I’m curious. I just had my 2nd teammate move their website and blog over to a mac.com address. I can understand why people do that… but…
I have found that the sites hosted there load *much* slower than any other host. I’m curious… are they slow for you too?
I’m guessing that it is similar to why sites that were created with the [now discontinued] MS Frontpage were so slow to load. I don’t know how it works as I’ve never built a website on a Mac… but my guess is that there is a pretty sweet What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) tool that you drop all your content into and then when you up it to mac.com it will create all the links and put the stuff in the right folders, etc. Super user friendly… but not super efficient on the back end.
Maybe nobody cares… and maybe nobody else is seeing this… but I have this issue on *every* mac.com site that I visit.
The sites themselves are excellent and should be included in your Taiwan/Bookmarks… [ or Taiwan/Favorites if you are still using Internet Explorer even after my advice to the contrary 
]
Here are the sites… check ‘em out and learn more about our work and about Taiwan!
NOTE: In general… the Apple websites are BLAZING FAST for me. The movie trailers and other stuff is fast… just the web.mac.com hosted sites are slow. Strange.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Michelle // Dec 30, 2006 at 11:52 pm
I created a .mac site for Sunbeam. It comes up great on my computer when I connect, but it’s really slow on PCs and the format actually changes. I have pictures and text that overlap when they weren’t created that way. It’s been frustrating, but it was so easy to do that I don’t want to start over somewhere else. If you could get this problem fixed it would help me out. =)
2 Jon Ralls // Dec 31, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Scott,
I think part of the problem of stuff not showing right is which browser is used. I have also found that unless I have a page somewhat cached, it doesn’t seem to be blazing fast. Not sure what the issue is, but it is fast enough for the cool page layouts that iWeb can offer for the designing/programming challenged. I use iWeb to do the design work and then I publish using a different FTP program to a different isp.
Blessings,
Jon
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