Flash Site Design - My slow loading site...

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My slow loading site...

GAMBRKER

2006-11-05, 10:33 pm

I consider myself an intermediate flash designer. I've made many sites, but for
some reason this last one I have been working on crawls when it loads - even on
broadband. It took about 5 minutes on wireless.

There is some music which I changed from being embedded, to pulling from the
root folder. And I even bumbed my JPG image quality down a tad. Please check
out the site and let me know if you have any suggestions:

http://www.matrixmediaconcepts.com/rcc

Thanks in advance.
GAMBRKER

ggshow

2006-11-05, 10:33 pm

wow, what a xxxxxxxx slow site :smile;

still loading it...

ggshow

2006-11-05, 10:33 pm

-- the whole site in a single swf? Try create a swf for each page & load them
seperately.

-- stream the large music file? if you need to do so, start loading the music
only after all the content loaded.

-- I believe u create this flash from a computer with high screen resolution.
Try to test your site from a computer with lower screen resolution 800*600 etc,
it kills :smile;

++ nice design

raywiggins

2006-11-05, 10:33 pm

nice site, but I'd definately have each subsection load separately with
their own preloaders.

It probably would be a good idea to have a low bandwidth version of the
site.

GAMBRKER wrote:
> I consider myself an intermediate flash designer. I've made many sites, but for
> some reason this last one I have been working on crawls when it loads - even on
> broadband. It took about 5 minutes on wireless.
>
> There is some music which I changed from being embedded, to pulling from the
> root folder. And I even bumbed my JPG image quality down a tad. Please check
> out the site and let me know if you have any suggestions:
>
> http://www.matrixmediaconcepts.com/rcc
>
> Thanks in advance.
> GAMBRKER

GAMBRKER

2006-11-05, 10:33 pm

Yes, a single swf. I knew that creating swfs for each page would help, but was
avoiding making the big changes. When i started, I didn't realize how big the
site was going to get. Looks like I'll be creating 10 different swfs.

The music is streaming from the root folder, so no help from there. But as far
as loading the music after the movie is loaded, what kind of AS do I need for
that?

I know that the site is squeezed on an 800x600. It is made to accomodate what
I read was the average 1024x768. I take it that is what you meant by "it kills"
- correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks for the help,
GAMBRKER

and thanks for the "nice design"

ggshow

2006-11-05, 10:33 pm

try load mp3 using script instead of import them into your flash file,
your can get a sample script from Behaviors Panel,
In Flash 8,
- Select the keyframe where you want start loading your mp3,
- Windows - (Shift+F3) to open Behaviors Panel,
- Click on "Add Behavior" button,
- Select "Sound",
- Select "Load Streaming MP3 Sound",
- Fill in the url and name
- OK

* the URL can be full path of your mp3 file, or relative path from swf.
e.g.
- http://www.yourdomain.com/music/song1.mp3
- music/song1.mp3

after that you can see the bunch of script added to your keyframe.

Or if you have a preloader in your movie, you can use the script to load music
after your swf loading complete.

GAMBRKER

2006-11-05, 10:33 pm

Ok, I thought you were referring to a preloader that loads the movie, then
music. As mentioned before, I am already loading the mp3 from the root folder
just as you described. But I will try the very last part you mentioned. Thanks
for the help.

GAMBRKER