At 11:24 PM 10/27/07 -0700, James Newton wrote:

>My #1 pet peve is slow loading web sites; I know I only have a few seconds
>to capture my audience. and of course anything with graphics is going to
>load slow, at least the first page.

Images are not what slows down the loading of a page.  It's javascript, 
java, css, flash movies, cascading menu buttons built from 320 individual 
clips, and embedded "content" that has to connect to adserver.com.   (My 
opinion, humble or not)

I still do things the old fashioned way.  I suspect that CSS is a macro-ish 
way of abbreviating the things you have to repeatedly put in the page 
itself, but no one ever explains it.  They always say, "If you put in this, 
like this, you get this..."

At 02:47 PM 10/30/07 +0000, Brendan Gillatt wrote:
>It's
>definitely worth the time learning CSS - it's invaluable. A big part of
>CSS is simply trying things out and seeing what works well.

Well, I see that some things will be the same if I ever start using it.  :-)

Barry


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