Computer Company

[arizonapcrepair]

I run a freelance computer company at http://www.metrophoenixcomputers.com/

I used Joomla 1.5 that was included in cPanel's Fantastico, and used the default JA_Purity template. Now obviously, this is not the way to go, but sadly, I do not have the skills required, such as the ability to make graphics, or code a template myself. Funds are extremely limited, being freelance, so please, put in your suggestions on what I should do.

I did make the graphics that you see all over the site myself, but they are just either a) Simply illustrator, or b) from Google mashed up together to form those graphics.

I even made a custom 404 error page, so check that out too by just typing in gibberish after my URL.

 

[tittat]

Your layout and design looks really nice. But why you want that welcome.jpg image too large? Its size is 384KB.Cant it be a little more lighter in size?
Good Luck

 

[farscapeone]

Yes tittat is right, that image is to "heavy" and it's basically text.

And why is it 2667px × 2000px in size and then scaled to 640px × 480px :nuts: Why don't you resize that image to 640px × 480px yourself in whatever image editor you use?

 

[arizonapcrepair]

Yes tittat is right, that image is to "heavy" and it's basically text.

And why is it 2667px × 2000px in size and then scaled to 640px × 480px :nuts: Why don't you resize that image to 640px × 480px yourself in whatever image editor you use?

If you look around the whole site, I decided to base a theme off of these 640 x 480 images. I am using the Mac version of Adobe Illustrator, and I am quite new to it. I do not know why I settled for 640x480 however.

I have a 20" iMac, and that is what I used to design the images on, so the site is really fit for a widescreen, but I haven't been able to test it on a non-widescreen just yet.

 

[marasm]

It's not about widescreen monitors. Just open the file with any image editor and save it as 640x480 image. Then use the new file instead of the one you use now. It will make your page loading much much faster. I've tried to add rescaled image as an attachment to this post - it it works you can use the attached image.

And if you want to make it even faster, you should put all your scripts:
<script src="/main/media/system/js/mootools.js" type="text/javascript" />
<script src="/main/media/system/js/caption.js" type="text/javascript" />
<script src="http://www.metrophoenixcomputers.com/main/templates/ja_purity/js/ja.script.js" type="text/javascript" language="javascript" />
<script src="http://www.metrophoenixcomputers.com/main/templates/ja_purity/js/ja.rightcol.js" type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
<script src="http://www.metrophoenixcomputers.com/main/templates/ja_purity/js/ja.cssmenu.js" type="text/javascript" language="javascript">

just before </body> closing tag. If you want to know why read here: http://code.google.com/intl/pl/speed/page-speed/docs/rtt.html#PutStylesBeforeScripts

And one more question - why do you put a link with valid xhtml on the very bottom right of the page when your site is not valid xhtml ?

Anyway, those are technical issues. The graphical side of your site is pretty cool. Gratz

Cheers,
Maras

 

[warrenware]

Perhaps instead of using images for the text (to the right of the cactus & flag), you should use HTML text objects. You can get the same layout by inserting these in tables.

 

[marasm]

Perhaps instead of using images for the text (to the right of the cactus & flag), you should use HTML text objects. You can get the same layout by inserting these in tables.

I do really discourage using tables for the layout - tables should be used for displaying tabular data only!

Wanna know more about it? Read here http://www.chromaticsites.com/blog/13-reasons-why-css-is-superior-to-tables-in-website-design/

Cheers,
Maras