Lloyd Hassell — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 07:47:00 +0000

There is a DHTML page loading script at www.brainjar.com .

Vincent Puglia — Tue, 11 Apr 2000 01:30:00 +0000

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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GrassBlade: cut&paste javascript

vy22 — Mon, 10 Apr 2000 13:30:00 +0000

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~

AndyB — Sun, 09 Apr 2000 17:06:00 +0000

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