

[Cuk]

Thanks for you comments



I will change the text on the guestbook page that's easy to do.


The intention with preloading images will be to make the actual photo pages
load faster. I can do this but I do not know if it will slow down the
thumbnail gallery pages.



As for plant newsgroups have you tried sic.bio.botany. my pond is a square,
apart from that I an trying to make it as natural as possible, saying that
the plants that I have in my pond except for the duck weed have come from
the garden centres or from friends, I would like to add some native plants
to my pond and then my WebPages but I have no idea at present what are
native or not.

[how]

"Jim Carlock" > wrote in message
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> snips>
> I have a question myself. I'm looking for perhaps a newsgroup
> that deals with plants / botany / cover crops / gardening / et al.
> If you know of any, pass it along and thanks!
>

Hi,
news:rec.gardens will work
L8R -_- how
no NEWS is good

[Jim Carlock]

Thanks for the links. I just learned that OE will scan all
newsgroup names and pick out all newsgroup names with
a certain word in them. Very nice.

I found a couple others as well. Most seem to be empty. I'll
post the most active ones in case anyone else is interested.

news://rec.gardens.edible
news://sci.bio.botany
news://rec.gardens

There seems to be a couple dedicated to individual states,
but they are empty currently (ie, no messages).

Thanks once again.

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[Jim Carlock]

A picture of my frog... No pond, but I've got a frog in a tree.
:-)

http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images/garden/frogie.gif

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