Working the bugs out of a new site

Hi everyone. I've taken over website-duties for my Newman center, and have redesigned the website (http://newman.truman.edu). There are a lot of basic things I still need to do to the site, such as making it acceptable for anyone viewing it. I realized after I was done that my resolution of 1280x1024 isn't the most common, so I need to get that done. Additionally, things go rather slowly when I or anyone (from here, at least) begins browsing, so I was wondering if there are some tips to streamline things a bit, or if that is a symptom of having designed things at 1280x1024. If anyone on these forums sees anything else that looks rather odd, let me know, along with a possible way to fix it. Thanks in advance for all of your help!

Two immediate things:

Stop using FrontPage 5 to produce your pages. It bloats your code with lots of stuff you can do without.

Do something about the size of your graphics. A 400 x 300px image that is 190k in size is just rediculous.

Then look at putting all your JavaScript and CSS into their own seperate files which you link into your pages.

Embrace css and divs and get rid of your table based layout.

Do you own a graphics program? If so you need to put all your photos in it one by one and reduce them in file size.

If you don't have a graphics program then there are places on line that will crunch your photos down to a better viewing size. Do a google search for "online image optimizer" and you'll get lots of options.

Once you get your images crunched (check your graphics too), your site will be fast!

Thanks for your advice, I'll certainly slim down the photos when I have time.

That being said, I'm not sure that the best advice for someone who is obviously using FrontPage for a reason is to learn 2 programming languages. Not that I'm new to programming, but I'm using FrontPage because I don't have a lot of time to devote to this website, and FrontPage is very easy from a design standpoint. Beyond which, when I leave, the next person to take over the website will have even less programming experience than me, so they will be using FrontPage. But thanks again for your help. The photo thing is an easy thing to do.

Frontpage will do nothing but bad things to you. That being said, good luck!

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Actually front page from a design standpoint is horriable. I recommend you go to www.adobe.com and download the trial of macromedia dreamweaver. You'll find the difference on the "design standpoint" to be alot better and very different. I promise you it will be better.