Web page question

[Marsha Cassada]

I know several members do web page design professionally. I have a queston about bandwidth. It would be great if one of you could look at the website I maintain and tell me exactly what items on it are causing the most bandwidth use.

Do I need to remove whole pages? Use fewer pictures on each page? Would it help to make some of the pages into off-page, jpg links?

I can upgrade to more bandwidth, but I don't want to if I don't have to. The site is paid for out of members' dues and is a simply a communicaton tool, as we don't have anything to sell.

I receive warnings from the webhost that I am close to exceeding my bandwidth limit. I am only at 80%, but it is obviously something I need to research. I am allowed 1000 MB per month.

Here is the site I maintain:

www.oklahomabuttonclub.org

Thanks for any help!

 

[Mona]

Also, if anyone is linking to any photos or images on that site, those photos showing up wherever they are linked from, will also suck up bandwidth. What I mean, is that supposeing a member has a nice photo of their horse on there, and they link to it to use as an avatar or to use on their own website, using the club site's url information, everyone that sees that photo online contributes to the bandwidth being used, so if the pic was used on a busy forum or a busy saleboard, that would suck up bandwidth like crazy.

 

[Marsha Cassada]

Also, if anyone is linking to any photos or images on that site, those photos showing up wherever they are linked from, will also suck up bandwidth. What I mean, is that supposeing a member has a nice photo of their horse on there, and they link to it to use as an avatar or to use on their own website, using the club site's url information, everyone that sees that photo online contributes to the bandwidth being used, so if the pic was used on a busy forum or a busy saleboard, that would suck up bandwidth like crazy.

Mona, Thanks for replying!

I try to put the text seperate from the pictures. I did have some overlapping, as I liked the presentation, but it usually compromises the text quality. I see what you mean on page 13: the lace picture is under the text. boohoo. I like the way that looks! I'll fix it. I also try to keep photos and text seperate as the text loads more quickly and folks can be reading while waiting for the pictures. No doubt there are still dialup viewers still out there.

I don't think anyone is using the pictures there as a link as I am the only one with a password to access it. But that is something I'll be thinking about.

I'm understanding correctly: only the viewed pages suck bandwidth. The fewer pages viewed the less bandwidth used. Correct? The total number of pages is not a problem, unless they are all viewed frequently and allowed to load fully. But I am assuming that 99% of the visitors do not look at every page, so my overlapping picture/text is the biggest problem.

I'm using the old Microsoft Publisher program. I'm not sure it's worth investing in new software (mentally and $$) so it's better if I can get this to work efficiently.

Thanks for your help!