Friday, October 29, 2004

After reading Digital Web Magazine's article 'Making News with Web standards' I thought I would share some stats too. I am currently rebuilding and re-branding a site due for launch on Monday, the recently acquired site was in need of an overhaul to remove the masses of tables and I thought this would also save the company on bandwidth rather than just sticking a new logo on the front page. So here are some figures:

Original site:
Total Size: 87417 bytes

HTML: 30077 bytes
Images: 53816 bytes

Total Images: 63
Total CSS imports: 1
56K: 17.62 seconds

New site: (including a new homepage with addition of banner ad and extra form fields and a magazine cover photo).

Total Size: 76852 bytes
HTML: 12926 bytes
Images: 51741 bytes
Javascript: 1665 bytes
Total Images: 50
Total Scripts: 1
Total CSS imports: 1
56K: 15.52 seconds

Obviously with the redesign of the front page with added images I expected a size increase but the html has been reduced from 30kb to 13kb which is pretty significant!

An overall reduction of 11Kb and valid xhtml 1.0 transitional. More details monday.

Jon 10:55 AM Permalink

Thursday, October 28, 2004

"Mr Bush broke his silence on the missing explosives - first reported on Monday - by repeating his charge that, if Mr Kerry had been president, Saddam Hussein would still control Iraq and have hundreds of thousands of tons of explosives to share with terrorists." - BBC News

That would be the hundreds of thousands of tons of explosives that they found alongside the hordes of Weapons of Mass Destuction I presume?

Jon 9:15 AM Permalink

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

John Peel has suffered a fatal heart attack while on holiday in Peru at the age of 65.

This is so sad he was probably the most liked Radio DJ in Radio 1 history and was even part of Radio 1 when it launched back in 1967. His eclectic music taste and freedom to play all types of music has launched many bands careers.

"He was a lifeline to hearing music I would never have heard otherwise. The service he provided was getting to hear music that you couldn't buy in Cardiff. He was a portal to a whole new world." - James Dean Bradfield, lead singer of the Manic Street Preachers.

Jon 8:57 AM Permalink

Tuesday, October 26, 2004

One for the diary, 9am Tuesday 23 November, Powerhouse Museum. Macromedia are presenting a free 2 hour seminar on Video, Training and Web Publishing also featuring a presentation on Captivate (formerly RoboDemo)

The details of how to register are in the link above.

Jon 8:51 AM Permalink

Thursday, October 21, 2004

I finally got round to ordering broadband for home, it has taken me far to long to come to the conclusion that dial up sucks too much to bear and when I saw this 1.5Mb ADSL plan from TPG I couldn't resist any longer, at AU$50/month I think it is by far the most reasonable deal I've seen so far.

James, get ready for some Sydney - England video chats!

Jon 3:09 PM Permalink

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Firefox is officially released next month and SpreadFireFox.com is running a campaign to get a full page ad in the New York Times, so far 1,170 people have pledged the $30 needed to get their name on the ad and they only need 2500 to secure enough cash. This will be the first-ever, full-page advertisement in a major daily newspaper created and paid for by the open source community.

Jon 9:33 AM Permalink

Monday, October 11, 2004

This is so cool.

Once I had done a complete cycle I tried pressing down arrow and zooming out instead which gives you a completely different view of the piece, very nice!

Jon 3:30 PM Permalink

Friday, October 01, 2004

Well, the homepage of the US site has anyway and I think it looks a lot cleaner and apart from a few little niggles (read http://9rules.com/whitespace/css_redesigns/yahoo_css_redesign.php for a great write up) I think it is a massive step forward and one which I think will solidify the case for CSS layouts when selling the idea to a client.

Jon 1:28 PM Permalink