Actually it's a big problem for me and it's probably just a weenie tiny
problem for someone else. That's why I'm asking:
I have a host web site and performance is always an issue as well as a
professional appearance. One of the outstanding problems with this web
site is a key page that has a full screen picture as the background. We
want it that way. Obviously this takes a short time to load but
significantly longer than the text that shows up almost immediately.
The text is supposed to overlay the picture. Since the picture download
time is greater than the text (which is supposed to overlay the
picture), for a short time, the text appears all by itself against a
flat background color. Ugh!!! The text is organized to look nice when
it overlays the picture. But for about 30 seconds to 1 minute depending
upon network congestion and bandwidth the text is there all by itself
and really looks dumb.
I need some way of stopping any kind of display until the picture
background has been displayed. Then the text and the other stuff can be
overlaid on the picture.
Is there any way (and please don't say java unless you can provide an
example) I can tell the server to serve the picture first. It's a
standard web page with table areas and content in the table areas. The
top of the web page has a table area within which the background picture
is displayed with the text overlaid on the background picture. The
remainder of the web page nicely blocks the background (except for
around the edges which is the desired affect). The web page is fairly
long so the background picture gets reproduced twice but only the top
picture is shown - as it is supposed to be. So everything is fine
except that the background picture gets displayed a significantly longer
time after everything else is displayed. Again, Ugh!!!
One idea which I really don't like, is to create another page just for
the purpose of displaying the background picture so that it is loaded
into the browser cache. Then when the page is sent which is to feature
this picture as the background it will appear much more quickly,
probably as fast as the text. This is of course the case once the page
has been fully downloaded anyway, the browser simply checks for a new
version and if it is not there it takes it from cache.
So if anyone can help me with what for me is a big unpleasant problem I
would be certainly appreciate the help. And also I won't have to keep
saying Ugh!!!
Bye-thanks_TED
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