Hi. We recently changed the skin on www.chillifreeze.com and replaced it with a skin created by our own designers. Does it look good? Anyway, the big problem now is that the site takes awfully long to load! What could we be doing wrong?

 Also, the new site has lots of errors. Anyone had such problems before?

I have posted a yslow components report at http://www.chillifreeze.com/yslowR.gif that is sorted by RespTime (temporarily). The source code is below. Could someone look through the code and advise us.

Thanks in advance.

MAIN SKIN

<%@ Control language="vb" CodeBehind="~/admin/Skins/skin.vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Explicit="True" Inherits="DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="NAV" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Nav.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="USER" Src="~/Admin/Skins/User.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="LOGO" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Logo.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="TERMS" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Terms.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="LOGIN" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Login.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="SEARCH" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Search.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="PRIVACY" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Privacy.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="COPYRIGHT" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Copyright.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="BREADCRUMB" Src="~/Admin/Skins/BreadCrumb.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="TREEVIEW" Src="~/Admin/Skins/TreeViewMenu.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="CURRENTDATE" Src="~/Admin/Skins/CurrentDate.ascx" %>

<div id="skinwrapper" class="wrapper">
<p style="text-align:center; font-size: 12px; position: absolute; margin-left: 16px;">Under construction: You may experience difficulty on some sections of the site, please bear with us. Thank You.</p>
    <div id="skinheader">
        <dnn:LOGO runat="server" id="dnnLogo" />
        <div id="skinuser">
            <ul id="login">
                <li><dnn:User runat="server" id="dnnUser" CssClass="SkinItem" /></li>
                <li><dnn:Login runat="server" id="dnnLogin" CssClass="SkinItem" /></li>
            </ul>
            <dnn:Search runat="server" id="dnnSearch" CssClass="search" Submit="<img src=&quot;img/go.png&quot; alt=&quot;search&quot; />" /><!-- end skinuser -->
        </div>
    </div><!-- end skinheader -->

    <div id="skinmenu">
        <dnn:NAV
            runat="server"
            id="dnnNav"
            ProviderName="DNNMenuNavigationProvider"
            CSSControl="MainMenu_MenuBar"
            CSSContainerSub="Main_DNNMenu_ContainerSub"
            CSSNodeRoot="Main_DNNMenu_NodeRoot"
            CSSNodeHover="Main_DNNMenu_NodeHover"
            IndicateChildren="True"
            IndicateChildImageSub="action_right.gif"
        />
    </div><!-- end skinmenu -->   
    
    <div id="breadcrumb">
        <dnn:Breadcrumb runat="server" id="dnnBreadcrimb" Separator="&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;" RootLevel="0" />
        <div id="currentdate">
            <dnn:CurrentDate runat="server" id="dnnCurrentDate" Dateformat="dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy" />
        </div>
    </div><!-- end breadcrumbs -->
    
    <div id="ControlPanel" runat="server"></div>
    
    <div id="nosidebar">
        <div id="TopPane" runat="server" visible="false"></div>
    </div><!-- end bannerHome -->
    
    <div class="container wrapper">
        <table cellspacing="0" id="content">
        <!-- tables used to fix problems with the forum module. TODO Find a fix -->
            <tr><td>
                <div id="ContentPane" runat="server" visible="false"></div>
            </tr></td>
        </table><!-- end content -->       
       
        <div id="sidebar">
            <div id="RightPane" runat="server" visible="false"></div>
        </div><!-- end sidebar -->
    </div><!-- end container -->
    
    <div id="promotion" class="wrapper">
        <div id="Promotion" runat="server" visible="false"></div>
    </div>
</div><!-- end skinwrapper -->

<div id="footer" class="wrapper">
    <div id="footer-left">
        <dnn:Copyright runat="server" id="dnnCopyright" CssClass="andcopy" />
    </div>
    <div id="footer-right">
        <ul id="sidemap">
            <li><a href="http://chillifreeze.com/ContactUs/tabid/445/Default.aspx">Contact Us</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://chillifreeze.com/FAQs/tabid/432/Default.aspx">FAQs</a> |</li>
            <li><a href="http://chillifreeze.com/SiteMap/tabid/133/Default.aspx">Sitemap</a> |</li>
            <li><a href="http://chillifreeze.com/QuickGuide/tabid/138/Default.aspx">Help</a> |</li>
            <li><a href="http://chillifreeze.com/AboutUs/tabid/84/Default.aspx">About Us</a> |</li>   
        </ul>
        <div id="privacy">
            <dnn:Terms runat="server" id="dnnTerms" CssClass="privy" /> | <dnn:Privacy runat="server" id="dnnPrivacy" CssClass="terms" /> | <a href="http://www.360flat.com/" class="flat" target="_blank">Skin design: 360flat.com</a>
        </div>   
    </div>
</div><!-- end of footer -->


MAIN CONTAINER
<%@ Control language="vb" CodeBehind="~/admin/Containers/container.vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Explicit="True" Inherits="DotNetNuke.UI.Containers.Container" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="TITLE" Src="~/Admin/Containers/Title.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="ICON" Src="~/Admin/Containers/Icon.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="ACTIONS" Src="~/Admin/Containers/Actions.ascx" %>


<dnn:Actions runat="server" id="dnnActions" ProviderName="DNNMenuNavigationProvider" ExpandDepth="1" PopulateNodesFromClient="True" />
<dnn:Icon runat="server" id="dnnIcon" />
<h1><dnn:Title runat="server" id="dnnTITLE" CssClass="heading_01" /></h1>

<div id="ContentPane" runat="server"></div>

BOX
<%@ Control language="vb" CodeBehind="~/admin/Containers/container.vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Explicit="True" Inherits="DotNetNuke.UI.Containers.Container" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="TITLE" Src="~/Admin/Containers/Title.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="ICON" Src="~/Admin/Containers/Icon.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="ACTIONS" Src="~/Admin/Containers/Actions.ascx" %>

<div class="box">
    <div class="bi">
        <div class="bt"><div></div></div>
            <dnn:Actions runat="server" id="dnnActions" ProviderName="DNNMenuNavigationProvider" ExpandDepth="1" PopulateNodesFromClient="True" />
            <dnn:Icon runat="server" id="dnnIcon" />
            <h3><dnn:Title runat="server" id="dnnTITLE" CssClass="heading_03" /></h3>
           
            <div id="ContentPane" runat="server"></div>
        <div class="bb"><div></div></div>
    </div>
</div>   

MEDIA CONTAINER
<%@ Control language="vb" CodeBehind="~/admin/Containers/container.vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Explicit="True" Inherits="DotNetNuke.UI.Containers.Container" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="ICON" Src="~/Admin/Containers/Icon.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="ACTIONS" Src="~/Admin/Containers/Actions.ascx" %>

<div id="container-left">
    <div id="container-right">
        <dnn:Actions runat="server" id="dnnActions" ProviderName="DNNMenuNavigationProvider" ExpandDepth="1" PopulateNodesFromClient="True" />
        <dnn:Icon runat="server" id="dnnIcon" />

        <div id="ContentPane" runat="server"></div>
    </div>
</div>

Granted there are one two large image, but the rest of the site loads preety quick on our development system.

I am checking for networking problems with our host. In fact I just sent them a tracert log which looks good to me :(

I saw the illegal characher code you mentioned while using firebug. I also noticed that DNN does not have a default charset specified in the meta tags so I added one "utf-8" but that did not solve the problem. Anyway's I let it remain there since it is a good pracitce.

This post got me thinking again. So here is what solved the javascript error problem in firebug  but not in webdeveloper toolbar

I recently started using Blowery Compression --- so what I did was to exclude the file that was causing the problem in this case ScriptResource.axd and bingo! no more errors in firebug. I looked at the webdeveloper toolbar and my excitement vanished. I know know what is causing the problem but cannot figure a way to solve it.

The line error is always no. 1 and this is what is in line no. 1

//----------------------------------------------------------

At a glance this looks like a character encoding problem but how do I fix this or how do I get to the referenced file i.e.
http://www.chillifreeze.com/ScriptResource.axd?d=Np3ZIM3rud5hgyXKZbvPKL3AtFt96NVvX02_eCkKJxbVI3yKf9aXZDsltCHeiTHduGzMpI-2IKmNoqRAO48YiAPYLqeF6dw80&t=633109352696406250

Many thanks,