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Beautiful, but Slow - SimCity.com http://simcity.ea.com/ Designing a website is always a balancing act. You want to have eye candy and elements that lure a visitor back. Plain text is boring and too many images will cause overload. SimCity.com is a beautiful and eye pleasing website that is easy to navigate with lots of great information for a gamer. However, if you are connecting via modem, be prepared to wait. With a boradband connection you'll see a blue empty page until 65 images load, which can take five or six seconds during low traffic periods or 20 seconds during high traffic periods. With a modem the wait is much longer. This is repeated with each page on the site. Despite the slow load times, this site is one of the better gaming sites with well organized information, plenty of hints and how to information along with a community area where gamers can share experiences and build on each other's knowledge. Webmaster Hints: Use a consistent page design and put all non-changing elements in include files that remain in cache when you change from page to page. This will reduce the time it takes to load a new page. Buy the game or the new expansion pack:
Posted by WEBnME @ 1/05/2004 11:04:00 AM 
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