Guest Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 My page is loading kind of slow (http://www.pm-fl.com/catalog). I am assuming it is because of the file sizes of the pictures. Can someone suggest a good method to get the pages to load faster? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEDIAZONE Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 My page is loading kind of slow (http://www.pm-fl.com/catalog). I am assuming it is because of the file sizes of the pictures. Can someone suggest a good method to get the pages to load faster? Thanks! OUCH! Yep is certainly is those images, they are rather large, what software do u have in regards to image manipulaton? Many Thanks Simon Your Media Zone Remember to ALWAYS BACKUP Life is like box of chocs - You never know what your gonna get! Do you feel lucky punk? Well do ya! P-A-R-T WHY COS I GOTTA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Photoshop, Paint, Microsoft Imaging, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEDIAZONE Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Photoshop, Paint, Microsoft Imaging, etc. You can reduce the size in all of them, i use photoshop to do mine Many Thanks Simon Your Media Zone Remember to ALWAYS BACKUP Life is like box of chocs - You never know what your gonna get! Do you feel lucky punk? Well do ya! P-A-R-T WHY COS I GOTTA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 I was thinking there would be a faster way to do this than manually editing each graphic. Especially the images that are in the catalog. I thought I had read about this the other day, but now I can't find the post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d4funky1 Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 you need to get macromedia fireworks mx. you can simply do a batch process on the folder where all your images are stored and choose which process you want to run. I had the same problem and over 5000 images to manipulate!!! worked a treat. Then I use 'ON THE FLY' which automatically creates a thumbnail of the image which in turn reduces the loading time, whilst keeping the pop-up image at it's largest. take a look here http://www.fancydressretail.co.uk/catalog and click on any of the products and then on the enlarge image link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 What is 'ON THE FLY?' Sounds like just what I need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d4funky1 Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 just to add and show you an example of it: Your product 'BMR Tubular rear control arms 05+ Mustang W/Poly bushings' The image is a file size of 52.56 kB wether you are looking at the product description page or the pop-up or even just the link http://www.precisionporting.com/catalog/im...CAMustang05.jpg On my site the product: http://www.fancydressretail.co.uk/catalog/...roducts_id=7929 Has a home page image size of 7.34 kB a product description page size of 20.61 kB and a pop-up image size of 17.91 kB As you can see the images are not distorted like some of yours and the loading time is quick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d4funky1 Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...,all/search,OTF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 I have never used the contributions before (I'm new at this stuff - if you couldn't tell) lol. Anyway, how do you use the contributions? I just downloaded one that adds a specials module to the index.php file so that our specials will show on the main page. In the installation file, it says to do the following - Copy the /catalog/includes/module/product_specials.php to your site. Run SQL in your phpMyAdmin or similar database tool. What does rund SQL in you phpMyAdmin mean? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as I see that there are several contributions that I need to include in my website to do some of the things that I want to do. Thanks for your help! Mandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 I just read someone else's post about how to run an SQL file in phpMyAdmin and I followed their directions and got my Specials_Module to work. Now all I have to do is tweak the formatting in the stylesheet so that it looks right. I will try the ON THE FLY contrib that you suggest now. Thanks for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Quick question about ON THE FLY... Which file set do I want to use? Would it be the one entitled "'On the Fly' Auto Thumbnailer v 1.5" by Nate posted on Dec 15 2005. Just looks a little confusing as to which one is the correct one to use. Thanks for the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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