BigBudZZ.com - created in PROX10

just wanted to get some feedback on my New site.
www.BigBudZZ.com
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I Know...I Know..!
...yes it's a 4 20 based site......
wanted to get in on the ground floor of this movement.

it's what I call my "Dump" site for all the offbeat Humor that I come up with
"Home Grown Humor"
this is my 1st site using Xara (PROX10) & I have to admit ..
I LOVE XARA!!!!
it is so easy !!
with a littlke work you do most anything you want.
I will be adding new designs weekly.
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also I have started on another 2 sites
that will be more conservative & mainstream
one that will my personal Fine Arts items &
another for the Military/FireFighters , etc designs.
I ll post those when published.

thanks
LFRYARTGUY

I'm not sure all will appreciate your site, but DUDE, I like it. :)

I have a problem with the large smoke image background. It is 2.37MB and even on my very fast cable connection does not load immediately. Many of the heads have slower connections and older computers.

The image has exported as a PNG which is one of the reasons for the large file size. Optimize the image as JPEG and it will load a lot faster.

Thanks

yeah ...it's not gonna be popular subject matter to some.

I thought that backgrnd was a jpg..?
I'll get it fixed.

LFRYARTGUY

ok .. fixed the pasteboard background
should load quicker
also made a smaller cropped version for the MOBI
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question
how can I make the site load with a BLACK background
& then the background image load..?
where would I access the HTML in XARA to make happen ?
or could this be in the XARA document colors... how to change that ?

It still is taking a few seconds to load the background photo. The size is still 2.3MB and it is still showing as PNG.

Acorn may have a script to start off with a black background until the image loads. You add scripts to your document with a placeholder. A placeholder is a simple rectangle or any object that you can paste code or script into which inserts that code into your page's HTML. See Help > Placeholder Objects for more info.

Make sure your background image is not locked when you Optimize it to JPEG (Page & Layer Gallery > Unlock the Background layer, Optimize the image, then lock the layers again).

I downloaded your background image from your website, brought it into Xara, optimized the image to JPEG 192dpi and it fills the screen and the file size, while not petit, went from 2.52MB to 399K, a considerable saving in bandwidth.

Perfect apparel for the airport lounge. You will make friends at International immigration wearing those.

hmmm.
I had optimized this image in Photoshop to a jpg @ 172kb
then set as the background ..not sure why it's showing as a .png to you
I will work on it & see what I can do
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pauland
HA! .that's a good point

What's Photoshop? :)

You can optimize the image right in Web Designer.

Right click on the image and select Optimize Photo.

yeah got to break some old habits & use XARA photo tools more
think I fixed it..
I blurred it out alittle & reduced the original image size

Bingo. Much better. Loads instantly.

Not sure what you have done to the site now, but all I get is a subscribe page!

Same here. Maybe LFRYARTGUY is republishing the site? Or has the site gone up in smoke, gnar gnar gnar.

Okay, the site seems to be back up, but the background still appears very slow.

I'm not sure why we're fussing over a site promoting something that ruins many families.

I know recreational/medicinal use is widespread in some circles, but for everyone that benefits from the product there are those whose voyage into abuse.

We probably don't want a debate here or for TG to be promoting the subject.

Pauland...
"I'm not sure why we're fussing over a site promoting something that ruins many families."

so I'm sure you don't drink alcohol,,, or smoke cigarettes...?
BOTH are WAY more destructive to families.
so you don't believe I should show my hard work ?
I am posting my site just like everyone else here to get feedback about the Xara construction
really could care less what you think of the product.

really could care less what you think of the product.

Bad luck, you had the opinion anyway.

Personally, promoting something that's illegal in most places is not something I'm very keen on.

I don't think this thread is going to live long.

Geez. It's legal where the site is. It's legal as of a few days ago where I am. It's legal in a few more US states soon enough. If you cannot comment in that vein, don't comment.

Site loads quickly and displays well on my devices. Color is good for the subject/site even though I generally don't like "dark" colored sites. I think the thumbnails for the product images should be a bit larger, at least on my phone.

Geez. It's legal where the site is.

Geez. It's illegal where I am. I'll make the comment again.

I'm not sure why we're fussing over a site promoting something that ruins many families.

That's true, legal or not.

Pauland
so you DoNOT smoke cigarettes or drink any kind of Alcohol ?
... if so you are a hypocrite.

I don't believe that the content of this site (or any other site for that matter) is relevant to most of the questions asked about the use of Xara products.

Pauland
so you DoNOT smoke cigarettes or drink any kind of Alcohol ?
... if so you are a hypocrite.

I don't smoke. Several family members, including my father have died from smoking-related cancer. People on TG know my aversion to smoking very well.

Drinking. I hardly drink. I know several people who'se lives have been totally ruined by drinking. If drinking alcohol was banned, I wouldn't notice and be happy because I'd rather abstain than have people (and their families) lead wretched lives because of it.

Both smoking and drinking alcohol are legal in just about every non-islamic country worldwide.

Historically, Weed has been seen as a harmless recreational drug with some medicinal benefit. OK, but I'd not like to see it's use promoted by proxy on TG considering it is illegal in so many places and has the potential to be a gateway for a very sad existence for so many people and their families. Your site vibe is that weed is a fun thing but the reality can be very different. I'm not interesting in TG helping fuel candidates for the Jeremy Kyle show.

If I am a hypocrite, I'm barely a hypocrite.

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Originally Posted by pauland

Geez. It's legal where the site is.

Geez. It's illegal where I am. I'll make the comment again.

I'm not sure why we're fussing over a site promoting something that ruins many families.

That's true, legal or not.

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Then take this discussion to the Mod section and y'all debate it there. If it is decided by the Powers That Be this discussion over the site shouldn't be here, deal with it.

If it is decided that the thread should stand, remove all these posts that are not about the site and you deal with your sense of morality and legality.

If you really feel the morality/legality discussion is valid, move these off-topic posts to the lounge where it can be discussed outside of this proper thread about a site review.

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Originally Posted by pauland

...and has the potential to be a gateway for a very sad existence for so many people and their families. Your site vibe is that weed is a fun thing but the reality can be very different. I'm not interesting in TG helping fuel candidates for the Jeremy Kyle show.

If I am a hypocrite, I'm barely a hypocrite.

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The gateway thing is an old stereotype and has been disproved again and again.

Obsession and overuse of anything has the exact same harmful effects as does pot. I am not a pot smoker. I don't advocate pot smoking despite it being legal here now. In reality it is no different than alcohol. The main difference is countries figured out how to tax alcohol a long time ago. They are just now figuring out how to do so with pot.

We have Muslims that visit here and have occasionally posted. I have seen more than a few sites put up for review that would not be tolerated in in a Muslim country. Gonna have the sane discussion over those as well?

Still going, Mike?

I was all set to not post after #15, but you guys..

Just replying after your replies, Paul.

Bit pointless Mike.

Pauland
thanks for all the constructive comments about my XARA website.
I will address everything you have conveyed & hopefully
my site will be much better now.

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Originally Posted by pauland

Bit pointless Mike.

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Why? Cannot you also stop...'cause it's also a bit pointless, eh?

Tell ya what, go ahead and point out the pointlessness again. I'll be done with this one pointing out your posting to point out my pointlessness is also pointless.

yes, sorry.
never meant for this to get away from the original posting
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No worries.

I do like the site. I did mention the thumbnail issue on a phone. I think larger is needed on it. It's more difficult to select the thumbnail for a larger view of the product than it should be.

Tablet use the thumbnail size is fine, as is the desktop.

Mike

nwenz

thanks for your imput..
I've enlarged the thumbnails & added a title...& I think it
looks much better!

? does anyone know a way to add a link to the image Gallery PoPups ?
if not, then this would be a good addition to future versions

also added a "No Right Click" HTML script which will help with
copyrights without having to use those pesky & ugly watermarks

if anyone needs this, here's the script,
paste the code into the "HTML body" first page of the Main & Mobi & XARA adds it to everypage
at least my PROX10 does this automatically.



<script language=JavaScript>
<!--

var message="";
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function clickIE() {if (document.all) {(message);return false;}}
function clickNS(e) {if
(document.layers||(document.getElementById&&!docum ent.all)) {
if (e.which==2||e.which==3) {(message);return false;}}}
if (document.layers)
{document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);document. onmousedown=clickNS;}
else{document.onmouseup=clickNS;document.oncontext menu=clickIE;}

document.oncontextmenu=new Function("return false")
// -->
</script>

Right-click scripts don't prevent theft. The images can be gotten to in the source code. But even so, once the page is viewed they are in the viewers' cache.

Phone isn't handy right now so I'll take a look in a bit.

that's true & you can also screen capture zoomed in screen...
but it is still a deterrent.
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I always make sure my graphics are just good enough in original resolution to view well
but if downloaded it will be too much work to enhance to a usable state.

I think it's a great website! I don't smoke this stuff, but my friends say I need too.

I love it!
Its graphically very cool!

Great job..

Karen
(PS: I only checked it on my 17" screen - laptop using browser IE)