Hi All,
I have been using Fireworks for years and use it to design websites. I
usually design the site in FW, export to Dreamweaver and then publish the site.
The last site that I designed seems to be having problems loading. It's
located here: www.gbcob.com. I don't know if the hosting servers are just
especially slow or perhaps I've done something wrong. Does it have anything to
do with the size of the "slices"? I'd appreciate any input.

Thanks,

DTK

There's a DNS error at that address....

But the main thing is that you should not use Fireworks HTML in a production
site. Fireworks is a graphics program, not a Web page development tool, and the
HTML it produces is meant for mockups or prototypes. Once you have your design,
you should export your images from Fireworks and then build your page design,
templates, and site in Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver is a Web page
development tool, and a very good one.

You have the proper tools for the job, you should use the right ones for their
right purposes.

Sorry. I just moved the site to a temp location at:

http://www.kernwebworks.com/dkaff/GB...ish/index.html

Thanks for you input!

dkaff wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have been using Fireworks for years and use it to design websites. I
> usually design the site in FW, export to Dreamweaver and then publish the site.
> The last site that I designed seems to be having problems loading.

The page sizes are very large! Your pages are all over 400k. They
shouldn't be more than around 60k. They are also all images. That means
they won't be spidered by search engines, and the people who surf the
web with images turned off will see just blank pages. The content text
should all be HTML text instead of image text. If the navbar doesn't
contain image rollovers, it should be dome with HTML text as well.

You might find this tutorial helpful

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/firework...ts_pt1_02.html


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