Can anyone help me please???
Hi guys and gals.... I'll be honest with you all. I've just started trying to put together a website and well it's not going to well.
I've been doing graphic design and stuff of the sort for so long, but I never tried to put pages together and well I have a great background that I really dont want to get rid of, but it takes almost a minute and a half to load up.
I've tried saving it as a .gif but that didnt help much. The background is a huge 800x600 image and well my question is, I've seen a loading script around that will come up and let everyone know the page is loading and vanishes when it's done. I just dont know where to find it and well as I said I'm new to web design so I cant write one for myself.
If anyone can help me I would greatly appreaciate it. Kindly email any replies to me at [email protected].
Thanks,
Jayson
AndyB posted this at 17:06 — 9th April 2000.
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Couple of things to think about...
So what happens when someone with a monitor size that's bigger than 800 by 600 comes along??
If I visited a site that began by saying ... loading, please come back in 90 seconds .. that would be the last time you saw me
Depending on the image itself, a jpg version may be a smaller file size. There are all sorts of online image compression sites:
http://www.netmechanic.com/accelerate.htm
is one you can try. But you may not be happy with the image quality by the time you have the image file size compressed enough that it all loads in under ten seconds at 28.8 k, for example
vy22 posted this at 13:30 — 10th April 2000.
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Jayson.
I have noticed that tinting a background image reduces the size dramatically. Try adjusting the contrast and brightness in a graphics package and watch those bytes drop!
Also use a <bgproperties=fixed> attrib so that it does not tile. It will still tile in larger resolutions of course but there is nothing you can do about that except make the image 1024x768
~Vy~
Vincent Puglia posted this at 01:30 — 11th April 2000.
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Hi,
I agree with AndyB: consider different screens and reconsider using a "Still Loading" script (which is probably something like:
while (loading pic)
write message
Instead consider cutting your image into pieces. Then you can load each piece -- jigsaw like -- and at least the user will be entertained and get a preview.
Vinny
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Lloyd Hassell posted this at 07:47 — 13th April 2000.
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There is a DHTML page loading script at www.brainjar.com .
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