WinCustomize Bandwidth

September 10, 2002 7:13 PM from

I'm glad WinCustomize now has more bandwidth to play around with. I definitely appreciate having the site load in under a minute on a modem.

However, more can still be done. I understand why the site has a pretty interface seeing that this is a skinning site and all. However, there should be a stripped down version for regular modem users. My settings are optomized for speed and hidden icons, and it still has images and ultra-nested tables up the wazoo.

Using a three column table for layout and DIV tags for the content boxes will load much much faster than tables, even when the DIV tags are nested.

My $0.02

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Reply #1 September 10, 2002 7:45 PM from

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Although I have DSL, I totally agree with Jobeleca. It still takes a while for the site graphics to load on my end.

Reply #2 September 10, 2002 7:48 PM from

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Actually, DIV tags could be used for the columnar layout (see glish.com for examples). The downside to this would be sacrificing people visiting the site with version 4 and earlier browsers.

In any case... it takes much less time to render DIV tags than tables and the code is cleaner as well.

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