WinCustomize 2K5: Status Report
Growing Pains
Wednesday, December 8, 2004 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Hooking up a new site that gets millions of visitors each month is a challenge and boy are we being reminded of that.
So where are we? Well, we're currently working through performance issues across the site. And so we're trying to narrow down ways of improving performance of the site overall.
We have lots of bandwidth. The problem boils down to servers (we need more), optimizing code, and optimizing the database.
We apologize for performance issues, we're working very very hard to keep things rolling. Stay tuned..
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Kyhlwch
Reply #22 Thursday, December 9, 2004 2:02 PM
Reply #22 Thursday, December 9, 2004 2:02 PM
Looking good - very tasteful! ok - I'm using WinXP. My screen res is 1280 x 1040. I have large fonts enabled. I'm using FireFox.
I was able to log in without any trouble. I had some screen spacing weirdness before I logged in (tiling graphics &I had to scroll horizantally, blech!) but logging in resolved most of that. The only problem I'm still seeing is that the background graphic for the "Browse Site" side bar is still tiling. It's only that one sidebar. The background for the other sides - "This Just In" and "Resources", etc - look perfect.
I only mention this because you asked for feedback. Good luck on the rest of your redesign!
I was able to log in without any trouble. I had some screen spacing weirdness before I logged in (tiling graphics &I had to scroll horizantally, blech!) but logging in resolved most of that. The only problem I'm still seeing is that the background graphic for the "Browse Site" side bar is still tiling. It's only that one sidebar. The background for the other sides - "This Just In" and "Resources", etc - look perfect.
I only mention this because you asked for feedback. Good luck on the rest of your redesign!
Dark-Star
Reply #23 Thursday, December 9, 2004 3:03 PM
Reply #23 Thursday, December 9, 2004 3:03 PM
Hello Kyhlwch,
I'm testing the site in FireFox (0.9.2) I can't seem to duplicate your issue. If you could please, tell me what page you are viewing (or better still, send me an email with a screen shot at [email protected]) so I can determine how to fix the issue.
Thank you Kyhlwch!
George
I'm testing the site in FireFox (0.9.2) I can't seem to duplicate your issue. If you could please, tell me what page you are viewing (or better still, send me an email with a screen shot at [email protected]) so I can determine how to fix the issue.
Thank you Kyhlwch!
George
PurrBall
Reply #24 Thursday, December 9, 2004 3:51 PM
Reply #24 Thursday, December 9, 2004 3:51 PM
I'm sailing through the site now. The only performance issue is the picures for skin previews are still a little slow, but there's really no way to fix that. 
LeegleechN
Reply #25 Friday, December 10, 2004 12:28 AM
Reply #25 Friday, December 10, 2004 12:28 AM
A bunch of points: I'm on a fast connection using firefox and it doesn't seem to load any faster. I like the new streamlined interface, I think you guys did a great job. Looking at the source, it looks like all the graphics pointers have absolute urls. Why? How about having alternate styles you can switch between? For example, you could "preview" Universe Metal on the site by choosing the appearence to be that. That brings another idea. It wold be nifty if you could make the site in the style of some of the more popular or intereresting skins. Then you could have a "like this skin? Download it here!" link. Alright, I ran out of stuff to say. Out.
PS. Green smilies????
PS. Green smilies????
Lynx's Den
Reply #26 Friday, December 10, 2004 3:28 AM
Reply #26 Friday, December 10, 2004 3:28 AM
Ok Can someone explain to me why my preview shots are not updating? While the download link shot is updated to the new/updated version of my screenshots, i've updated 2 and both are like that.... 
Dark-Star
Reply #27 Friday, December 10, 2004 7:13 AM
Reply #27 Friday, December 10, 2004 7:13 AM
Hello LeegleechN,
To answer your first question about the URL being absolute is because all of the images on WinCustomize point to our Image Server (images.stardock.com) which is a separate server. So doing a path such as "images/sitelogo.jpg" isn't possible.
The second question about alternate styles isn't possible at the moment, as this would affect the way we are caching the website in asp.net.
George
To answer your first question about the URL being absolute is because all of the images on WinCustomize point to our Image Server (images.stardock.com) which is a separate server. So doing a path such as "images/sitelogo.jpg" isn't possible.
The second question about alternate styles isn't possible at the moment, as this would affect the way we are caching the website in asp.net.
George
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Reply #21 Thursday, December 9, 2004 12:36 PM