Pictures downloading on my webpage

[Jayson Gillham]

When I visit a website I have just created in Word, before the pictures are
downloaded there are these squares where the pictures would go and I want to
get rid of them. I just want a blank white page before the pictures are
downloaded, like most other websites. Is that possible in Word?

I hope you understand what I mean. If not, maybe visit
www.jaysongillham.com and see for yourself.

 

[Dian D. Chapman, MVP]

that's just the way the designated areas appear prior to the photos
displaying. However, I suspect that the reason for the short delay and
subsequent X being displayed may be that the original photos you have
uploaded for inclusion are quite large??? If that is the case...even
though they appear smaller on the actual page due to resizing, you may
not have actually resized the photo itself. This would mean that the
page takes a few seconds to render the image. Depending on the speed
of the user's bandwidth to view the page, it could display the X photo
location indicators for several seconds before the photos are
displayed.

Since you created the page in Word, it's hard to tell you how to fix
the problem, since Word is not a true web editor and doesn't allow
many of the normal fixes that web dev might use. However, if you do
know that the original photos are larger than the images you are
displaying...then I would suggest you use a graphics program to resize
the actual photo so it is smaller and will load on the page
faster...thus not displaying the X images too long.

You can check out this article I wrote on Photo Resizing to get some
help in that area...

Edit Digital Photos
http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=142

A trick that web devs use to preload images faster is to add them to
the page in a hidden location as a 1 x 1 pixel image. Even though the
photo is extremely tiny, it will properly resize when cached into the
photo location. However, that is a trick that I doubt you'll be able
to utilize using Word as your editor.

Here's another TechTrax article I wrote on HTML regarding Photos that
might help you understand photo use on the web a bit more.

Learning HTML: Dealing with Images
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=57

Good luck!

Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant
Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified
Editor/TechTrax Ezine

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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:17:03 -0800, "Jayson Gillham" <Jayson