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frontpagenovice -> need advice - page loading message? (2/10/2006 10:17:36)

One page of my website takes a long time to download as it contains a lot of text and pictures that are necessary and cannot be downsized.

Is there a temporary page or message I can create, so when someone clicks on this large page a message will pop up saying "loading, please wait" or something similar?

Any advice gratefully appreciated...



Reflect -> RE: need advice - page loading message? (2/10/2006 10:22:14)

I'm not at a computer with FP on it. Going from memory though there is. Click on the image, go to properties. Under here there is an option for a low bandwidth image alternate. I am unsure what it is specificaly called though, just poke around in that erea.

Take care,

Brian



d a v e -> RE: need advice - page loading message? (2/10/2006 12:09:02)

lowsrc="imagename.jpg"

in the image tag



frontpagenovice -> RE: need advice - page loading message? (2/10/2006 12:17:07)

All my images are already jpegs and the smallest size.

What I really want is a message that is displayed to say "please wait, page is loading" while all the images are loading.



d a v e -> RE: need advice - page loading message? (2/10/2006 12:21:13)

i think that brian was suggesting using an image for the lowsrc that is only a couple of kbs that says "please wait, page is loading". otherwise why not write it at the top of the page? also, isn't it obvoius that the page is loading? doesn't it load gradually anyway? or put a warning on links TO that page that the target page will take a while to load?



womble -> RE: need advice - page loading message? (2/10/2006 12:31:38)

A JavaScript body onload elert message?



frontpagenovice -> RE: need advice - page loading message? (2/10/2006 12:34:22)

The problem is I do already have it written at the top of the page, but it goes completely blank sometimes for up to a minute and then loads gradually and it's that blank screen I'm trying to avoid.




d a v e -> RE: need advice - page loading message? (2/10/2006 12:35:14)

quote:

elert message
that's a new one ;)



d a v e -> RE: need advice - page loading message? (2/10/2006 12:36:04)

can you post a url to the page so we can see ??



frontpagenovice -> RE: need advice - page loading message? (2/10/2006 12:37:22)

I really am a novice [:)] so that doesn't mean much to me, how do i do it?

I really appreciate everyone's help on this.



frontpagenovice -> RE: need advice - page loading message? (2/10/2006 12:38:28)

www.ambassadorautosales.com - click on the inventory page



frontpagenovice -> RE: need advice - page loading message? (2/10/2006 12:42:30)

SORRY NOT THE "INVENTORY" PAGE - IT'S THE "RECENT SALES" PAGE



d a v e -> RE: need advice - page loading message? (2/10/2006 12:44:31)

well your image are quite small - around 6k - but even considering i'm on broadband (which is being very slow at the moment anyway...) the page loads and then the images fill in so i don't see why you need any message anyway :) people can see the the text (i checked in Ie and in firefox) and the page loads all the text with image holders and the images load gradually.



frontpagenovice -> RE: need advice - page loading message? (2/10/2006 12:46:19)

oh. perhaps i am worrying unnecessarily then.

some days it's not too slow, others it seems to take forever.

cheers Dave.



dpf -> RE: need advice - page loading message? (2/10/2006 17:18:36)

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BE PATIENT - THERE ARE OVER 1,000 VEHICLES ON THIS PAGE
there is your problem!!!! that is really unadvisable.....oh my
why not show one and list the others as links? way too many pics for a single page



womble -> RE: need advice - page loading message? (2/10/2006 18:09:55)

Dan's right - that's a lot of pics for one page!

A pop-up alert's probably not the most user friendly way to do it, but you can add an alert message to the page when it opens by replacing the <body> tag with this:

<body onload="javascript: alert('Images loading - please wait...')">

(replace the text in purple with whatever message you want)

(Note to Dave: elert: an electronic alert...[;)])



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