The New Foreigner - Japan

[Eelco]

The Foreigner - Japan has gotten a makeover. I hope y'all think it's an improvement

I've also added some new features like polls and comments, and we've switched forums. The new one should work better

 

[Davey]

KAKOIIII

I like the site a lott, looks realy good, nice articles in it.. good redesign...

just 1 thing... am i they only one that need to wait this long till the page turns up.... Eelco... 80kb is a bit heavy dont you think....? ( for an opening page.)

for the rest, really good!!

 

[Eelco]

Thanks dutch baka ,

How long do you have to wait to see the content, and what type of connection are you using?

The html page isn't really the problem when it comes to long loading times, it's often the images and scripts that keep you waiting. An 80kB page should, also on slow connections, completely load within 4-5 seconds.

Unfortunately Internet Explorer waits for all images to be loaded before displaying a table, Firefox and Netscape will display the html first and load the images later.

The news feed from NewsOnJapan.com is slowing our opening page down a lot as well because it has to access a different server, but I think it's worth it. The same goes for the JBanner, but since that is in a separate table it won't slow down the main content. Other than that, the pages have been stripped of all excess JavaScript.

Often the best way to speed up your pages is splitting the layout into different tables. Unfortunately I can't split our design up any further.

 

[soulrevolver9]

Very nice! I enjoyed your site. Good variety, easy to manuever, and I didn't experience any delays, everything popped up nice and quickly. The photo essays are great.

 

[slider]

wow looks really good thanks for the heads up