Why do the images on my web site load so slowly?

[Lattman]

I knew there was something wrong with that...Say I have the following HTML, how can I fix the errors in the code? Thx

</STYLE>
<DIV id=Apron-Button>
<A href="\index_files\aprons.htm" target="FRAME1"><center>aprons</center></A>
</DIV>

[Twey]

It should be:

</style>
<div id="Apron-Button">
<a href="/index_files/aprons.htm" target="FRAME1"><p style="text-align:center;">aprons</p></a>
</div>

Although a better idea would be to apply text-align:center; to #Apron-Button.

[Lattman]

Hmmm...Problem is the pictures still load slowly now that I fixed the backslash issue...+ when I load the housekeeping section, 1st picture on the top always has a line on it...weird...

Thx for all your help...If I may just ask one last tip before I do my "homework", what seems to be the issue with the pictures loading slowly, any way I can have them load progressively or something, so that we don't get the missing link icon before the pictures load?

Thx again!

[Twey]

They don't load slowly at all for me; perfectly normal.

any way I can have them load progressively or something

What you're talking about is called "interlacing," and it's possible with GIF and PNG images, but not, to the best of my knowledge, with JPEG.

[NXArmada]

Load fine here

[mwinter]

Firefox appears to have stepped down slightly on this position; when I first used it, it wouldn't even load a page with a backslash in the URL. Now, it seems, it tries it as a directory seperator.

Not so. It just silently percent-encodes the backslashes. That's why it doesn't resolve relative URIs in the way OP hoped. IE, on the other hand, converts backslashes to forward slashes before sending the request.

<a href="/index_files/aprons.htm" target="FRAME1"><p style="text-align:center;">aprons</p></a>

A paragraph within a link?!


To the OP: I really isn't a good idea to use MS Office products to produce HTML. They generate the most vulgar markup.

Mike

[Twey]

A paragraph within a link?!

Ouch, yes, good point.

</style>
<div id="Apron-Button">
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="/index_files/aprons.htm" target="FRAME1">aprons</a></p>
</div>

Not so. It just silently percent-encodes the backslashes.

Ah -- IIS then handles them?

[mwinter]

Not so. It just silently percent-encodes the backslashes.

Ah -- IIS then handles them?

Presumably. I edited a comment along those lines out of post as I couldn't remember exactly what form the original link URIs took. If they were,

&#160;&#160;\index_files\aprons.htm

and the like, then yes, IIS does either map them to forward slashes, or to the filesystem directly, rather than doing the proper thing and returning a 404 status code.

Mike

[Lattman]

At this point, I believe I've eliminated much of the bugs, the only thing I don't like is the fact that I get the broken link icon a slit second before a picture loads...Is there a possibility I can get ride of this?

Thx!

[Brochures]

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