BEGi Website may be down this weekend
 

On December 14th thru 16th, the BEGi Web site may experience an interruption this weekend. We are moving the web site to a new server. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Stephanie

Unacceptable. I will use FM from now on.

tell the truth, you're taking it offline to re-do all the huge pictures!

Hopefully, by the end of the month I will have those photos fixed for you. ;)

We have to move hosting servers because our current one cannot handle the database stuff. E-mail might be a bit tricky for a day or two also.
Stephanie

(joking btw)

I know. :)
Stephanie

Yeah, my email not working still.:td:

Does WoW GOLD do e-penis enlargements as well... contact Hustler on this site, you may get some business.

Without the previous post, that was deleted, this does not make much sense.... :giggle:
Stephanie

http://www.bellengineering.net/produ...roducts_id=246

I quit loading this page to come post this. it's absurd. there are 35 photos that are the size of my thumbmail on the page but many of them are REALLY just under 200k each and if you right click and "view image" they pop up like this:

http://www.bellengineering.net/image...irbox_back.jpg

and what's WORSE, is when you click on it normally to view the picture, it's SMALLER!!!

http://www.bellengineering.net/image...irbox_back.jpg

WHY would you make us load like 5 megabytes of thumbnails for no reason? I know you can resize images. The proof is right here in my post.

Also frustrating that the thumbnails are so small, I can't even tell what they are to enlarge them. I have to do trial and error.

I'm not pulling punches today. this is terrible web design.

i agree, the thumbnails should be resized...loading time is insane.

the airbox is nice though

One user was also complaining on here that they couldn't access one of the PDF files on your website since the link code has an extra single quote after it. It's one of the install manuals. You might want to pass that on to the coder.

I think it's all of them actually. You can still view them by deleting the apostrophe in the navigation bar but that's pretty silly.

I can view the instriuctions and .pfd's just fine. Did something change?
Stephanie

You will have to blame me. We all know I am not the web guru, but this was my choice.
The thumbnails are sized at 100 x 71 @ 72 resolution.
The med size photos are 300 x 200 @ 72 resolution.

If you click on a thumbnail (after the page has finished loading), it will change the med size photo area to the photo you just clicked on.

If you click on the med size photo, it will load the larger photo. That is a large file, again my choice, because people like to see the detail. It is max - 900 x 600 @ 72 resolution.

If you click on the thumbnail before the page is finished loading, it will link it to the med photo on a new page. I did not realize this was happening until it was up. So I will see if i can change it.

I thought it worked well. But ya'll don't like the larger files?
Stephanie

I think the issue is that it appears the thumbnails are using the larger file size and the browser is being instructed to resize. You should make a separate resized file for the thumbnails, and then have the larger pictures load on demand.

There is a seperate file for the thumnails. They are 101 x 71. The browser may be re-sizing the icon/thumbnail smaller, but it should be loading the smaller image.
Stephanie

Looking at the source files....the thumbnails ARE loading the 100X71 sized pictures.

Example of thumbnails picture's source,
http://www.bellengineering.net/images/210index.JPG

Not syaing the sire doesn't have it's fair share of little problems, but all in all it's really not that bad.

no. they aren't. here's a few random lines.

take the first IMG line. it points to "images/products/246/icons/MT_RadPlate.jpg" right?

or which is this:

http://www.bellengineering.net/image...T_RadPlate.jpg

the photos in the ICONS directory are not icons. that page loads 6mb of data.

it doesn't matter how big the images appear. you can put height and width numbers in the IMG tag and make a 10mb photo 10x10 pixels and it's going to load the whole 10mb each time.

here is the s5 page:
http://www.bellengineering.net/produ...roducts_id=248

pick an icon under the image. right click on it. select "view image".

Gotcha, I was looking at other pages.

It does not surprise me that there are a few images off. I did fix the images sizes for that folder. Did it work?
Stephanie

Fixed that one, but now that I see what Y8s was talking about, just about every other page is the same way.

Steph, it's like that on ALL the miata turbo system pages.

You can see how slow it is loading the thumbnails. They should just appear being as small as they are, but you can see them loading nearly line by line. Pretty much 10mb just to load the page Y8s linked.

Yuck. Ok I will get it fixed today.
Stephanie

steph, i checked up on you. pics look to be fixed. nice work. and thank you.

Nice work, everything is loading much faster now. Thanks!

One other item: the "Turbo Comparisons" chart, reached by going through the Technical Button, then Turbo Comparisons, needs to be fixed. Every system is listed as 160 RWHP.

The prices appear to be correct, and change depending on which year range you select. But the power's the same for all of them.

I appreciate you letting me know there was a problem! We also fixed the instructions for FireFox. Are the loading now?
Stephanie

That is on my list to fix. Corky has yet to give me the accurate list. I will try to pry it out of him.
Stephanie