Topic: www.sc2armory.com
Totally customized most of the pages, still under construction... thoughts?
Home page custom built php to pull from forum =P
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Totally customized most of the pages, still under construction... thoughts?
Home page custom built php to pull from forum =P
Very nice, better than many in this forum I have seen.
"We were at The Armory highly suggest you create an account and engage in all the discussions related to Starcraft II. Help this community grow. Thank you."
Change We were to just We
Looks sweet.
Slow !!
Why? 750k (!) of images:
1 395289 CSS IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … ground.jpg
1 78933 CSS IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … ontent.jpg
1 64392 CSS IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … header.jpg
1 18294 CSS IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … ain_bg.jpg
1 17537 CSS IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … eft_bg.jpg
1 16973 CSS IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … in_top.jpg
1 16360 CSS IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … ght_bg.jpg
1 16101 CSS IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … ft_top.jpg
1 15460 CSS IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … ht_top.jpg
1 14999 CSS IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … in_bot.jpg
1 14836 CSS IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … p_base.jpg
1 14397 CSS IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … p_base.jpg
1 14114 CSS IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … ft_bot.jpg
1 13669 CSS IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … ht_bot.jpg
1 13000 SCRIPT http://include.reinvigorate.net/re_.js
1 5431 CSS http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/style.css
1 3933 SCRIPT http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js
1 3642 HTML http://www.sc2armory.com
1 3297 IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … e_news.gif
1 1716 IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … _login.gif
1 1402 IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … le_ads.gif
2 726 CSS IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … ivider.gif
1 685 CSS IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … er_alt.gif
1 361 CSS IMG http://www.sc2armory.com/themes/terran/ … bullet.gif
24 ^ 745547* Total (^unique objects)
Suggest applying a bit more compression to all your JPG's, esp background.jpg. Should be able to get it <100k, at least.
Run it through:
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
a few times to tune it a bit better.
Not everyone will be accessing your site over LAN bandwidth
looks very good... it load fast for me...
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@sirena
the css and images havent been cleaned up or anything :]
i just wanted to get the basic layout done first
and the background image... even compressed i cudnt get it below 300k.... its 2000x1000
i really dig how the center image scrolls but the outer image stays put. small touches like that make for impressive websites.
Im reworking the css and stuff on the home page. Having problems with the flash tho... it seems it wont render the text the correct size.
Wow, your forum looks very nice!
@sirena
the css and images havent been cleaned up or anything :]
i just wanted to get the basic layout done firstand the background image... even compressed i cudnt get it below 300k.... its 2000x1000
I suspect you don't quite realise what JPG compression involves.
That background is in fact PERFECT for optimization because of its relatively uniform palette. The actual size of the image matters little.
For example, applying 65% JPEG compression to the image brings the filesize down to about 98kb, and by applying 50% compression I could bring it down to 65kb, with little discernable visual difference between the optimized versions and the original.
Similar reductions could be achieved for many of the other images you use, I think.
It makes your site faster and saves you bandwidth to boot. Users win and you win too
@sirena - with what program? i tried photoshop but havent gotten it down much... shud try fireworks
@lie - most pages dont work besides forum
Hi milesj.
You don't need big expensive programs like Photoshop or Fireworks to do simple stuff like JPG optimization!!!!.
If you use Windows, something like the wonderful freeware image viewer Irfanview - download it from http://www.irfanview.net - will do fine.
Irfanview does a great job saving/compressing JPG's, and it lets you specify lots of options in the process too. Just open your original JPG file, then go >File > Save As> then select JPG, then make sure the 'Show Options' dialog is ticked, and then in the Options dialog box next to 'Save quality' slide the compression scale down to something like 50% or 60%.
I just used IrfanView then to knock your background image down to 65kb @ 50% compression. Did a great job. I'd suggest you give it a go. It also does batch conversions quite well.
milesj, awesome design.
I use Xnview for image manipulation, does a great job of optimizing JPG's.
Ill give them a try, thanks.
Yeah i must agree with the others, the design is pretty good, although the actual forum design could be more simple.
Updated and changed a bit.
Very nice website. May I ask how you did the RSS? I've been looking for a similar solution.
He's now using phpbb2 !!
that's too bad.
really baaaad - I was shocked.
But phpBB2 will be replaced by phpBB3.
Haha I only switched due to the cash/lottery/store mods. Sorry guys, I still love punbb though =P
It's not worth to do it now.
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