This maybe to personnal taste but i'd recommend editing the template to a fixed width of maybe 750px.

On higher resolutions the 100% margins make your posts look a little skimpy. Considering the blog type layout i'd always go for a fixed margin.. it'll avoid you having a one line post spread across 1600 pixels. Least you'll know that how you see your posts will be the same for everyone else.

Ciarán

just had a quick look --- the front page is too big (770k or something ) - it should be less than 100 if possible - i'm strugling with the same issue a bit myself because it's hard if you want some photos on the front page but i think you will have a hard time getting anyone with dialup to use it because the load time would be huge ... minutes i'd say - i remember when i was on dialup it used to take 5 minutes per meg for downloads - well yours is like 3/4 of a meg !

personally i would remove as much as possible from the f.p. and just leave a few well optimised images (like less than 20 k ) and move all the other stuff to other pages - theres lots of info on the web about page load times and optimisation - and sites that tell you load times at various connection speeds

if you dont want to do that then you could easliy drop 100-200k by putting a bit of work into optimising the images which you should be doing anyway

here are your main culprits

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I was thinking of setting it to a fixed width of 1020 instead. These days there 1024 by x is the standard resolution on even the cheapest computers. According to my google analytics data, less than 3% of my visitors have a screen resolution of 800x600 anyways.





Its a little bit harder in my situation because the front page is mostly dynamic content, news headlines and events etc. So there are occasionally large images displayed. However I am on dial up my self while at home and it does not have a noted increased load time. The pages displays in a few seconds while the images loading after. Images such as http://www.paintballer.ie/images/guest1.jpg are due for a change alright though.



Cheers for the feedback

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yes the page would load without the images - im sure you have set the heights and widths ( didnt check ) but this makes a big difference to readability when images are still loading - make sure you clear the browser cache ( or shift refresh the page - i think works on most browsers ) to see the real page load times though.

good luck with the site

Just made a few more changes to the front page. Decided to keep the width at 100%. After a poll on my site I found out that most people with really high resolution screens rarely have their browsers on full screen mode anyway.