viewing in Netscape [Archive] - Actinic Community

TraceyHand

03-Dec-2003, 12:13 PM

Hey all!
Just been browsing the new site in Netscape and there's a bit of a glitch (not necessarily Actinic related, more likely my html!)
I have the following entered in my product description

!!<Buy or Hire this Pram 
<a href="javascript:ShowPopUp('grades.htm',640,500);">*A GRADE* What's this?</a>>!!
Twin hoods removable hoods
Rear seat suitable from birth with 3 seat positions including lie flat( see extended info for pictures)
2 position front seat suitable for older child
Adjustable footrest
Front lockable swivel wheels and shopping basket under
RAINCOVER INCLUDED
Navy/White Check

URL is http://www.chariotsonhire.co.uk/acatalog/2_in_1_Prams.html

Now, it views fine in IE, with the "A Grade, what's this" bit in red and the rest of the text in black (see attachment) but, when I view in Nestacep (6.2 I think) it views the WHOLE text as red.

Is this normal? Is it something I can "cure" with html?

TIA, Tracey

NormanRouxel

03-Dec-2003, 12:46 PM

That second "<font...>" has a space between the "size" and the "=". Try removing that and see if it fixes it.

Norman

ps. Your page seemed a bit slow to load and when I looked at the graphics the file sizes were pretty big.

The image "completesm.jpeg" is 83Kb. When I re-saved that image in Paint Shop Pro with a PSP compression of 25 it reduced to 18Kb. A major saving in page load time with only a slight reduction in visual quality.

I'd ( whenever you have the time :) )try to reduce the all these images as anything over 25K is probably too slow to load.

If you have Photoshop it has a "Save for Web" feature that displays an image at several compression factors and lets you choose which you can live with.

NormanRouxel

03-Dec-2003, 12:57 PM

Re those big image filesizes. The freeware image processor / display app. Irfanview allows you to batch convert many files in one go. See http://www.irfanview.com/ for the download if you don't already have it.

When I tried it on your 83K image it reduced it to 16.5K - I used a compression factor of 80. It will convert the images into a new folder so you wouldn't lose your originals.

Norman

TraceyHand

03-Dec-2003, 07:16 PM

Originally posted by NormanRouxel
That second "<font...>" has a space between the "size" and the "=". Try removing that and see if it fixes it.

Norman

Thanks, Norman but removing that space didn't help.
Am looking into the images thing too.
All the photos on site are being replaced shortly anyway so I'll make sure to minimise file sizes when the site photos are added.

Ah....just sorted the red text thing.

I moved the </a> from before the 2 tags to afterwards (where I assume it shold have been really) and it works fine now!!

I lived and learned today! :D
Thanks again! Tracey