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From: "Michael Hymer" <>
Subject: RE: [FreeHelp] Correction
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 23:19:57 -0400
In-Reply-To: <4160AA97.50906@earthlink.net>


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From: Kenny Hedgpeth [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 9:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Correction


Pat and all -

Jim has one GIGANTIC table that goes on and on from here to the moon and
beyond ... with just about every ancestor he can connect up with, all on
ONE page :(

Jim -

you might want to break up your ONE page into a few separate pages i.e.
A-D E-H I-L M-P Q-T U-X Y-Z .... and or even spread out even
further :)

what you have now, will tax the memory and other resource utilities to
the MAX, of any possible viewer's you might get to come your way ...

they are (1) likely to not see your page at all, (2) high possibility of
not hanging on long enough for your page to fully generate on their
screen ... and (3) "the killer" chances are that they will not return to
view your page again in the future :(

this is just my thoughts :)

someone else might be able to get down to the nuts and bolts as to what
is really going on with your web page ? ? ?

your page took over two minutes to completely finish generating on my
puter :( ya I know dial-up connection ... LOL

Ken -


>>>>Yes, it looks like it began life as an excel spreadsheet.
It loaded up after a delay in Firefox. I use adblock so none
of the ads on the page load - could be an issue with IE users.
Here is a small sample of the source HTML:

<!-- The following table was generated by the Internet Assistant Wizard for
Microsoft Excel. -->
<!-- ------------------------- -->
<!-- START OF CONVERTED OUTPUT -->
<!-- ------------------------- -->
<Table border>
<TR ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom">
<TD><FONT FACE="Arial"><B>NAME</B></FONT></TD>
<TD><FONT FACE="Arial"><B>DATE OF BIRTH</B></FONT></TD>
<TD><FONT FACE="Arial"><B>PLACE OF BIRTH</B></FONT></TD>
<TD><FONT FACE="Arial"><B>PUTATIVE FATHER</B></FONT></TD>
<TD><FONT FACE="Arial"><B>PUTATIVE MOTHER</B></FONT></TD>
<TD><FONT FACE="Arial"><B>PUTATIVE SPOUSE</B></FONT></TD>
<TD><FONT FACE="Arial"><B>REF#</B></FONT></TD>
</TR>

This pattern repeats over and over.
The page would greatly benefit from some paring down,
not to mention css. There are a truckload of font tags.
Maybe there is a way to do this as text in a list format??


MH


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