Tips for low resources

[Golden Arceus]

Hi wonderful people of PC.

I'm not completely new to designing web pages but I'm sure as hell not a pro either. Anyways, I'm in the process of developing a Pokémon fan site for low resource fans who browse on slower, smaller, devices such as the DS PSP Phones and PDAs.

The help I'd really like are some tips to keep loading times to a minimum.

Already my main page loads in approximately 2-3 seconds on the official DS browser (which, if you've used that device you'd know thats very quick), but after adding a few news stories I'm afraid of that dropping. The forum attached to it loads the main section in about 6 seconds but without removing the ads (which isn't financially possible right now) I can't think of any way to bring it down..

Any help you can give would be really awesome.

 

[Eon-Rider]

Well, the only thing I can currently think of is to reduce the size of all images you have. Also, try to make the look of your website as simple as possible.

 

[Golden Arceus]

thanks everyone ill try to keep that in mind

 

[Geometric-sama]

Use CSS for styling and layouts instead of images, but don't do anything fancy. Keep your navigation to a minimum, place it at the top of your page. No images unless really necessary; link to them instead of embedding them if they're to illustrate a page. I started making a Pokémon site for use on mobile devices a long time ago, but never finished; good luck with yours.

 

[aRedMoon]

Use clean code. That's a great idea too =D