BOF Website Pictures

[Scott]

I know the unfriendliness of the BOF website to those on dial-up (or mobile broadband) connections has already been much discussed, but does anyone else feel that they are now starting to take the mick? The homepage currently has over 5MB of images on it That photo of the men's relay team is very nice, but do we really need it at 3488px by 2616px?

[besty]

but does anyone else feel that they are now starting to take the mick?

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Who do you suppose "they" are?

[Scott]

Whomever BOF are employing as web developers. Over three years into developing this site, and it appears that the CMS still doesn't do automatic thumbnailing.

[Big Jon]

A size like that suggests that whoever is loading images doesn't know much about websites and minimising photos (and I speak as someone who hasn't a clue either).

[besty]

"CMS"?

[Scott]

Content management system, which I'm presuming the BOF website uses some variety of. The (generally quite sensible) idea is to save the all the staff who need to post things from spending too much time learning the technical details (like manually resizing images).

I'm not an expert, but I've used quite a few different content management systems for various different websites that I've been involved in, and they have nearly all automatically resized images, so I find it pretty surprising the the BOF system doesn't. If nothing else, a 6MB front page can't be doing much good for BOF's bandwidth usage.

[DeerTick]

Yup. Someone has to tell them that many people will click off the site whilst waiting for the image to load.

Tick

[Blanka]

That photo of the men's relay team is very nice, but do we really need it at 3488px by 2616px?

Looks like they have listened (I emailed them and others may have done too) and the offending photo is now down to a much smaller version.

[Angry Haggis]

Seems they have gone too far the other way - I can't read the text on the WOC 2015 publicity image!

[mharky]

I was thinking the same thing...

BRITISH ORIENTEERING has a long tradition of competing in and staging successful international events. The World Championships have been staged in Great Britain twice: in 1976 and 1999.

Once again British Orienteering would like to welcome international orienteering to the challenging, interesting and various terrain found in the Highlands of Scotland

For more information contact:
Dave Peel etc...