ZX Slideshow support thread

[picandnix]

Glad to hear that!


What version of IE are you using? I just tested with IE9 and compatibility mod for IE8 and IE7 and it works fine...

Although - it's extremely slow to load - you have 10 slides and you haven't optimized the images (250 kB average) which means loading more than 2.5 MB just for the slideshow. And, the slideshow images are loaded on DOM ready which means the slides don't even start to load until the rest of the page elements are loaded. Even without the slide images, your site is aprox. 1 MB (too much)... Perhaps you should just leave it and wait to see if loads after let's say 30-40 seconds, depending on your internet connection, server load etc.

Hi Balihr
Thank you for taking the time to look at it for me. I have optimized my slider images and I have also gone from having 10 images down to 5 but it still seems painfully slow in loading. Any thoughts please? www.shabby lane .co.uk
Thank you once again.
P.S what does DOM mean please? I was checking it in IE 9 for your reference.

[balihr]

I just checked your site and I don't think it's painfully slow. Just the contrary - it's quite fast. Take a look at the test results here.

Although there are a few more things that could be done and make the site even more fast and more optimized, these results are really good so I'm not really sure why YOU don't get good load times. I tested with multiple browsers and it loads quite fast, and the browsing experience is great, really fast...

[jagall]

hi balihr

Big Big Big thank you for the tips, I have been messing around and followed the divs you sent and has worked great, so have been able to totally reform my homepage, maybe have a look here to see what you think. Sometimes the slideshow is slow to load. Noticed on the another site in this thread they have the navigation buttons, in the mod it says shows navigation numbering but when I select true, nothing shows up below slider.
Still need to clean up files, etc to try and speed it up so as good practice even if a css file is only one specific page, I should merge it into the main stylesheet? Thanks again for all your help.

[balihr]

Navigation buttons: please try playing with the css. Buttons are set to absolute position at bottom: -40px and if you change it to 0 it will show as a part of the slider... I'm not sure if it was something I missed or it's got to do with your customization and don't have the time to go hunting for errors right now... Sorry.

The layout on sweetco - it's probably work in progress. I suggest using images in a way that you have them lined up, to form some kind of a grid. Something like this.

BTW, Firebug is giving me a lot of undefined errors, you might wanna look into that...

[picandnix]

I just checked your site and I don't think it's painfully slow. Just the contrary - it's quite fast. Take a look at the test results here.

Although there are a few more things that could be done and make the site even more fast and more optimized, these results are really good so I'm not really sure why YOU don't get good load times. I tested with multiple browsers and it loads quite fast, and the browsing experience is great, really fast...

Balihr you have just put a smile of relief on my face, thank you :-) I guess it must just my connection speed.
Please say if it's out of the remit of this thread (or maybe PM me a to-do list pretty please), but what else would you recommend I could do to further optimize or enhance performance please?
Thank you so much once again.

[balihr]

Balihr you have just put a smile of relief on my face, thank you :-) I guess it must just my connection speed.
Please say if it's out of the remit of this thread (or maybe PM me a to-do list pretty please), but what else would you recommend I could do to further optimize or enhance performance please?
Thank you so much once again.

Yup, this would be completely OT and I'd like to keep the thread as clean as possible for others who might wanna read it... Will PM you.

[jagall]

worked a treat once set to 0, thanks. Yes I was still trying to align the elements, know what you mean though - cheers for looking at it for me. in relation to the errors, when I run validator they don't seem to appear. but what I have notices since installing the slideshow is that when I for e.g. check who's online in the admin panel and I see my own ip it shows that I am on an undefined page as opposed to the index.php page, so I just wondering there must be some relation between these errors and the installation of the slideshow, see image here:

[balihr]

I'm sorry, but I don't know what happened. I don't think it's related to ZX Slideshow since I don't see why or how it could be caused by it. Maybe you've missed something when merging the files, I really can't tell. You might try to restore the old tpl_index_default.php and/or tpl_index_categories.php (before installing ZXS) and see if the problem continues.

[jagall]

thanks balihr, I tested the tpl.index.php file and removed
<!-- begin edit for ZX Slideshow -->
<?php if(ZX_SLIDESHOW_STATUS == true) { ?>
<?php require($template->get_template_dir('zx_slideshow.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/zx_slideshow.php'); ?>
<?php } ?>
<!-- end edit for ZX Slideshow -->
and it was fine again once I put it back in, it brings up undefined? what do you think?

[balihr]

Try this.

<!-- begin edit for ZX Slideshow -->
<?php if(ZX_SLIDESHOW_STATUS == 'true') { ?>
<?php require($template->get_template_dir('zx_slideshow.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/zx_slideshow.php'); ?>
<?php } ?>
<!-- end edit for ZX Slideshow -->

Notice the 'true' vs. true. Other than that, I'm out of ideas...