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tonyt · Last edited by tonyt on Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:25 pm; edited 1 time in total

Nuke

I see that quite a few members are having trouble getting the home page to build and stabilize. Can I suggest you take a look at your home page structure.
The problem seems to be caused by the fact that it's a very big page. The text alone to describe the layout is 178k, without any images or anything else. There's a lot of script on the page too and whatever is producing the pages for the site is not very good. It has bits that are (redundantly) repeated in the page which makes it an even bigger download and because it's built on an older style website technology it's all laid out in tables which, although simple to design, means the browser has a huge amount of layout work to do. Most of the images on the page don't tell the browser their size until they have been downloaded, which means every time the browser gets an image, it must repeat the gargantuan task of layout all over again.. and again.. and again.

Maybe you should move away from using PHPNuke, but I would suggest at least reducing the size of the homepage.

Please treat the above as constructive not criticism - I love the site.

johnsandywhite

Loury777

Hi Nuke things were working great until a few days ago, so i don't think it's our pc's now it's a bit hit or miss as to whether MHF loads or not. today it failed to load three times yet an hour later no problem. don't know why!!

tonyt

johnsandywhite I did say "maybe....." and I did make another suggestion.

What ideas do you have to make the site work better?

badger

same here on 2 different machines, (one on broadband)

MOTORHOMER

I was on the site earlier and posting a reply but then couldnt actually post it. Two hours later ok.

Motorhomer

johnsandywhite