Nathan,
Would it make sense to break this up into several documents and add a search function? You could still have a giant, one-page (and thus easily-printable) option, but maybe that wouldn't be the default.
The search feature I'm envisioning would just be a search of key words in the title of a box. A tag-cloud sort of thing might be a useful way of making some of the keywords visible too.
Ken
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Nathan Tallman
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 2:49 PM
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] HTML Load Time
Hi Cod4Libers,
I've got a LARGE finding aid that was generated from EAD. It's over 5 MB
and has caused even Notepad++ and Dreamweaver to crash. My main concern is
client-side load time. The collection is our most heavily used and the
finding aid will see a lot of traffic. I'm fairly adept with HTML, but I
can't think of anything. Does anyone have any tricks or tips to decrease
the load time? The finding aid can be viewed at <
http://www.americanjewisharchives.com/aja/FindingAids/ms0361.html>.
Thanks,
Nathan Tallman
Associate Archivist
American Jewish Archives
Received on Mon Dec 06 2010 - 17:06:18 EST