Busy — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 22:22:29 +0000

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

Renegade — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 22:16:02 +0000

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

Suzanne — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 14:55:14 +0000

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.

taff — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 12:57:13 +0000

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.

The Webmistress — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 08:10:06 +0000

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!

jag5311 — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 06:59:26 +0000

you don't want the site to load as one, but you want it to load it bits and pieces?

Suzanne — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 02:04:05 +0000

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.

Mark Hensler — Mon, 02 Dec 2002 23:25:45 +0000

enclose the whole site in tags