Page Loading Issue

101homeaccents · #1 21-Sep-2003, 22:27

Hi everyone,

This is my first time in the web design forum.

My question is about website page loading issue:

Everytime I visit my website, I see the top part loads first (Logo, Buttons, and imager banner); then after a few seconds I see the rest of the page suddenly.

I thought I should see the text first, since they load faster than images.

Why is my website the other way around?

How to change the order of page loading?

Should I use preload images javascript, and what is the script?

I don't know how fast my website open and I know it depends on what ISP I use. But Is it too slow for you to see the complete page?

I use IE, and I don't what my website look like on Netscape or other browers. Do you use those browers? Does my website look normal on them?

Thank you. 8-)

www.101homeaccents.com

jrobbio · #2 22-Sep-2003, 10:50

First I wanted to say that your site looks absolutely find in Mozilla Firebird, which uses the Gecko engine and so will appear the same as in Netscape 7.1.

As long as your site uses valid standardised HTML then it will work across every browser (unless your code is too advanced for IE

). Here's a couple of errors you should check out:

Code:

    * Line 89, character 102:

... Accents ~</b></a><br><i>There’s nothing more luscious than i ...
                                 ^

      Error: illegal character number 146
    * Line 109, character 114:

... ="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="1"  ...
                                 ^

      Error: there is no attribute HSPACE for this element (in this HTML version)
    * Line 109, character 125:

... height="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="1" scrolling=" ...
                                 ^

      Error: there is no attribute VSPACE for this element (in this HTML version)
    * Line 110, character 19:

<layer visibility=hide>
                  ^

      Error: there is no attribute VISIBILITY for this element (in this HTML version)
    * Line 110, character 23:

<layer visibility=hide>
                      ^

      Error: element LAYER not defined in this HTML version

Your site loaded up nicely for me but I have noticed that a lot of your images are badly optimised with the seasons.gif being 36kb. Change that to a jpg with about 80-85% quality and you shouldn't be able to notice the difference, but will save a lot of space. The same goes for a lot of your thumbnail images that you have chosen gif instead of jpg. Remember this that jpg can handle photo quality images a lot better than gifs, but for any other occasion use gifs (or png's but I'll leave that one for now).

If you want any help with this, PM me.

Rob

jrobbio · #3 22-Sep-2003, 11:08

I've attached a couple of altered images to display what I was discussing. I've changed the main header to a jpg, a thumbnail to a jpg and a gif to a png (although it isn't very optimised since I need my other computer for it). Let me know what you think. Oh and the jpg's are at 80% quality.

Rob

101homeaccents · #4 22-Sep-2003, 15:10

Hi Rob,

Thank you for your images! I love the seasons.jpg

the size is much smaller and the quality is still good.

Did you use Photoshop to modify the images?

Ryan

101homeaccents · #5 22-Sep-2003, 15:13

BTW, what HTML validator did you use?

jrobbio · #6 22-Sep-2003, 16:58

I would have used Fireworks on my other computer, but this one has the gimp (www.gimp.org) and is completely free and available for Linux and Windows.

I used http://www.htmlhelp.com 's validator since the error on line 89 wouldn't let me use the W3C one http://validator.w3.org/

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Page Loading Issue

some examples for you

Thank you