Pre-load website graphics...?

Post by **o'dium** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:25 pm

I'm in the middle of re-making the misses site, where she sells lampwork beads and stuff like that. Anways, something came up...

The site is very slow to load, because of the pics. Doesn't make any difference either if the pics are saved in 50% compressed jpeg, it looks ugly as sin but still, wont load fast at all.

I guess what i want to know is how do i force certain pictures to load, and be saved onto the computers tempory files? I've done this in the past but it excapes me now lol.

http://www.fragglemays.com

Post by **Foo** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:34 pm

The site loaded just fine here, not slow?

Post by **o'dium** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:35 pm

Hmmm... Its quite possible my 10meg broadband is being a little twat again, but either way, i would still like the pre-loading thing

Post by **brisk** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:36 pm

same, it loads quite fast actually.

the only prob is the type, which isn't very legible atm.

Post by **Foo** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:40 pm

o'dium wrote:Hmmm... Its quite possible my 10meg broadband is being a little twat again, but either way, i would still like the pre-loading thing

What do you mean by preloading? The only kind of preloading that's useful is rollover preloading where you call the images in javascript but don't immediately implement them.

Post by **4days** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:45 pm

brisk wrote:same, it loads quite fast actually.

the only prob is the type, which isn't very legible atm.

aye, it could be damn near impossible for some people to read. loads quickly enough though.

some pre-loading stuff:
http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol6/css_no18.htm
http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/ja ... eload.html

edit: if you're using dw, you might as well use it's own preloader script.

Post by **BlueGene** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:51 pm

It needs a site redesign, use less images and make it more readable. Also work on the color theme.

Post by **Tsakali_** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:03 pm

BlueGene wrote:It needs a site redesign, use less images and make it more readable. Also work on the color theme.

yeah the main menu text color should be more readable :icon28:

Post by **Transient** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:16 am

Loads fine.

Text color could use some lovin' though.

Post by **MKJ** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:09 pm

dammit, forum flashback

i said it loads fine, you should just validate your fucking code. get to it toute suite

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:29 pm

it's bear, not bare

Post by **Kat** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:45 pm

Don't pre-load. If someone visits the site and the images take a while to load it means they look at a blank page for a while and think there's something wrong. They bugger off when that happens

Post by **LBt1st** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:50 pm

It's plenty fast but what's wth the redirect? People with javascript disabled get a blank page.