Dreamweaver - Technical problem in HTML

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Technical problem in HTML

Joecities

2004-03-31, 7:28 am

HI all,

I am seeking help from somebody who is a master of HTML, DHTML and CSS. I
am developing a HTML web site and several technical problems bother me a
lot. I just can't solve them.

Please take a look at http://www.worldwebtalent.com and enter the html
version of the web site (not the Flash version). Now my problems are:

1. Since the website is framed, whenever I click a page from the TOC,
sometimes the page loads up as a totally white page before everything is
downloaded, which is a great annoying to my client since the white does not
match the black background. I would like to know why sometimes the page
starts up as white (I have put the background color of the page as black
already).

2. Is it possible to set the order of the images downloaded? My client
really wants to have the buttons images appear in a sequencial order. Or
instance, when you go to Web Development, the buttons

Joecities

Murray *TMM*

2004-03-31, 9:28 am

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"Joecities" <josephyu@sunanmoda.com> wrote in message
news:c4e7gv$nii$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> HI all,
>
> I am seeking help from somebody who is a master of HTML, DHTML and CSS. I
> am developing a HTML web site and several technical problems bother me a
> lot. I just can't solve them.
>
> Please take a look at http://www.worldwebtalent.com and enter the html
> version of the web site (not the Flash version). Now my problems are:
>
> 1. Since the website is framed, whenever I click a page from the TOC,
> sometimes the page loads up as a totally white page before everything is
> downloaded, which is a great annoying to my client since the white does
not
> match the black background. I would like to know why sometimes the page
> starts up as white (I have put the background color of the page as black
> already).

This is the dreaded FOUC, or Flash of Unstyled Content. It can be solved
very simply by putting a link to an external stylesheet at the top of your
<head> content.

You can read about it here - http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/fouc.asp

>
> 2. Is it possible to set the order of the images downloaded? My client
> really wants to have the buttons images appear in a sequencial order. Or
> instance, when you go to Web Development, the buttons

No. The images are fetched from the browser in the order in which they are
parsed from the page's code, reading from <html> to </html>. In addition,
smaller images may fetch faster than larger images but not necessarily so,
depending on net congestion. You could build a javascript array of these
images in the head of the document (using any of the many publicly available
'preload' scripts) to try to force the order in which they appear, but you
may not be successful.

I'd rather see you spend the time to fix the invalid code on the page, and
the layout problems you have when the browser viewport is smaller than you
anticipated, and the waste of so much screen real estate in order to use a
scrolling region, which would easily fit in the available space without a
scroll. <sigh>

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> Joecities
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