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Fig. 21
Dreamweaver estimates how long your site will take to load
over a 28.8-Kbps modem.
| Changing
the Estimate
You
can change this estimate in Dreamweaver's preferences.
- From
the Document window menu bar, select Edit > Preferences.
The Preferences dialog box will appear.
- In
the Category box at the left, choose Status Bar. The Status
Bar panel will move to the front (Figure 22).
- To
have Dreamweaver estimate download size at a modem speed
other than 28.8, select it from the Connectoin Speed drop-down
menu.
- Click
on OK to save the changes to the preferences and close the
Preferences dialog box.
Fig.
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Faster! Faster!
The single
biggest complaint about the Web is that most pages take forever to
load. I'm not being scientific here, but I'd bet that most site bloat
is due to one of two things:
- Designers
who never leave the comfort zone of the T3 and the 17-inch monitor.
- People
who never get feedback on their sites. This could be the guy who
just loads up his site and the public be damned! Or it could be
the lone Web designer at a big company who just gets everything
rubberstamped by the starry-eyed marketeers without review by
anyone who actually knows anything about the Web.
To
find out how long your site takes to load:
- First,
look at the figure in the status bar of the Document window (Figure 21).
No one will wait 30 seconds for a page to load, and some people
won't wait 10. Remember that this is only an estimate.
- Put
a beta version up on the Web somewhere hidden from view (see Creating
a Beta Site).
- Go
offsite, fire up a browser, and download the pages over a 28.8-Kbps
modem. Would you wait that long?
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