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Help! Slow Loading Issue-information management

rdc.arch

2007-03-05, 3:15 am

Hello all - let me start by saying i am an architetural designer, not
a web designer - but my wife is just starting a business and we can
not fford to hire a website designer so i have created www.artstudioshanti.com
- it is more of a portfolio than an online store, but eventually my
need to become an online store - also, as she adds more items the
loading gets slower because of the way i have written it - what i am
trying to achieve is a clean interface that does not reload when you
switch galleries, but simply loads the new gallery in place - i have
done this through javascript so far, but as more items are dded this
is going to get unweildy - and, if there were some way to just add
thumbs, images, and text files and have them added to the site by some
server side magic i would be very happy -

so, my question is mostly, what sshould i be researching to figure out
how to make this work? i have heard ajax and mysql thrown around but
know nothing of either - any help would be greatly appreciated!

tgscott

2007-03-06, 6:15 am

On Mar 5, 4:22 am, "rdc.arch" <rdc.a...@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote:
> Hello all - let me start by saying i am an architetural designer, not
> a web designer - but my wife is just starting a business and we can
> not fford to hire a website designer so i have createdwww.artstudioshanti.com
> - it is more of a portfolio than an online store, but eventually my
> need to become an online store - also, as she adds more items the
> loading gets slower because of the way i have written it - what i am
> trying to achieve is a clean interface that does not reload when you
> switch galleries, but simply loads the new gallery in place - i have
> done this through javascript so far, but as more items are dded this
> is going to get unweildy - and, if there were some way to just add
> thumbs, images, and text files and have them added to the site by some
> server side magic i would be very happy -
>
> so, my question is mostly, what sshould i be researching to figure out
> how to make this work? i have heard ajax and mysql thrown around but
> know nothing of either - any help would be greatly appreciated!

Yes, it sounds like employing some AJAX might be a good solution.
However, this is a CSS group, so your posting to the wrong place.

AJAX uses a combination of JS and serverside scripting to allow HTML
pages to interact with the server without completely reloading. In
your case, this could mean loading in images as and when they are
required, rather then pre-loading them all when your page is first
loaded.

You'll need to learn a little server side scripting, such as PHP,
possibly mysql too, depending on how much information you want to play
with. A Javascript library called Prototype (http://
www.prototypejs.org/) takes a lot of the hard work out of it. Do some
googling on things like "simple ajax php", "ajax getting started",
etc.

Tom

http://www.talkingpixels.co.uk/