i have lots of domains .. i am submitting to those tgps i dont know the income/bandwidth potential from a free host now. but perhaps i am too careful ...
btw i a have put a domain on that deepfree account, but they messed something up, and not replying to mails i send them.
SIG TOO BIG! Maximum 120x60 button and no more than 3 text lines of DEFAULT SIZE and COLOR. Unless your sig is for a GFY top banner sponsor, then you may use a 624x80 instead of a 120x60.
Page load times are pretty slow. We tend to forget that the majority of households are still on dial-up.
You can speed things up by getting rid of some of the thumbs. If you haven't sold a surfer by the time they see 15-16 thumbs adding more probally isn't going to help. It will just increase the number of visitor who get board waiting for the page to load and hit the back button.
I would recomend removing thumbs 17 through 20. These thumbs are the most hardcore ones. Removing them will not only make the page load faster but increase the tease factor.
Also your thumbs themselves are a bit large filesize wise. Ranging 6K to 11K. You should be able to reduce them down 4-7K without reducing image quality.
Even as it is right now it'll probally do well given enough traffic.
Becareful trying to use a starter virtual host. If I remeber right their starter plan only includes 25 gigs of bandwidth and charges $1 per gig on overages.
With the size of that gallery you will most likely burn 200-250K per unique vistor. You'll burn through that 25 gigs pretty fast.
Just keep an eye on your stats and be ready to upgrade to a larger plan on short notice.
Originally posted by Gel The design looks pretty good.
Page load times are pretty slow. We tend to forget that the majority of households are still on dial-up.
You can speed things up by getting rid of some of the thumbs. If you haven't sold a surfer by the time they see 15-16 thumbs adding more probally isn't going to help. It will just increase the number of visitor who get board waiting for the page to load and hit the back button.
I would recomend removing thumbs 17 through 20. These thumbs are the most hardcore ones. Removing them will not only make the page load faster but increase the tease factor.
Also your thumbs themselves are a bit large filesize wise. Ranging 6K to 11K. You should be able to reduce them down 4-7K without reducing image quality.
Even as it is right now it'll probally do well given enough traffic.
Becareful trying to use a starter virtual host. If I remeber right their starter plan only includes 25 gigs of bandwidth and charges $1 per gig on overages.
With the size of that gallery you will most likely burn 200-250K per unique vistor. You'll burn through that 25 gigs pretty fast.
Just keep an eye on your stats and be ready to upgrade to a larger plan on short notice.
Good Luck
thanks ! pretty valuable help you gave me !
do you think i should take thumbs size smaller too? (not kb but pixels)
whats the best program to save quality jpegs with good filesize? (currently i ue photoshop's web export with quality=60)
Don't forget to optimize for search engines. Add keyword and description meta tags, and use your image ALT tags to match up with your meta tag key words.
Originally posted by fusionx Don't forget to optimize for search engines. Add keyword and description meta tags, and use your image ALT tags to match up with your meta tag key words.
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