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JWJ
12-09-2004, 08:02 AM
A page on my site is nothing more than a poem. ( www.JWJonline.net/mask.php (http://www.JWJonline.net/mask.php) ). Looking at my stats I am puzzled by the bandwidth of this page compared to other simple text-only pages. It is completely disproportionate to anything else.

As a non-techie novice I use Frontpage and don't know anything about html. However, I looked at the html yesterday for clues as to why this page is so big. Like most poems it has very many line breaks, and I see that there is a chunk of code to do with margins, spans, fonts, etc inserted after every line.

I tried to remove it, but Frontpage just keeps putting it back. Could someone look at the code and advise me if this is why my page size is large, and if so, what I can do about it.

Thanks

trackerm
12-09-2004, 09:36 AM
OK being a non-techie this is the way I did it on Front Page Express:

Cut and copy text off webpage onto Notepad (this clears all formatting)
Delete extra lines that Notpad put in.
Open a new FrontPage page and make a table 2 columns and 1 row.
Copy each side from Notepad into each column.
Fix any minor formatting eg font.
Copy HTML and cut and paste it over the HTML of your mask.htm page.

My code is



<div align="center"><center>

<table border="0" width="800">
<tr>
<td><font face="Verdana">Don’t be fooled by me.

Don’t be fooled by the face I wear

For I wear a mask. I wear a thousand masks,

Masks that I’m afraid to take off

And none of them are me.





Pretending is an art that’s second nature with me

But don’t be fooled, for God’s sake don’t
be fooled.

I give you the impression that I’m secure

That all is sunny and unruffled with me

Within as well as without,

That confidence is my name

And coolness my game

That the water’s calm

and that I am in command,

and that I need no one.

But don’t believe me. Please!





My surface may be smooth but my

Surface is my mask,

My ever-varying and ever-concealing mask.

Beneath lies no smugness, no complacence.

Beneath dwells the real me in confusion,

in fear, in aloneness.

But I hide this.

I don’t want anybody to know it.

I panic at the thought of my weaknesses

and fear exposing them.

That’s why I frantically create my

masks to hide behind.





They’re nonchalant, sophisticated facades

To help me pretend,

To shield me from the glance that knows.

But such a glance is precisely my salvation,

my only salvation, and I know it.





That is, if it is followed by acceptance,

If it is followed by love.

It is the only thing that can liberate me from myself

from my own self-built prison walls

from the barriers that I so painstakingly erect.

That glance is the only thing that assures me

of what I can’t assure myself,

that I’m really worth something.

But I don’t tell you this.

I don’t dare.

I’m afraid to. </font></td>
<td><font face="Verdana">I’m afraid you’ll
think less of me,

that you’ll laugh

And your laugh would kill me.

I’m afraid that deep-down I’m

nothing, that I’m just no good

And you will see this and reject me.

So I play my game, my desperate, pretending game

With a façade of assurance without

And a trembling child within.

So begins the parade of masks

The glittering but empty parade of Masks,

And my life becomes a front.

I idly chatter to you in suave tones of surface talk.

I tell you everything that is nothing

And nothing of what’s everything, of

what’s crying within me.





So when I’m going through my routine

Do not be fooled by what I’m saying.

Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am saying.


Hear what I’d like to say but what I cannot say.





I dislike hiding. Honestly.

I dislike the superficial game I’m playing

the superficial phony game.

I’d really like to be genuine and spontaneous

And me.

But I need your help, your hand to hold

Even though my masks would tell you otherwise.

It will not be easy for you.

Long felt inadequacies make my defenses strong.

The nearer you approach me

The blinder I may strike back.

Despite what books may say of men,

I am irrational;

I fight against the very thing that

I cry out for.





You wonder who I am?

You shouldn’t

For I am every man

Every woman

Who wears a mask.

Don’t be fooled by me.

At least not by the face I wear.

</font>

<font face="Verdana"></font>&</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font face="Verdana"></font>&</td>
<td><font face="Verdana"></font>&</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center></div>


Well thats the way would do it. Others who know HTML prolly know a better way... but I cheat to keep it simple :)

Mark

JWJ
12-09-2004, 10:10 AM
Don't you just feel so stupid when the solution is so simple? :oops: Why didn't I think of that?

Nice one Mark .... Thanks.

Update: not long after

It is done .... 31Kb down to less than 8Kb. :D

trackerm
12-09-2004, 03:39 PM
Don't ever feel stupid! We are travelling in an area of 'real computers’. That we can do it at all is a credit to us.
That we are able to do nearly the same as people who talk about CSS, XML, PHP is very cool, so never think we need to be embarrassed that we get stuck with a little problem.

:)

All the best to you.

Mark :)

webado
12-09-2004, 03:44 PM
Don't ever feel stupid! We are travelling in an area of 'real computers’. That we can do it at all is a credit to us.
That we are able to do nearly the same as people who talk about CSS, XML, PHP is very cool, so never think we need to be embarrassed that we get stuck with a little problem.

:)

All the best to you.

Mark :)
Mark, John, you guys are great. You're so totally right and with the best attitude. You can be proud of what you've done and what you're doing. :D