My Site Acts Strange in Firefox
My web site does something strange when I access it using Mozilla Firefox. The tables take a few seconds to "assemble". It's sort of interesting to watch, but it does slow things down a little.
I don't know anyone in my vicinity who uses Firefox, so I'm asking people on this board to see how it looks.
I'm at:
Many thanks in advance!
Busy posted this at 01:27 — 18th November 2004.
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Your site isn't to bad on firefox (and dialup) - seen way worse
Your layout is one big table with little nested tables inside it, break these down and it will load faster. break your code into 3 sections
header
content
footer
You've also got a few iframes that don't help in load time as well.
You've also got some bad habits going on in your code, don't assign a height to a table or td cell, you have ' ALT' but no value, should be alt="" (if has no value), also when you have things like COLSPAN="23" and COLSPAN="16" it's a sure sign your tables are to complex (or it's a typo) which makes the browser work.
You've also got things like :
while these items are not displayed on the page they should be placed before the (kept inside the set)
there is also the search.freefind form between tags which looks to have no purpose
Break your tables up into the sections, validate your code (wouldn't do it until after) and you should have your site loading faster and smoother.
rtroxel posted this at 01:40 — 18th November 2004.
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Again, many thanks. I'll get to work.
TaylorAtCTS posted this at 02:14 — 25th November 2004.
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I just want to let you know, you have iframes on your website..i'm sure you know this. There is a big problem with iframes, search engines hate them. The pages that contain the information in the iframe can sometimes be indexed seperatly and vistors end up on a page with some content and no links. There are more problems like links within iframes arent indexed sometimes, some browsers dont support them. They are generally something to steer away from.
If possible I would get rid of the iframes.
Your website looks fine in firfox to me, my res is 1900x1200
rtroxel posted this at 18:55 — 28th November 2004.
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What would be a good substitute? Tables? I've heard that tables within tables slows the download. (Obviously, I'm a novice at this and any help would be appreciated )
TaylorAtCTS posted this at 03:38 — 1st December 2004.
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Actually I don;t belive they would slow it down much at all. iframes should take about the same time.
If tables arent your thing try CSS
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