confused by page size

[JWJ]

A page on my site is nothing more than a poem. ( 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]

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]

Don't you just feel so stupid when the solution is so simple? Why didn't I think of that?

Nice one Mark .... Thanks.

Update: not long after

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

[trackerm]

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]

Originally Posted by trackerm

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.