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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

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

@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

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.

LOVE your punBB integration...

the "gameplay" link doesn't work

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.

Ill give them a try, thanks.

Updated and changed a bit.

He's now using phpbb2 !!

really baaaad  - I was shocked.

Haha I only switched due to the cash/lottery/store mods. Sorry guys, I still love punbb though =P