Website Size That Has a Lot of Photos-Trying to make smaller

[WebDeb]

We have designed a theater website that seems to grow like crazy. We used the optimization tool for photos and have been able to get it down to 34mb. Have been trying to make it smaller so we can share on the XARA cloud but it was still saying it was to large. I reached out to XARA and they said it might be because of the memory. Finally changed the bottom image on the home page to just a box on another test site and it finally worked. As close as this was, I am concerned that if we add one thing that it will throw it over the size again.

Wondering if we shouldn't size down photos for the web in Adobe first and then add if that would help?

We also use head shots for the same people (ie actors, actresses) for different plays.

Is there a way in XARA to name the photo or just copy it and paste it where I need it to repeat so we are only using one photo instead of 3-4?

We love XARA and used to be a SERIF user where we could tell it to export to a certain folder and if we named it a certain name, I believe it used the same photo for resource when we did that.

Hope all that makes sense. Here is the link to the website that we designed. http://kcmeltingpot.com/

Thank you in advance

[Acorn]

We have designed a theater website that seems to grow like crazy. We used the optimization tool for photos and have been able to get it down to 34mb. Have been trying to make it smaller so we can share on the XARA cloud but it was still saying it was to large. I reached out to XARA and they said it might be because of the memory. Finally changed the bottom image on the home page to just a box on another test site and it finally worked. As close as this was, I am concerned that if we add one thing that it will throw it over the size again.

Wondering if we shouldn't size down photos for the web in Adobe first and then add if that would help? No

We also use head shots for the same people (ie actors, actresses) for different plays.
Is there a way in XARA to name the photo or just copy it and paste it where I need it to repeat so we are only using one photo instead of 3-4? Yes, use Utilities > Names and Name the image like filename="fredQuimbysJerry", with no file extension. Clone thereafter.
We love XARA and used to be a SERIF user where we could tell it to export to a certain folder and if we named it a certain name, I believe it used the same photo for resource when we did that. There are ways to do this but see above.

Hope all that makes sense. Here is the link to the website that we designed. http://kcmeltingpot.com/
Thank you in advance

Some answers in-line.

You seem to have somehow duplicated content on-line:

index.htm
index.htm
shows-tickets-and-support.htm
shows-tickets-and-support.htm
2121-cast-crew.htm
2121-cast-crew.htm
radio-golf.htm
radio-golf.htm
funnyhouse-of-a-negro.htm
funnyhouse-of-a-negro.htm
hollow-roots.htm
hollow-roots.htm
sunset-baby-cast-crew.htm
sunset-baby-cast-crew.htm
aint-no-such-thing-as-midnight-black-cast-crew.htm
aint-no-such-thing-as-midnight-black-cast-crew.htm
single-black-female.htm
single-black-female.htm
outreach-education.htm
outreach-education.htm
drama-time-video.htm
drama-time-video.htm
outreach-education-drama-time-sign-up.htm
outreach-education-drama-time-sign-up.htm
outreach-education-what-class-are-you-interested-in.htm
outreach-education-what-class-are-you-interested-in.htm
gallery.htm
gallery.htm
the-green-book-wine-club-train-trip.htm
the-green-book-wine-club-train-trip.htm
on-sight.htm
on-sight.htm
stories-on-the-bus.htm
stories-on-the-bus.htm
next-of-kin.htm
next-of-kin.htm
gallery-on-shoulders-now.htm
gallery-on-shoulders-now.htm
about-us.htm
about-us.htm
contact.htm
contact.htm
contact-mailing-list.htm
contact-mailing-list.htm
home-page-more-nicole.htm
home-page-more-nicole.htm

I have no idea if the 1,311 images are also duplicated, though I do suspect so.

A 34MB design file is no real biggie so it not loading into ?Xara Cloud? is not your failing but possible the duplication. What are you trying to "share" as Xara Cloud is definitely not suitable for website development (lack of layers, no control over Placeholders and other fundamental snafus)

I would need to understand how you are publishing the site before any more help can be offered.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

Acorn - Do you think those duplicate pages might be for Variants and/or Retina size photos? Probably not because they would have names that reflected this. Or would they?

[Acorn]

Acorn - Do you think those duplicate pages might be for Variants and/or Retina size photos? Probably not because they would have names that reflected this. Or would they?

Gary, variants are simply DIV in the same HTML file so no. The Variant is simply hidden as the browser is resized when one of the others is made visible.

Acorn

[Egg Bramhill]

Is there a way in XARA to name the photo or just copy it and paste it where I need it to repeat so we are only using one photo instead of 3-4?

As long as you're not using variants, which you don't seem to be at present, you can. With the image selected, click on the name tag and give it the name "filename=my-pic" without the speech marks.