GrafX2 v2.4 WIP, a graphical bitmap editor by Pulkomandy (http://www.genesis8bit.com/index.php#grafx2-v2-4-bitmap-editor-wip)
23 June 2012, 3:09 pm
GrafX2 v2.4 WIP, a graphical bitmap editor by Pulkomandy
Source: Genesis8 Amstrad Page (http://www.genesis8bit.com/index.php)
This is so lovely it makes me wish I was a pixel artist...
I'm still not that big a fan of it but I can see why others are.
That Genesis8 site though seems to freeze up my computer for a while anytime I click on those links to go there.
Yeah, it loads very slowly on mine too, and I don't even dare open it on my netbook :(
Quote from: Gryzor on 12:40, 26 June 12
Yeah, it loads very slowly on mine too, and I don't even dare open it on my netbook :(
I am aware of the problem since a moment, 2 in fact :
- google plus button
- image loading of youtube video (fixed image before you press play on a video).
It's my fault, I use noscript in firefox so it's always fast for me...
Without the 2 of them, the index.php which is loaded fully when you click on a link there, it takes only 4-5 seconds to load (2,2 on genesis8bit.fr, see below).
With youtube preloading and without google plus button : about 10 seconds (doh 10 seconds too on the .fr).
With youtube and plus button : about 20-25 seconds... (thanks to firebug + yslow/pagespeed which I use since about 1 month).
So right now, I desactivated the google button. I was going to do it this week, but your message "forced" (not really) to do it just a bit earlier.
The good news, in a future not too far away, the site wont use anymore a redirection from genesis8bit.com to genesis8.free.fr, but directly to the domain www dot genesis8bit dot fr.
You can already try this new address, but sometimes the database of news isnt updated like genesis8.free.fr.
On this domain I can use gzip compression on html/php, url rewriting, expires date (that means images are cached in your IE/Firefox/Chrome/Opera cache : speeding loading.
I will have a sub-domain images.genesis8bit.fr (for faster image loading) and m.genesis8bit.fr for smartphone (no youtube preview, no goggle button), etc...
genesis8.free.fr is only php4, whereas genesis8bit.fr is php 5, a whole new wolrd is opening for me. :-)
I think it's also got to do with the fact that everything is on one page. Just a thought, why not use a blogging platform?
Quote from: Gryzor on 19:00, 26 June 12
I think it's also got to do with the fact that everything is on one page. Just a thought, why not use a blogging platform?
Indeed for the whole page.
I prefer not using a blogging platform and continuing to write my own html/php code and learn more things by doing it.
Soon the RSS will link to a permanent link with only the news showed (it will be linked to /archives/index.php), not anymore to index.php#tag-of-the-news.
Quote from: genesis8 on 19:11, 26 June 12
Indeed for the whole page.
I prefer not using a blogging platform and continuing to write my own html/php code and learn more things by doing it.
Soon the RSS will link to a permanent link with only the news showed (it will be linked to /archives/index.php), not anymore to index.php#tag-of-the-news.
Well, that'll be much better; like a manual blogging platform ;)
As I previously wrote, no more fear of clicking on my news links (for future links only though) : the link print only this one news, not anymore the index of the web site. So it will be blazingly fast.
To make things faster, I will soon use zend_cache from the Zend framework (only possible on genesis8bit.fr which permits php 5.x, not on genesis8.free.fr with only php 4). It's a nice feature which can cache SQL queries and pages of course.
Just saw this. Good news :)