New Main Website design
Alight, so over the past few weeks, I have been monitoring the bandwidth usage for both blog.mphwebsystems.com and the main site, mphwebsystems.com and noticed one very interesting thing. There have been approximately 1,100 hits on the main site, and there have been 3,000 hits on the blog. Now, the really interesting part is the bandwidth used by both. The main site, with 1,100 hits, used 13 MB. The blog, with 3,000 hits, used 10 MB. The theme I have used for the main site is extremely heavy, with 1600 lines of CSS, and about 20 images. The theme used for the blog is very very light and simple, thus the lower bandwidth usage. Now what this shows, is that it really makes a big difference how your website is designed.
Because of this difference, I went ahead and decided to redesign the main site. The new design has 3 images, and 251 lines of CSS, much lighter and simpler. I think the hardest part of web development is finding the balance between size and “shinyness”.