Making page load without showing anything?
I have seen this on several sites. You go to the site, and nothing happens for a sec, and then bam, everything shows up all at once. Is there some code you put for this, or what?
Thanks
Bryan
I have seen this on several sites. You go to the site, and nothing happens for a sec, and then bam, everything shows up all at once. Is there some code you put for this, or what?
Thanks
Bryan
Mark Hensler posted this at 23:25 — 2nd December 2002.
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enclose the whole site in tags
Suzanne posted this at 02:04 — 3rd December 2002.
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or use flash and don't use a preloader!
It's bad coding that does it, you really don't be wanting to do this.
jag5311 posted this at 06:59 — 3rd December 2002.
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you don't want the site to load as one, but you want it to load it bits and pieces?
The Webmistress posted this at 08:10 — 3rd December 2002.
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If some one has a very slow connection then they'd probably think that the site isn't going load and go else where, but if they see the page starting to load then they would probably wait. Best to have sites that load relatively fast any way!
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
taff posted this at 12:57 — 3rd December 2002.
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There are some graphic-intensive sites that opt for a preload script. But usually in this case there is some sort of "Loading, please wait" message.
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Suzanne posted this at 14:55 — 3rd December 2002.
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Yes, you want to have the site load in pieces. Specifically, have the text load first, so people can read it while the rest loads.
Of course, if your page is so heavy that this involves more than a second or two, you might want to rethink your page design.
Renegade posted this at 22:16 — 3rd December 2002.
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yeah, i agree with suzanne here, if i c a page that is blank for more than 3 seconds i just leave because it usually means that there's nothing there
Busy posted this at 22:22 — 3rd December 2002.
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90% of pages that take a while to load and don't have preload scripts are as Suzanne mentioned - are from bad coding. Badly nested tables and/or div's
The rest would be redirect scripts or bad flash designs
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