I have a question for anyone? Is it better for load time to have a photoslide show, or having the pictures displayed all the time on the page? Or is it the same? What I'm trying to accomplish is having a faster load time,and a slide show of sorts. Suggestions? Thanks in advance.
If you are using a DHTML/Javascript slideshow, you may be able to speed things up by preloading the images. This is done by executing a small script in the head section to load the images in the cache so they are already available for the slideshow when the page is displayed. For example:
<script type='text/javascript'>
<!--
if (document.images) {
preload_image_object = new Image();
// set image url
image_url = new Array();
image_url[0] = "http://mydomain.com/image0.gif";
image_url[1] = "http://mydomain.com/image1.gif";
image_url[2] = "http://mydomain.com/image2.gif";
image_url[3] = "http://mydomain.com/image3.gif";
var i = 0;
for(i=0; i<image_url.length; i++) preload_image_object.src = image_url[i];
}
//-->
</script>
Change the http://mydomain.com/image0.gif references to your actual image URL, or if it is a SS image reference, to ./image/my-image.jpg