This was demonstration day in class. I had been up late Wednesday night replacing the image files in the galleries with larger images and testing that the site worked. Everything seemed to work fine.
On Thursday I went to class for the demonstrations by the students of their sites. When it came my turn to show my site: disaster! The site wouldn’t load. It kept showing up at the page of the server provider. After a while several of my fellow students were able to load the home page, but the images for the other pages wouldn’t load at first. After a while several got it to work. The instructor managed to get it to work enough to show some of the images.
In a discussion after class as to what had happened the best guess was that the new files were too large. At home I was working late at night on a fast connection so I didn’t notice the problem. At school the connection was slower and it was during a time when a higher demand was being made on the servers of the outfit providing a home for the site. and took too long to load. At home it wasn’t a serious issue because the images cached in the computer and so were not actually downloading. Later when I told my daughter Anna what had happened she suggested that in future I use a browser other than the one I used to work on the site to check it. This would get around the situation where the browser cached images. Using cached images would make the site seem more responsive than it would where each image had to be downloaded. In short it would give me an experience with the site similar to someone visiting it for the first time.
As the saying goes, you live and learn.
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