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  • April 18, 2013 at 9:10 am #44217
    Bern494
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    Hi Guys
    Not up to speed with most of you but I would appreciate some help! The actual site is to be a chronology which includes large text files and images. I don’t want a timeline so to speak.
    How would I go about making a website that shows large text files.. I have thought of XML and web storage. Can anybody give me some advice on how to achieve a page thats not going to take forever to load.

    April 18, 2013 at 9:20 am #132308
    Paulie_D
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    You have to define your terms.

    How large in kb?

    Is formatting important?

    Etc.

    April 18, 2013 at 9:34 am #132309
    Bern494
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    Hi Yes formatting will be important. The text files I have range from 1mb to 3mb

    Bern

    April 18, 2013 at 9:43 am #132310
    Paulie_D
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    That’s a heck of a lot considering that the average e-book is less than 2mb.

    April 18, 2013 at 10:31 am #132315
    __
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    When you say “text file,” do you actually mean “text”? You say formatting is important, which leads me to suspect your files may be rich text or other document formats (like .doc, etc.).

    April 18, 2013 at 3:45 pm #132361
    Bern494
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    yes they are doc files have now checked sizes they are 200kb range to 600kb 7 files

    April 19, 2013 at 12:10 pm #132448
    Bern494
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    I was sure some helpful guy on this website could help!

    Bern

    April 19, 2013 at 12:31 pm #132449
    TheDoc
    Member

    Sorry, do you actually want to *display* the DOC on the page? That’s a totally different story.

    If you just want the user to download the files, simply providing a link to the file on your server will not cause any additional load time.

    April 20, 2013 at 7:04 am #132482
    Bern494
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    To make it more simpler – 1 page bringing in (or whatever is the quickest way) 1 text file with images (size 597kb)
    I can follow suit with other pages if I can work out the best way to do it.
    I would like to make this chronology as future proof as I can (for historians)

    Thanks in advance
    Bern

    April 20, 2013 at 10:24 am #132509
    wolfcry911
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    Why wouldn’t you convert the files to html?

    you’re making it very difficult for us to help, not fully understanding what you have and what you want to accomplish…

    April 20, 2013 at 4:08 pm #132527
    Bern494
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    Converting the files to html still gives me a large file size, but is that the only way to do it?
    I want to build a Chronology website that should hopeful be future proof if possible.

    I have quite large text files, so just formatting the text into a page renders it very heavy (over 1mb)
    What I want to know is the best way to keep this file size down for quick loading. Would it be best to xml the text files or what would be the best way?

    Bern

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