Hi Dave,
No apologies needed, always interested in any views or ideas. My website is
in need of a facelift (like me g), but some thought needs to go in to it
first.
I like the idea and must admit there is a few other things I like to do, but
my knowledge of HTML is limited and would require a lot of time to develop.
From your example below it would imagine that every country would require it
's own html file for each day. None of my files are generated automatically,
so at the moment that would take a lot of time just generating the
individual files. However, I do like the idea and if anyone has a format or
programme that may do something like that I would take it on board. I have
always thought that anyone new to my website probably thinks 'their' country
isn't in the list, as it's not obvious from first glance. The only other way
of reducing the file size is by having them purely as text files .txt, but
you have no control over fonts and attributes etc, I still have my European
data repeated as a text file further down the 1. Worldwide Reports page,
some people like this as they can copy and paste the text into some other
application without having all the html stuff. I guess the problem is, is
that there is a lot of data there. The overview page is also a great idea, I
first started to do this purely as a quality control exercise, it
immediately throws up any obvious errors in the code. I still need to refine
this a bit, as Greenland amongst the European section is a bit odd as has
been previously pointed out to me.
Oh well, another 20 years and I'll have more time on my hands, assuming I'm
still here, god forbid g
Any suggestions/pointers/help always welcome.
Thanks
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
Looking at the unshrunk and shrunk versions there isn't anything
further that you can remove, well you could remove some of the font
declarations at the top but you'd probably only save 100 bytes and out
of 300,000+ thats not significant. B-)
300K is rather large, you are talking over a minute to download on
dial up. I feel you need a rethink about how the data is
presented/arranged. An overview page with min max's etc and links to
each countries data which is stored on a seperate page? Each page
would be small and quick to load. You already have the basic workings
of a previous/home/next system to navigate within the country
listings. Also think about how the data is stored on server, I'd go
for a directory per day (or whatever the unit period of time is) with
standard filenames so all you have to do is point to that days
directory and everything "just works". So for example
/data/2004/05/31/norway.html is Norways data for 31st May 2004 etc.
Apologies to Grandma...
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Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail
"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
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On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:49:02 +0100, Keith (Southend) wrote:
I used it on myEuropean file for 31st May 2004, it shrunk it down by
9%.
Looking at the unshrunk and shrunk versions there isn't anything
further that you can remove, well you could remove some of the font
declarations at the top but you'd probably only save 100 bytes and out
of 300,000+ thats not significant. B-)
300K is rather large, you are talking over a minute to download on
dial up. I feel you need a rethink about how the data is
presented/arranged. An overview page with min max's etc and links to
each countries data which is stored on a seperate page? Each page
would be small and quick to load. You already have the basic workings
of a previous/home/next system to navigate within the country
listings. Also think about how the data is stored on server, I'd go
for a directory per day (or whatever the unit period of time is) with
standard filenames so all you have to do is point to that days
directory and everything "just works". So for example
/data/2004/05/31/norway.html is Norways data for 31st May 2004 etc.
Apologies to Grandma...
--
Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail