New Site Online

Ok, I’ve tweaked, tuned, debugged and fiddle farted around enough with the new web site design. It’s time to set it free. I just uploaded everything and the new site is live. Actually, it’s really 3 sites. Since internet bandwidth is vastly different from one user to the next, I decided to have a version for people with a slow connection, a normal version that should be OK for the average user and a tricked out version for those with fast connections. Think of it as websites running in three parallel universes. How do you choose which you get? The “home page” of the FishTalesFilms web site is now a launch pad that lets you choose the speed that suits your situation. the actual sites are sub-domains located at: lowband.fishtalesfilms.com, main.fishtalesfilms.com and hiband.fishtalesfilms.com. If you don’t want to go through the “launch pad” page each time, just bookmark the “home page” of the version of your choice.

The content is basically the same on each site, but adjustments were made to each for different levels of performance. The version for slow connections has single banner photos on each page header and they are compressed heavily to make the files as small as possible. That degrades the quality of the images, but they should load on slow connections. The normal version of the site has multiple photos for the banners in each header and they do a cool dissolve effect. The images are not compressed as heavily as the slow version, so the quality is better. The high bandwidth version of the site has all the same features of the normal version, but the images are saved at a higher quality. Also, on the video page, instead of still images in the header, it is HD video instead. On all three versions of the site, the video’s are the same because they are all hosted on Vimeo. If you have a slower connection, you can just select a lower resolution in the Vimeo player. The other big change in the site is the Blog which is now hosted on Tumblr. I will write more about this in a separate post. When I do an update, I have to do all three sites, but since most of the content is common to all three, it really isn’t a big deal. The Blog is what changes most, and all three sites pull that from Tumblr so no additional effort is requited on my part. Hope you enjoy the new site, it’s loaded with tasty visual goodness!