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RamHost Website Design Updated
From https://forum.ramhost.us/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=686
Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:14:34 -0500
Today, we have given our website a small but much-needed facelift.
1) The old pixilated logo has been re-rendered and replaced.
2) The navigation bar has been improved.
3) The footer section is more defined and has been improved.
4) And last but not least, the html code itself has been converted from a table based layout into a more modern div and css based layout.
We have tested the new site in Internet Explorer and Firefox. Please let us know if you see any rendering issues in your browser.
Over the next several weeks we are going to be updating the styling and layout of our RamCP vps control panel software and of our billing and support ticket portal.
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RamHost
I don't like the height on the navigation bar, but it looks better now.
Dow anyone know how they get this one live source code?
@OneTwo
http://www.textfixer.com/html/compress-html-compression.php
@Asim yeah, but do they do that for every page manually?
Long overdue
@OneTwo there may be some other tool but im not aware of any
@Daniel yes, still its not much of an update ... but still it looks a bit better now
finally.. the 'fixed' the logo.. :-/
I thought @ramnet will never change that.
We use a template engine (that we developed quite some time ago) that compresses the source code on-the-fly for us. It was literally 2 files that were changed.
The old style site is still viewable by appending "theme=ramhost" to the end of each url, such as http://www.ramhost.us/?page=home&theme=ramhost
The really really really old style is still viewable at http://www.ramhost.us/?page=home&theme=ramnet as well (although it's a bit broken after 3 years of updates to everything else) :P
Thanks for the feedback everyone! :-)
@ramnet awesome, keep on updating
@ramnet thanks. where can I find the compress code?
please make the navigation bar have less height. it will sure look cooler
I've pulled the whitespace compression function from my code and posted it here:
http://pastebin.com/VvfdAYwN
With more modern versions of PHP that code can probably be optimized a bit (that particular function was written about 7 years ago and hasn't been touched since)
The webiste is really really slow from here.
@ramnet where and how can I place that?
@OneTwo I guess you dont know programming a lot
If you can't figure that out from reading the code, you probably shouldn't use it.
Pingdom reports the entire site loads in 1.35 seconds. http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/g9NnhAWyX/http://www.ramhost.us/
Would you care to post a traceroute? :-)
@ramnet I fully understand what the code is doing but I can't understand how to use it. Explain please?
If you understand what the code is doing, then using it should be trivial.
You just get your entire webpage into a string variable, pass it through the function, and echo that variable.
Basically:
$mywebpage=file_get_contents('webpage-with-lots-of-whitespace.html');
ramcms_remove_body_whitespace($mywebpage);
echo $mywebsite;
@ramnet is this what you use?
http://www.robertmarder.com/ram-cms/
RAM Host uses a somewhat modified version of that (my old ram-cms project) to power our website and our RamCP control panel software, yes.
@ramnet: Did you notice a speed increase/bandwidth decrease using that function?
Somewhat. A lot of web robots don't handle gzip http compression.
It's also handy for html source code obfuscation.
Well Pingdom isn't really representative of the average computer
Either way it probebly tested from Texas while I'm in the UK.
Pretty consistent pings of 172ms incase you were wondering.
Pingdom tested from the Netherlands.
VirginMedia has terrible routing in general (it'll route through AMS-IX to get to London-hosted sites on a regular basis). Even still it's surprising that it hands off to Comcast along the way. That's 2 crap networks it goes through :P
As am I - loads fine over Three mobile broadband as well as a BT ADSL line.