Anja has gotten rid of the sidewinder design on the front page of her weblog, as the index.html file has become too big.
I shamelessly imitated her design back in 12/2003. My index.php file hit the 200KB mark from day one. I chopped it to display only six months of entries back in 2/2004, and right now it’s only ~70KB gzipped (but still close to 400KB plain text/html!) I must say I am quite pleased with what I have right now.
Size of the front page may be one of the reasons why the sidewinder design (being such a brilliant idea) has not caught on.
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1 James Mok // Apr 15, 2004 at 9:32 am
I like the idea too, but purhaps just a 4 month page + a monthly archive list instead of your curent 6 month page is already plenty to read. That should further cut down the loading time.
A friend from Ireland just came back for a holiday mentioned that while the rest of Europe either prefer Cable modem or switching to Powerline modem, or just skip them all together and go streight to fibre optics, where he lives has nothing. So he is stuck with 56K modem still.