BEST WAY TO BROWSE CTAS WEBSITE:

This guide is not only for viewing the CTAS web site optimally but also for viewing any web page in general.

CTAS SIZE DETAILS (Page Wise) & Approximate Download Time (with 56 Kbps Modem Connection)

  1. Index Page (Homepage) : 165 K (24 Seconds)
  2. About Bhutan (Links) : 20 K (3 Seconds)
  3. Background : 90 K (13 Seconds)
  4. Mission : 53 K (8 Seconds)
  5. Campus : 96 K (14 Seconds)
  6. Staff : 52 K (8 Seconds)
  7. Students : 77 K (11 Seconds)
  8. Courses : 165 K (24 Seconds)
  9. Main Gallery : 82 K (12 Seconds)
  10. Bhutan Gallery : 263 K (38 Seconds)
  11. Campus Gallery : 170 K (25 Seconds)
  12. Rimo Gallery : 193 K (28 Seconds)
  13. Patra Gallery : 159 K (23 Seconds)
  14. Thangka Gallery : 168 K (24 Seconds)
  15. Students' Works Gallery : 274 K (40 Seconds)
  16. Students' Lives Gallery : 209 K (30 Seconds)
  17. Video Medium Quality (12 Minutes long) : 25 MB (Megabytes)...recommended or Broadband connections
  18. Video High Quality (12 Minutes long) : 48 MB (Megabytes)...recommended for higher speed Broadband connections
  19. Acknowledgements : 22 K (4 Seconds)
  20. Support Us : 21 K (3 Seconds)
  21. Contact Us : 20 K (3 Seconds)

For broadband connections with more than 8Mbps speed, the download time is almost real time i.e. instantly appearing after clicking the links except the two video files. This web site is hosted by one of the top web servers in the world located in Los Angeles that has 99.97% of uptime and a speed of 2 Gigabit feeds provided by InterNap and Verio. So there is little chance of causes of slow display from the server and the design side, especially when it comes to broadband connections. For modem connections too, the display time should not be longer than 1 minute for 56 kbps and above speed connections.

Other Common Causes of Display Error and Slow Loading Time:

  1. Your Internet Explorer is too old and not updated (latest versions are freely available for download).
  2. You don't have the latest Flash player and other graphic plugins (Freely available for download).
  3. You store unknowingly lots of temporary internet files thereby taking lots of space, (especially disadvantageous for computers with small disk capacity).
  4. Your computer is infected with a browser related virus, or spywares, adwares etc.
  5. Your PC does not have good display adapter.
  6. For dial up connections in some countries, your ISP has comparatively low bandwidth with activities of traffic considerably affecting the speed of intenet connections.
  7. Your PC itself is old (less than 64MB Memory with less than 300 Mhz speed).

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO MAXIMIZE YOUR DOWNLOAD TIME:

You must be seeing lots of commercials on the web claiming to increase the speed of your computer and internet and so on. It is suggested never to go for any of them. It has more harmful strings attached than the benefits. There is no way to increase the speed of your computer besides the RAM and Processor capacity and the internet connections speed. Rather, you can try to get the best out of what your PC already has. Download the latest version of Internet Explorer or the browser that you are using. It is freely available for download and takes about 13 MB on average of your disk space. Compared to the advantages of having the latest internet browser, you shouldn't be worried about the space at all.

The latest Internet Explorer normally comes with the built-in plugins related to ActiveX Controls (for displaying Flash contents etc). However it is recommended to download the latest Flash Player. This is only about 700Kb. So space is not a problem at all.

It is also recommended to avoid using screensavers and wallpaper with big size on your desktop unless you really have to. They normally take some of your memory.

Clear your temporary internet files often. This is very important. While this may be not advantageous if you are viewing the web page repeatedly from a slow modem connection, it is still suggested that you clear them to free valuable space from your hard disk. In simplest way, you can easily clean them with your Internet Explorer itself. Right Click on your Internet Explorer icon on your desktop and select "Properties". Then when the Properties dialogue box opens, under the "General" category (where you normally change the homepage), you can see two other buttons called "Delete Cookies" and "Delete Files" click them one by one and clean the files. When you see the option of "Delete all offline files" check that box and click "OK". Optionally, you can also clean your history by clicking on "Clear History". However, if you clean this, then all your recorded web addresses will not be available from the Address bar.

You can also use some of the good windows cleaner software like Windows Washer which can wash all your unneeded files safely. For the more advanced computer users, you can use registry tools to clean and update the registry.

Update your Anti-virus software and keep your PC free of viruses and other worms, spywares and adwares as far as possible.

Please note that CTAS site is enabled for graphics enabled browsers only. Internet version 4 and below and earlier version of Netscape may face error display as they cannot support displaying sites designed with layers.

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