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PottersHouse Bears
Ohio
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millie May 31, 2005

Would appreciate any advice I could get on improving my website. Although my site is fairly new, it seems to be a bit sluggish. My daughter says I'm impatient, maybe so. At any rate, are there things I'm missing?

Teddy Bear Academy
Nicholasville, KY
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Laura Lynn Banner SponsorMay 31, 2005

Hi Millie!

I just popped in to check the board "real quick" before starting dinner bear_rolleyes and won't be able to check out your site till tomorrow I think...

But when I did my website... I looked at a bunch of other bear artists' sites -- as a collector -- and tried to figure out what I liked and did not like about them. Then I tried to incorporate those things (or leave things out) in my own site.

Not sure if that will help... bear_rolleyes

nomonkeybiz.com
Costa Mesa, CA
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Quy Help Advisor, Banner SponsorJun 2, 2005

millie wrote:

Although my site is fairly new, it seems to be a bit sluggish.

Hello Millie,

Your site is sluggish due to the file size of the images. The main page has Skippy at 198K, Fergie at 98K, HuggyBear at 343K, Margaret at 395K plus the other images. That is alot to download. You have to reduce these images to actual dimensions rather than scaling. If you don't know how to do this, please reply back.

Quy

Teddy Bear Academy
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Laura Lynn Banner SponsorJun 2, 2005

Horray for Quy!

Seriously.. thanks bear_original

PottersHouse Bears
Ohio
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millie Jun 2, 2005

Quy,

Thank you for your help. I am not real computer saavy so I would appreciate your help in reducing my images.

Thanks again.

Wisdom Bears
Ayrshire, Scotland.
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Wisdom Bears Jun 2, 2005

Hi Millie , just paid a visit to your lovely web-site. I loved Clarrisse and Belle the rabbit. Your site is really nice , so you carry on making your lovely bears. Huggles Rita xxx

PottersHouse Bears
Ohio
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millie Jun 2, 2005

Rita,

Thank you very much. I am very new to the web business so I guess I'm a bit insecure about it. It's funny that you noticed Clarisse and Belle. These are also two of my favorites therefore they were given special names. Clarisse is named after my cat and Belle is named after my rabbit. I do tend to name my bears after special people and four legged friends in my life. I will continue to make bears because I am addicted. I wonder if some day someone will have to start a TBA organization (Teddy Bears Anonymous).