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I’ve attached an image to show the problem.

It could be my monitor but I’m not sure. Why is the margin on the left so close to the edge? There isn’t any space at all even if I have to scroll to the right to see all the content.

Is there a way to narrow the width? The site is [here]. This happens in FireFox. In IE7 the images are askew. They show the correct size when loading but when finished loading, they are different. The image under “Join Us” top right and the image shown in the article, left size. Things are screwy.

Thanks for your help

Regards,
GeoVi 🙂

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#317123

Hiya avis!

wanted to take a look for you but the url is wrong :((

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1. GeoVi

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#317124

<em>@bennitos 144313 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hiya avis!

wanted to take a look for you but the url is wrong :((</blockquote>

OOops! Thanks, Bennitos! I forgot the .org and made the correction.
I appreciate YOU! :-[

GeoVi

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#317125

I just tried with firefox 3.5 and with IE8 and here the show like they should (just like the demo)

Took me a couple minutes to load the page tho, the used images are some around 2mb you might want to look at that.

Havent seen this template being used for a site like yours, but i must say it fits its subject really well. looks good 🙂

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1. GeoVi

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<em>@bennitos 144316 wrote:</em><blockquote>I just tried with firefox 3.5 and with IE8 and here the show like they should (just like the demo)

Took me a couple minutes to load the page tho, the used images are some around 2mb you might want to look at that.

Havent seen this template being used for a site like yours, but i must say it fits its subject really well. looks good :)</blockquote>

Well, I guess it’s on my end. That’s all that matters. Thanks, Bennitos.

About the images, you’ve mentioned that in the past but what do I do about it? I have Publisher and GIMP. I reduced the size and thought that helped. What can I do, please? Thanks, as I do not want the pages to be slow to load. And I’m sure you’re on highspeed/broadband Internet.

I appreciate the compliments coming from you! Thankies so much! 😀 Working on these sites are therapeutic for me. I’m listening to positive info as I work and pray. Keeps me positive. 🙂

Best regards,
GeoVi

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#317133

Ok lets take the picture from the frontpage article “The Bible Institute” as example.

That picture is 1818 KB big (1.8MB) with a resolution of 1521px × 1141px wich is a high resolution a big picture basicly.

But on your site you are showing it as a small picture 180px × 200px. So what you are actually doing is using a big picture but just showing it small on your website wich is resulting you download the big picture but it only looks as a small picture.

Best you can do is actually use a small picture, the users will see the same result and dont have to download the big picture (wich is only scaled down on the screen but has the big size).

To show the differense when you use a small picture, i downloaded the picture from the article and resized it to the size you actually use it on the website. In this example i made it 255*188. If you use this picture it shows the same for end users but it will load so much faster.

Example1.png
Size is now: 82kb
Times smaller in download size compared to the orignal: 22x
So it will load 22 times faster.

Example1.jpg (i used jpg as it usually is even smaller)
Size is now: 32kb
Times smaller in download size compared to the orignal: 57x
So it will load 57 times faster.

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Bennitos,

Thank you for making and taking the time not only to answer but respond with a solution by citing specificly with examples. The instructions were clear, concise and easy for me to understand. I know they will help others, too and hope they get to see this thread.

Eternally grateful. You’re GRRRRRRREeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaatt!

Regards,
GeoVi

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#317136

Your welcome 🙂

If you have more questions feel free to ask!

Ps. Marking this topic as solved……..dont get mad at me!!! 😛

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<em>@bennitos 144333 wrote:</em><blockquote>Your welcome 🙂

If you have more questions feel free to ask!

Ps. Marking this topic as solved……..dont get mad at me!!! :P</blockquote>

:laugh: Deal! I won’t. How could I?!? You answered and solved my problems, letting me know there wasn’t a problem, even. I know you were just kidding. *grin*

I’ll be sure to ask and hope you’re the one to reply the the solution! 😉

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