How do you make a landing page?

[-Dome-]

I made a landing page with PS that I uploaded to my website. Unfortunately, it takes 10 seconds for the page to load using the lowest resolution possible. Is there a step that I am missing?

 

[nat3r]

your making a landing page with photoshop?

also, maybe you have a lame host.

 

[dchuk]

I made a landing page with PS that I uploaded to my website. Unfortunately, it takes 10 seconds for the page to load using the lowest resolution possible. Is there a step that I am missing?

Play with your image compression settings in PS, you're probably exporting either fatty png's or max resolution jpg's, each of which will bloat your site up a bit

 

[-Dome-]

Play with your image compression settings in PS, you're probably exporting either fatty png's or max resolution jpg's, each of which will bloat your site up a bit

I'll give it a go.

@ nat3r - What are you using to make lp's?

 

[ctdenike03]

sounds like youre probably making the whole page layout in ps. when you export the layout save all of the background slices as gifs, and all of the important parts as jpegs (such as the header, call to action button...)

 

[juntao65]

CSS + Html ftw. altho if u dont know it then do ^

 

[LandoFormosa]

just make sure your file size is not too big... and your host is fast enough

 

[Cupid Stunt]

Perhaps your images are too large in size? Try slicing them up, and also save them as .gif (if they don't have too many gradients or anything) or a lower quality .jpg or .png.

If you're a total noob I recommend you check out a CMS rather than coding yourself - Wordpress would be your best bet.

 

[greyhat]

are you making proper use of repeating images etc??? Or is the page just one big image??

 

[rmbarnes]

If you link us to the landing page which is loading slowly we could probably help better.

 

[greyhat]

Do you have a cheap hosting account??

 

[yahooanswers]

Try to build in html and remove images if you are using them. 10 seconds ooh yeah...!
International standards say that your website should load in less than 3 seconds or your 40% of your website customers will flee away.

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[emp]

Grab a CSS framework.

I use blueprint (also supported by the big G), but there are tons of em out there.

::emp::