From: Robyn Wright Newsgroups: alt.html,alt.html.writers Subject: Web site questions Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 04:15:38 -0600 Organization: On occasion Lines: 29 Message-ID: <34B89BCA.F79D3C42@anet-stl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp128.anet-stl.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Path: ccw.ch!aetna.dolphins.ch!news.planetc.com!leto.ou.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!News.Vancouver.iSTAR.net!news.istar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-backup-east.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!207.15.12.13!dinar.varner.com!opus.anet-stl.com!not-for-mail 1. Whenever I am on my page, if I click through to one of my links, when I hit the back button on my browser (Netscape Communicator 4.04) I don't go back to the spot on my page I left from. Nor do I go back to the top of the page, I always end up at the beginning of the "Reference" section. Is this a problem I can fix? I would like people to be returned back to the place on the page they came from, or at least the top of the page. 2. Do you think I should add some "to the top" buttons somewhere on the page, if yes, any suggestions as to where they should be? I don't want the page to get overly cluttered. 3. I read somewhere that graphics will load faster if you specify a height and width. Is this true? If so, how do I know what measurements to put in there? Do I just put the same as the pixel size I used when making the graphic? 4. Also heard that I should have a width specified for all the tables on the page. Right now I just have it for the table on the right. If I need to include a measure for the one on the left how do I figure out what it should be. Ok, that's it for now. I am learning a lot from these newsgroups. You guys are great! Thanks in advance for you help. http://www.angelfire.com/mo/arrows/index.html Robyn Wright ###### From: Sherilyn Newsgroups: alt.html,alt.html.writers Subject: Re: Web site questions Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:39:43 -0500 Organization: http://home.earthlink.net/~sherilyn70 Lines: 51 Message-ID: <34B903DF.4BAF@earthlink.net> References: <34B89BCA.F79D3C42@anet-stl.com> Reply-To: sherilyn70@earthlink.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.27.73.78 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U) To: Robyn Wright Path: ccw.ch!aetna.dolphins.ch!news.planetc.com!leto.ou.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!mic.fibernet.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news2.chicago.iagnet.net!iagnet.net!nntp.earthlink.net!usenet Robyn Wright wrote: > > 1. Whenever I am on my page, if I click through to one of my links, > when I hit the back button on my browser (Netscape Communicator 4.04) I > don't go back to the spot on my page I left from. Nor do I go back to > the top of the page, I always end up at the beginning of the "Reference" > section. Is this a problem I can fix? I would like people to be > returned back to the place on the page they came from, or at least the > top of the page. That doesn't happen to me in NS3.0 > > 2. Do you think I should add some "to the top" buttons somewhere on the > page, if yes, any suggestions as to where they should be? I don't want > the page to get overly cluttered. > Anywhere you have internal links to take you down the page it would not be a bad idea to add back to the top links. Or you might consider using frames so that the index is always in sight. > 3. I read somewhere that graphics will load faster if you specify a > height and width. Is this true? If so, how do I know what measurements > to put in there? Do I just put the same as the pixel size I used when > making the graphic? > It keeps your page more consistent when it loads because everything has an asigned spot and the browswer doesn't have to keep readjusting the view when a new image is loaded. > 4. Also heard that I should have a width specified for all the tables > on the page. Right now I just have it for the table on the right. If I > need to include a measure for the one on the left how do I figure out > what it should be. I've never done that... don't kow if it really makes any difference. > > Ok, that's it for now. I am learning a lot from these newsgroups. You > guys are great! Thanks in advance for you help. > > http://www.angelfire.com/mo/arrows/index.html > > Robyn Wright Sherilyn -- I think I'm suffering from mood poisoning, it must be something I hate. ###### Path: ccw.ch!usenet From: Neil.Franklin.nospam@ccw.ch (remove .nospam) Newsgroups: alt.html,alt.html.writers Subject: Re: Web site questions Date: 12 Jan 1998 01:50:16 +0100 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: <34B89BCA.F79D3C42@anet-stl.com> X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Robyn Wright asked us: >1. Whenever I am on my page, if I click through to one of my links, >when I hit the back button on my browser (Netscape Communicator 4.04) I >don't go back to the spot on my page I left from. Nor do I go back to >the top of the page, I always end up at the beginning of the "Reference" >section. Is this a problem I can fix? I would like people to be >returned back to the place on the page they came from, or at least the >top of the page. This behaviour comes from your Browser, not your server/HTML. Anyone else looking at your pages will get the behaviour of their Browser, you can not influence that. Mine (NS 3.01Gold for X) returns to exact the section visible before entering. >2. Do you think I should add some "to the top" buttons somewhere on the >page, if yes, any suggestions as to where they should be? I don't want >the page to get overly cluttered. No, you shouldn't. It just causes more work for you, wastes disk space, net bandwidth, download time, etc. Every decent Browser has go top/bottom/previous-page buttons built in. If your reader wants such then they should get such a Browser. If they don't want it why do you bother them with it? >3. I read somewhere that graphics will load faster if you specify a >height and width. Is this true? If so, how do I know what measurements >to put in there? Do I just put the same as the pixel size I used when >making the graphic? Load takes same time, but all the HTML after the graphic can be displayed immediately as the size of the graphic is known. Yes, take the pixel size as when creating the graphic. See my home page for an example of graphics with width/height. >4. Also heard that I should have a width specified for all the tables >on the page. Right now I just have it for the table on the right. If I >need to include a measure for the one on the left how do I figure out >what it should be. More important is that you give the width (in pixels or % of page) for all the columns. That allows immediate displaying of the begin of the table while still loading the rest of it. >Ok, that's it for now. I am learning a lot from these newsgroups. You >guys are great! Thanks in advance for you help. We like to help. It animates other to help us. Give and recieve. >Robyn Wright -- Neil.Franklin.nospam@ccw.ch (remove .nospam), http://www.ccw.ch/Neil.Franklin/ for Geek Code, Papernet, Voicenet, PGP public key see http: If I go missing, its once again my newsfeed that has craped ###### From: toddc@NOSPAM.net-link.net (Todd C, Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.html,alt.html.writers Subject: Re: Web site questions Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 15:54:11 GMT Organization: NetLink Systems, LLC. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <34bf821e.742662686@nntp.net-link.net> References: <34B89BCA.F79D3C42@anet-stl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: walnut.net-link.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Path: ccw.ch!aetna.dolphins.ch!news.planetc.com!atl-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!205.217.6.4!nntp.net-link.net!not-for-mail On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 21:52:33 +0000, red snapper wrote: >In article <34B89BCA.F79D3C42@anet-stl.com>, Robyn Wright stl.com> writes >> >>3. I read somewhere that graphics will load faster if you specify a >>height and width. Is this true? If so, how do I know what measurements >>to put in there? Do I just put the same as the pixel size I used when >>making the graphic? >> >The graphic won't load any faster but the page containing it/them will >be laid out first with all the text and formatting correct while the >images continue to download. Well, actually, the graphic does load faster because the browser doesn't have to figure out the height and width...these operations can get intensive and slow the browser by a considerable amount. >Yes - the image size you enter should be the pixel dimensions of the >image. If it looks too big/small resize it using a graphic pacjake >rather than by letting the browser re-size it for you [resizing upwards >allways looks awful, I agree.