[donovanstudio]

Hi -

This is my first post.

my website www.portraitfusion.com seems to be loading the video 'choppy' according to some folks...i've looked and it seems fine, but maybe that's b/c it's stored in my cache? i've got the site hosted with lunarpages (hostmonster was kind of a monster) and so i think i have plenty of bandwidth.

can anyone give me advice on how to load this stuff faster/cleaner?

thanks in advance
M

[laughing2]

The video is quite choppy. Perhaps if you placed the video on a separate page it would work better and run smoother. This is because there are two many objects on the page. For example, your flash banner takes a while to load. Aim for slower loading pages by restricting the amount of videos, large pictures and flash presentations. This will make the website faster loading and will hopefully make the video play smoothly.

[00trav]

the page was fine for me, but I agree with laughing2's suggestion to move the video, depending on the processing power of the website viewers computer, the flash will slow down. there is a lot of flash on that page.

[colinsp]

Very slow to load for me and very 'choppy' video. I have a dedicated 3meg link in Spain. The flash took a long time to load as did the images on the sample page. I agree that splitting the video off and or getting rid of the flash would help. You also have several errors in your css according to the FF web developers toolbar, run your site through the W3C validator.

[RTHaworth]

I like the top nav banner of your page but it all seems a bit disjointed after that. I dont see any need or gain from the flash intro. And what is the function of the video. Can you not just get rid?

[TheRobatron]

The whole page is slow loading for me as well, and the video is choppy. I think the video makes the page too busy (as in both processor power and appearance) - just a plain white background underneath the flash banner would improve it. By the way, that's a pretty cool banner

[tex0gen]

Its not that its choppy. It just has slow buffering due to either.. the bandwidth on your site or there are too many things going on at one time such as the flash images at the top of the page. The only way of sorting this would be to move one or the other to another page. Good luck!

[CyberGeek]

Hi,

As others have said that the video is choppy, it is. I recommend writing a small JavaScript function to delay the start of the video until everything is loaded.