Major re-design, Isis AV site

[richh]

Hi,

I've just put live a major update to an Antenna site that has been live since 2008. When it was first designed, using Version 2.7, it was a white background with blue text, and not so many images. I didn't manage to transfer over a page from the old site, but you could see a 'cached' page via a Google search I suppose. The new site was all done with Antenna 4.5.

The URL is: www.isisav.co.uk

It would have been great to ask for a before & after comparison, but if anybody has any comments, or spots any issues or dead links, please do shout out!

Thanks for any suggestions or thoughts. The original site was only a few pages to start with, but as the site grew to about 25 pages, the re-branding exercise took quite a long time. I do expect to be doing quite a lot of tweaking & editing over the next few weeks, so at this stage my main interest is if there are any glaring errors or if it is not working on any specfic browser or platform. I've tested on IE and Firefox, but even there, there are quite a few different versions.

Thanks for your comments,

Happy New Year,

Rich

Oxford, UK

[Frank]

The site looks great! very sleek...
I did notice that some of the images have not been optimized case in point:
www.isisav.co.uk/images/ntb_screenshot_1.jpg
www.isisav.co.uk/images/ntb_screenshot_2.jpg
www.isisav.co.uk/images/savant%20iphone%20control.png
if you turn the last image iphone into a jpg with the same black background... you'd be saving tons of kb'sGot to tell you I think the site is sleek sleek sleek!

Frank

just took a longer look...loving it! Some of the images you didn't crop them to size leaving it up to the browser to size.

case in point:
www.isisav.co.uk/images/ntb_screenshot_2.jpg
the actual size of the image is: 753X502..
the image that somes on this page is 253X175 so the browsers has to size it...this makes for long download and slower viewing experience. Plus the image would look better if sized within Antenna using PhotoRazorSX or a third part image software like Photoshop or any other.

Food for thought, Its a great site.. optimize some of the images and watch it speed up.

I also got a scroll bar on www.isisav.co.uk/av_installation.htm blue title...
I'm on Windows: IE9

[richh]

Hi Frank,

Thanks for the comments & suggestions. I'll have to investigate the image sizing and so on, which I think I'll have to read up about!

The way that PhotoRazor is now built into Antenna is really good, but I've been a bit puzzled by re-sizing an image that way, and then not seeing any difference on the actual web page...

Thanks for your time, will have a closer look at the areas you've highlighted.

Cheers,

Rich

[Frank]

That's exactly the beauty of it... you'll go from a 150 kb down to 35-45 kb without sacrificing the look in fact it will look better because the browser doesn't have to do any work. Antenna Razor has a prebuilt optimizer that takes out the guess work.. It works pretty well.
Give it a try.

Frank

[Frank]

ricch... here's a sample so you can see what's at stake here...
www.threefooter.com/iphone/

Hope it helps,

Frank

[richh]

Wow, that's a huge difference if file size, with little discernible difference in image quality!

Thanks so much for taking the time & trouble to create the web link for me to see, hugely appreciated!

Best wishes,

Rich

Oxford, UK

[Frank]

My pleasure hope it helps...
It will most definetly speed up the load time.
The site is really sharp!

Frank

a simple way to resize the image is to see the size you have it..
in properties, say 100x150 double click it to bring the image up in razor and make sure the image is at that exact dimension. if it is nothing to do..if it isn't resize to the exact dimension.