Graphics

[Pats Podcast]

Hi everyone:

Plain & simple....

The Main PodShow Site (http://www.podshow.com/) is WAY too heavy on the graphics. THIS NEEDS TO BE IMPROVED.

I mean, I can BARELY navigate the site without my browser freezing up and/or bringing my system to its knees. THIS HAPPENS WHEN I USE IE, FIREFOX, SEAMONKEY, NETSCAPE **AND** OPERA (All latest versions).

I can navigate the Podsafe Music Network (http://music.podshow.com/) portion of the site with very few, if any, issues at all. But the Main PodShow site (http://www.podshow.com/) is a whole different ballgame altogether.

My specs. are as follows....AMD Duron 1 Ghz. CPU
Windows XP Home Edition (With Service Pack 2 & DirectX 9.0 installed)

512 MB RAM

ATI RADEON 9250 3D Graphics Card (With Latest Drivers Installed)
Other specs. available on request.

In any case, if I can barely manage to navigate the Main PodShow site (http://www.podshow.com/), then how can I expect my listeners and viewers to do the same? Why should I put them through the same kind of torture just to get to my show's page so they can subscribe??

You guys keep saying that content is king when it comes to building a good website. But having TOO MUCH content (Or content that's TOO GRAPHICAL can KILL a good website too.

Just something you guys at PodShow might wanna think about & take into consideration the next time you go to "upgrade" the site....

Cheers :D

[djtrashy]

I mean, I can BARELY navigate the site without my browser freezing up and/or bringing my system to its knees. THIS HAPPENS WHEN I USE IE, FIREFOX, SEAMONKEY, NETSCAPE **AND** OPERA (All latest versions).

I can navigate the Podsafe Music Network (http://music.podshow.com/) portion of the site with very few, if any, issues at all. But the Main PodShow site (http://www.podshow.com/) is a whole different ballgame altogether.

I've actually had theh opposite problem. While I agree that the main site is WAY overdone with graphics to the point of being very confusing, my browsers all crash on the MUSIC side of things. If I am searching through the most recent podsafe tunes, for example, I sometimes can't even finish previewing one page's worth before Firefox locks up. This has caused me to go through every single browser available on the OS X platform. I finally determined it wasn't a browser issue as all of them locked up. I am guessing a java/javascript issue.

[djtrashy]

update: It appears that upping my MacBook RAM to 2GB has helped - but still, should a web page suck up 320MB of RAM?

[WyethDigital]

Thanks for posting, any other problems you need us to know about?

Yeah! My shoulder hurts when I move my arm around like this :D

Eric

[WyethDigital]

How do you cyber punch someone?

I think you just did!

Eric

[evilproducer]

Yeah! My shoulder hurts when I move my arm around like this :D

Eric

Maybe you need to ease up on the Masturbating!

:twisted:

[Jim Smith]

He is the happiest ,be he King or peasant , who finds peace in his home.Funny that that post follows one about masturbation. Is that the peace in the home you're talking about?