The New Gearspeed Motorsports Project

Around Thursday, my old college buddy, Kevin, who owns a motorsports shop in Muntinlupa asked me to overhaul his company website, which is http://gearspeedmotorsports.com.

I immediately agree to do the task even it has been years I coded a website, both through the wonders of Dreamweaver and a notepad. I browsed the website and the first thing I noticed is the site is one big flash file. I downloaded the site and it is a whopping 10MB. With today’s internet speed, a 10MB flash file loads in a faster pace but not immediately. Still, the site should load  because there are only 2 kinds of viewer of your site, the one who really in need to view your site even if it loads forever, and the other one who can click another site to view.

My challenge is to decrease the site size, so I suggested to Kev to have the site done in Dreamweaver and add some flash animations on each page banners. I designed the first layouts of his  site a while ago and already emailed to him. I hope Kev likes the layout, and good thing the deadline he provided is not urgent. Hopefully he approves the layout and I will start coding and author it within the week, after office work, that is.