page loading order

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Steve Easton

1. Web pages and the content they contain load in a top down order as the browser "reads" the html
and links to images etc.

2. Not really. Have you checked the page in an html validator such as the free CSE Lite?? Invalid
html ( out of sequence opening and closing tags, improperly nested tags ) will cause a page to load
slow because the browser has to figure out what goes where.

If you try a validator, correct one error at a time starting from the top of the page and working
down. Save and reload and revalidate after every change because correcting one error will often
correct another further down the page.


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eliyahu

1. My home page is getting heavy and I would like fix the order of wha
loads first. Is there a way to do this like there is in dreamweaver?

2. Will things load faster if I put each section into a new table a
compared to using one table and putting things in cells. One tabl
seems easier to work with in order to keep my page width fixed at 80
pixels.

Thank yo


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eliyah
 
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Andrew Murray

The most obvious things that makes your page slow loading are large graphic
files - make sure you optimise these in your graphics software, ie balance the
compression and image quality (even sacrifice quality for file size if need be.)
Can you tell us also the estimate download time that frontpage has in it's status
bar (near the foot of the screen above the system tray). can you give us the
figures it's saying is the download time for the various connections?

i.e. 28.8/33.3k, 56k, ISDN, and cable/DSL.

Other things that may hinder download times is the quality of your coding -
browsers interpret one line at a time and out of place or missing tags may cause
errors, or cause the browser to load the page incorrectly.


Can you post the URL to the site?
 
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