coathanger007

Is there a way in which I can control which web page elements load up first. I want banners to load up last.

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X-Istence

No there is not, but with FireBird you can stop banners from loading at all.

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coathanger007

I was actually referring to banners on my own website...oh well

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arson_nick

You could make a transistion page that would pre-load the banners.

coathanger007

This would force banners to load up first. I'd rather they load up last so viewers won't be turned away early. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

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arson_nick

Okay, I missed that "last" part. You could pre-load your images then, and the text should be fast. I'm guessing you could load the banners as hidden/invisible, then make them visible on a timer, but I wouldn't be the one to ask about the code itself. If all else fails, just host the banners on a really slow server

coathanger007

How do you pre=load images? Don't quite understand :confused:

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Henyman

host the banners on 56k

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coathanger007

Unfortunately the banner exchanges host the banners. To do it myself, I'd need to load banners on a separate page which leads to problems above. Does anyone know how to code loading delay???

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arson_nick

Pre-load images
http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/preloadimage.htm

Timer
http://www.intranetjournal.com/ix/msg/38670.html

If the banners are actual images then you could do a simple image switch, otherwise you'll have to execute the banner script from within the pause. You should make sure the lack of banners when the page first loads doesn't force any of the contents to shift when they do load.

coathanger007

Looks like this will work..will implement at next given opportunity. Thanks heaps arson_nick

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arson_nick

You're quite welcome.