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rriverstone
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If they wrote a tutorial on how to waste bandwidth, I would get an "A" on the test.
My sound files weren't gzipped, for one thing.
For another, I've been making html art the HARD way! I just recently stumbled upon the "Byte Budget" school of art. The only comprehensible tutorial I've found is Tom's, and it ain't easy.
http://jawjahboy.com/scripts/byte-budget.shtml
Now, I've learned from DJMike that I could save even MORE bandwidth, should I ever be able to comprehend PHP. That won't be happening soon, though.
First, I need to wrap my head around the JavaScript thing. From what I understand, I can convert it later, once I learn how PHP works.
I know: it's only as hard as learning HTML was; it'll just take practice to learn the JavaScript grammar & punctuation.
I always suspected, as I was ccping table commands, or long URLs of images, over and over, that there MUST be an easier way. I was close to stumbling on it, myself, if I'd understood JavaScript better.
Questions: if, at some point, I get brave enough to dabble in PHP, can zbox support it and maybe help me out a little?
Are there other things I should have been doing, on my domain, to help myself with saving bandwidth?
Can I gzip other files, besides sound, such as images or maybe even large amounts of text? I do write a lot, you know.
When I move my blogs back over to zbox, how can I help myself not eat up massive amounts of bandwidth with them? Blogger is inaccessible to webtv now. People can't even post comments! They can read posts, only. I can't use the blogger file manager from my webtv, which is a pain in the BUTT, since most of the MSNTV blog stuff I find I get from newsgroups, while on webtv.
Sorry this is so long!
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Hi Rogi,
First off, file types other than music files will not be accessible to visitors if they are compressed. That will only work with music files. And that only for Webtv. Other ways to save banwdidth are simply to make your pages as simple as possible. The worst offender I constantly see on the web is failure to optimize images. Never ever use height and width attributes in your code to turn full size images into thumbnails. That only makes them look smaller, but the thumbnail will take the time of the full size image to load. Always create separate thumbnails for your images. Yes I can help with some php. However, Webtv's browser is beyond ancient. And php, css, xhtml, etc are advancing and modern browsers are advancing with them. And Webtv isn't. So sooner or later something you will want to do just won't work with Webtv and you will have to find another way to make it work. Just like with your blog now.
~;-)
Bert
If they wrote a tutorial on how to waste bandwidth, I would get an "A" on the test. My sound files weren't gzipped, for one thing. For another, I've been making html art the HARD way! I just recently stumbled upon the "Byte Budget" school of art. The only comprehensible tutorial I've found is Tom's, and it ain't easy. http://jawjahboy.com/scripts/byte-budget.shtmlNow, I've learned from DJMike that I could save even MORE bandwidth, should I ever be able to comprehend PHP. That won't be happening soon, though. First, I need to wrap my head around the JavaScript thing. From what I understand, I can convert it later, once I learn how PHP works. I know: it's only as hard as learning HTML was; it'll just take practice to learn the JavaScript grammar & punctuation. I always suspected, as I was ccping table commands, or long URLs of images, over and over, that there MUST be an easier way. I was close to stumbling on it, myself, if I'd understood JavaScript better. Questions: if, at some point, I get brave enough to dabble in PHP, can zbox support it and maybe help me out a little? Are there other things I should have been doing, on my domain, to help myself with saving bandwidth? Can I gzip other files, besides sound, such as images or maybe even large amounts of text? I do write a lot, you know. When I move my blogs back over to zbox, how can I help myself not eat up massive amounts of bandwidth with them? Blogger is inaccessible to webtv now. People can't even post comments! They can read posts, only. I can't use the blogger file manager from my webtv, which is a pain in the BUTT, since most of the MSNTV blog stuff I find I get from newsgroups, while on webtv. Sorry this is so long! |
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