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MS Office Forum / Publisher / Web Design / April 2008Internet Explorer Preloads Photos, How Do I Stop This?
I have created my new website for my photography company using Adobe Dreamweaver. The test site is http://www.ecdillc.com/ecp/elkcreekphotography.html When I test my new site in Firefox, it works exactly as I expect. It loads the home page fast in about 8 seconds. When I select on one of the tabs, then, and only then, do the photos get loaded for viewing. When I run the same test on Internet Explorer, IE preloads all of the photos before displaying the home page. The page take anywhere from 35 seconds to 120 seconds to load depending on the ISP provider speed. I want to get IE to stop preloading the photos and run the same way Firefox does. Is there anything I can do to prevent IE from loading the photos and waiting until an individual page is selected before photos are downloaded??  SignatureDaniel P. Richmeier Elk Creek Photography But you're home page is one giant 1200xwhatever image...this is not how to design a page. Nothing on your homepage will be visible to search engines because it's a giant image of about 344K ...not good. Plus most viewers are going to hate scrolling left/right to view that page...after waiting for it to dl....they'll be gone in 10 seconds. Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rob Giordano Microsoft MVP Expression | I have created my new website for my photography company using Adobe | Dreamweaver. The test site is [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] | anything I can do to prevent IE from loading the photos and waiting until an | individual page is selected before photos are downloaded?? Rob, Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately, I did not ask you to critique my website or my website design. What I asked is if there was a way to stop Internet Explorer from preloading all of the photos on each of the webpages up front, similar to the way it is handled by Firefox. If you are unable to answer the question posed, please do not post a response. I have already had several clients and other professional photographers review the website and they all like it. SignatureDaniel P. Richmeier Elk Creek Photography > But you're home page is one giant 1200xwhatever image...this is not how to > design a page. [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > an > | individual page is selected before photos are downloaded?? Well, add my vote to not liking it. It loads way too slowly, it is way too wide, and the images need to be optimized for the web. You may know something about photography, but you are proving that you know little about webdesign. Look at the following link: http://www.ecdillc.com/ecp/Images/ECP_Main_0308.jpg That is your text in the form of an image. The webots cannot read or index the text because there isn't any. Furthermore you are in a Publisher group. How do you expect to get help with a Dreamweaver site here? And when you do find the correct group I suggest you loose the attitude and be a bit more open to feedback. What is the point of having a website if it is as dysfunctional as yours is? Have a good day. DavidF > Rob, > [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] >> an >> | individual page is selected before photos are downloaded?? David, Well, I guess it is impossible to get a response to my original question. I see no point in continuing to be badgered about website design. If I was a medium, large, or even corporate structure, I may be concerned about search engines and the ability of webots to read or index my website. To be honest, 90 to 95% of business in the professional photography business comes from referrals, not search engines. I have a website to demonstrate my ability to take professional level photographs, not the ability to create text for a webot to read. After reading Rob's response, it became clear that my post was in the wrong place. I have attempted to delete the post, but like my abilities at web design, this simple issue evades me. It is clear that you are a web design expert, however, both you and Rob seem unable to understand and respond to a request for an answer and not a critique. Please explain to me how I can either delete the post or move the post to a more appropriate location and I will be more than happy to do so. Otherwise, please refrain from adding comments that are neither requested or helpful in the least. SignatureDaniel P. Richmeier Elk Creek Photography > Well, add my vote to not liking it. It loads way too slowly, it is way too > wide, and the images need to be optimized for the web. You may know [quoted text clipped - 59 lines] > >> an > >> | individual page is selected before photos are downloaded?? You just aren't getting it are you? The comments about the text being converted to an image IS the answer you are seeking. The reason your page loads differently in FF is that FF loads the image of your text incrementally. In IE it waits and loads the image all at once after it has been downloaded to the local computer. Both browsers are loading the image of your text...not the text. If you want text to load in a similar way as it does in FF, then you need to avoid converting it to an image. And no, I am not an expert web designer. I am just a small business person like yourself that tries to help people here that want to help themselves. You apparently aren't part of that group so I won't waste any more time on you. Find a Dreamweaver group and post your question there and be prepared to get the same basic answers you are getting here. Good luck. DavidF > David, > [quoted text clipped - 106 lines] >> >> an >> >> | individual page is selected before photos are downloaded?? David...he will search and search for the answers he wants to hear. Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rob Giordano Microsoft MVP Expression | You just aren't getting it are you? The comments about the text being | converted to an image IS the answer you are seeking. [quoted text clipped - 126 lines] | >> >> an | >> >> | individual page is selected before photos are downloaded?? The answer is NO. The question about deleting posts is also NO - you can't they are out here in the ether forever. And your website will suffer by your own hand and attitude...no matter how dear it seems to you at the moment...it's a bad design by any standards. But, you will find that out on your own. There are lots of Dreamweaver forums and newsgroups out there, but I suspect with your attitude you won't learn anything there either. Plonk. Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rob Giordano Microsoft MVP Expression | David, | [quoted text clipped - 81 lines] | > >> an | > >> | individual page is selected before photos are downloaded?? I've always heard that a bad web site is worse than no site at all. Sort of like sitting in a conference and not saying anything may lead some people to think you are dumb. That's better than opening your mouth to speak and proving they are right. Mike > David, > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Otherwise, please refrain from adding comments that are neither requested or > helpful in the least. |
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