PLEASE get rid of the junk at the top of the page!
tsarist
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Dear Daz
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Your site is slow enough without running that scroll of sale items and other stuff at the top of each page. Please get rid of it.
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You could take a page from Rendo. They have a page called "Daily Deals" and they post information there. True, they have some annoying scrolls on a few of their pages.
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Man, that stuff really grinds my machine to a halt.
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...agreed, as well as being bothersome and distracting.
I'd rather have a site that looks less "splashy" and actually works right.
The file size for the Modular Ruins (which is a large image) is 114 KB.
1 megabyte = 1024 Kilobytes
114 KB is reasonable. I just checked my images (I'm a webmaster, over 14 years) and mine average 144- 160 for images that are 450 pixels to 500 pixels height or width.So the web team at least compressed the images. But no debate from me as to whether we need that junk on every page (if it's their CSS setup, it's an easy fix. They change one page, which is a stylesheet, and poof, off it goes on all pages.)
Hey at least they haven't started the Pop-up Flash adverts. I hate that stuff scrolling all over the place...can't find the close "X" button. Or how about the adverts that talk? Scared the life out of me the first time I happened on a page with em...I thought someone was in the house. >:(
I took matters into my own hands. Firefox plus an add-on called Yarip. Nuked that whole topbar ad thing. It was just ridiculous. It filled up my whole screen.
I'm surprised more people haven't commented about this. I normally log in to the DAZ store looking at the New Releases page. If I want to look at, say, today's Fastgrab or the Value category I click on the link and... nothing much happens. That advert strip plus the normal page header takes up so much of my browser window — and I have a fairly large screen — all I can see of the new page is a narrow little strip at the bottom. Nothing else on the page changes.
And this is modern commercial website design...? :ohh:
...found the add on but it comes up with a yellow instead of green "Add To..." button and no additional details. Any additional information I need to know before DLing and installing it?
...found the add on but it comes up with a yellow instead of green "Add To..." button and no additional details. Any additional information I need to know before DLing and installing it?
I've never had any problem with it. It's not the most user-friendly of add-ons; I figure out what to block by trial and error. You can pick things off the menu and it will highlight them, so you can see what will be removed. You can also un-remove them if you want.
...excellent, thanks.
Also picked up a couple other useful ones while I was there including a one click clear cache button and the Lazarus add on which auto saves information from online forms (such as here). This sounds like a real lifesaver as I constantly deal with numerous connectivity issues at home which often result in timeouts, resets, and even server connection issues that cause me to lose what I've written.
I'm surprised more people haven't commented about this. I normally log in to the DAZ store looking at the New Releases page. If I want to look at, say, today's Fastgrab or the Value category I click on the link and... nothing much happens. That advert strip plus the normal page header takes up so much of my browser window — and I have a fairly large screen — all I can see of the new page is a narrow little strip at the bottom. Nothing else on the page changes.
And this is modern commercial website design...? :ohh:
This is my experiences too. I have a 23" monitor with 1920 x 1080 resolution, and the banner thing takes up my whole frakking screen!
Yeah, the worst commercial web site I've ever seen is this one. I have a quad core 2.5GHz Mac, any web site that slows it to a crawl is an appalling mess, and this one does, or at least it did until I blocked that ridiculous scrolling ad on every store page. Now the site is merely slow.
For me, Renderosity is much slower. DAZ loads pretty well.
For me, Renderosity is much slower. DAZ loads pretty well.
NoScript and a few other blocking add-ons for FireFox will take care of the problems at Renderosity. Once you block the worst offenders at both the DAZ site is by far the worst of the two for speed, though in the last few days Renderosity revamped their site and it's now the ugliest commercial site I know of right now. DAZ is close, but not quite as ugly, but DAZ is by far the slower of the two on my machine. Both sites are extremely badly coded in my view, just in different ways. If I were managing a web design company I would not employ anyone who has done web design for either DAZ or Renderosity on the basis that they need to spend a year or two working elsewhere first so they can save up for a clue...
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True
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Renderosity IS ugly, but it does work.
Just today I couldn't even get items into the cart at Daz. Ongoing problems with the Daz site ever since they changed.
I have had no trouble shopping at Renderosity.
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NoScript is a miracle. I usually zip through most sites since I got it.
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I hope Rendo doesn't take 8 months to get their site working better.