3 questions about nearly completed site

[jonathan (Jonathan Deutsch)]

@Angus_Young

First...

Other than making my images as small as I can get away with (which I will do with some housekeeping at the end), is there any way to make the site load faster. Hype seems to want to load all the scenes right at the start which means you're staring at a blank page longer than is healthy. It does mean that once this load is done the whole site is faster, but the delay in initial loading is unacceptable.

You can disable preloading in the Resource Library by selecting the image resources and unchecking the Preload option. There's other tips about speeding up your site on @daniel's Decreasing load times and optimizing performance: Preparing a Large project in Hype post.

@Angus_Young

With a responsive layout, when you make the width of the browser narrower the site resizes nicely but I end up with a large blank area at the bottom of the page. Is there anyway to not have this space at the bottom of the page when I scroll down?

From what I can tell, you are just using the Flexible Layout system. With the multiple layouts of the Responsive Layout system, you could change the layout height. We don't recommend a lot layouts, so there's probably some degree of space at the bottom that you would have.

@Angus_Young

So, what is the correct way to format a column of type so that images can me arranged to sit within the type reliably?

Short of embedding images and text within the Inner HTML of an element, there's not really a way to do this. Hype's layout system is based on absolute positioning, and doesn't provide methods to push or pull content based on sizes of siblings.

You might be able to make things work for 2 and 3 with the multiple responsive layouts, and not using flexible layout. This is an area I'd like to improve on.