thumbnails

[Aradon]

Hi everyone,

I am having problems with a thumbnail gallery, i am using Dynamic Drives Image Thumbnail Viewer II, i am having no problems with the script (as you will see) but the speed at which the thumbnails load is particularly painfull.

I have already tried using Yes and No with the following:

//Preload images ("yes" or "no"):
var preloadimg="no"

But this just speeds up the loading of the site template, the tumbnail images still take an age to appear.

Please click here to view the page and see for your self.

If anyone can give me a solution to speeding up the load times of the thumbnails then i would be very gratefull.

Thanks in advance.

Ryan

[Aradon]

Thanks to eveyone for their valuable advice, however i have rectified the matter myself

[mwinter]

If anyone can give me a solution to speeding up the load times of the thumbnails then i would be very gratefull.

Unless you're willing to buy broadband for all of your visitors you can't. You might be able to squeeze a kilobyte or two (maybe even several ) by compressing your images, but there's little to be done beyond that.

Please be aware that "preloading" doesn't mean "load faster"; it means "load before needed". The idea is that by the time the image is wanted, it's already in the browser cache.

Mike