Web Design Competition #1

WOW, i managed to get the pictures compressed and i am now within the limits.

well done, well when you have your finished product, post the URL ok

i looked at the page and when you change the window size in ff the refrsh back etc.. get messed up you may want to take a look at that

on my entery i dont know if i will get it done working to much but i will see what i can wipe up

I though i had to send the code to you?

I'll do both

And i will be checking out the problems with the refresh etc..

You need to first post it at your own domain, then later I'll contact you via PM and give you details of what to do next

Coderex,

Also, please note that you need to create a subdirectory called "images" and place your image files there. (When I looked at your link earlier, they are currently not in an images directory) You'll need to adjust your image path accordingly in your code. (It is probably best to use relative links so Musik will not have to edit your final code).

According to the rules for this competition:


Normally it's not necessary to do that, however, I believe it's mostly just to make it more convenient for Musik to put up the voting links if all the images are in just one place.

Ok,

Thanks ANTO/TW i will do that just now!

Could you please edit the original post to mention that Javascript is allowed? Some participants might not read the whole thread, and they wouldn't know this.

Also, is this 200 KB filesize limit equal to 200000 bytes or is it 204800 bytes? I presently assume 204800 bytes because 1024 bytes per kilobyte is more standard.

I believe I can safely we'll allow some small amount of leeway on that (but only a small leeway given the "technical" point you noted). It really shouldn't be hard to do, though. My entry with 16 graphics not counting the offsite validation images weighs in at roughly 66KB . I'm rather certain that the reason Rose implimented a limit is to encourage our members to practice some skills to create pages that do have a fast page load and are not bogged down by "heavy" images.

200kb for one single page is not so hard to obtain. It just means you need to learn how to adjust image filesizes accordingly and not bloat html code.

Heh. I'm still used to thinking that anything over 15 kb is just madness; hearing 200 as the limit is kind of funny.

Well, that's something I never quite understood with Firefox. I'm looking at page info and my entry in general is 6.56KB -- I've always assumed that was text. Not counting the offsite validation media I have 15 thumbnails, all weighing in at approx 2KB each (so we'll call that roughly 30 KB) and I already know my "Owl" gif is 30KB (I didn't know what I was doing back then to optimize it and just copied it.).. That's how I come up with my 66KB rough estimate.

Exactly! I think it's plenty of size to play with!