Comments on: Slow Verus Fast Access For your Visitors http://www.awsom.org/2008/slow-verus-fast-access-for-your-visitors/ Get your website up and running in an AWSOM fashion Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:17:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John Sinclair http://www.awsom.org/2008/slow-verus-fast-access-for-your-visitors/comment-page-1/#comment-53419 John Sinclair Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:55:15 +0000 http://www.awsom.org/?p=302#comment-53419 As I've mentioned to people before, my DSL account includes 20 hours of dial-up access I can use if my primary connection is out. Even before I was with this carrier, I kept a redundant dial-up account on the side. Ten dollars a month (less than a day-old donut with your coffee) lets even budding web developers check their page downloads once in a while. A good page is one that pleases the visitor. That is: it delivers the goods quickly. Awesome techno-bloat is just overhead -- dead air -- until the content comes along. As I’ve mentioned to people before, my DSL account includes 20 hours of dial-up access I can use if my primary connection is out. Even before I was with this carrier, I kept a redundant dial-up account on the side. Ten dollars a month (less than a day-old donut with your coffee) lets even budding web developers check their page downloads once in a while.

A good page is one that pleases the visitor. That is: it delivers the goods quickly. Awesome techno-bloat is just overhead — dead air — until the content comes along.

]]> By: Lorelle http://www.awsom.org/2008/slow-verus-fast-access-for-your-visitors/comment-page-1/#comment-16744 Lorelle Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:54:13 +0000 http://www.awsom.org/?p=302#comment-16744 It's interesting how we began designing for dial up, then moved towards embracing high speed broadband, but now we are stepping back to deal with mobile access, a step above dial-up, but not much. And I agree that many designers today show no restraint when it comes to overloading a page with underlying code. It might look minimal on the surface, but underneath is a lot of bandwidth suckers. Thanks for spreading the words and thinking about this. It's important that people understand that a balance must be found to accommodate both demands. It’s interesting how we began designing for dial up, then moved towards embracing high speed broadband, but now we are stepping back to deal with mobile access, a step above dial-up, but not much.

And I agree that many designers today show no restraint when it comes to overloading a page with underlying code. It might look minimal on the surface, but underneath is a lot of bandwidth suckers.

Thanks for spreading the words and thinking about this. It’s important that people understand that a balance must be found to accommodate both demands.

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