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Llew
08-14-2000, 03:53 AM
Hi,

I wonder if anyone know the answere to this ? I have a site withe a preload page (index loads some of the graphics), the referes the browser to the main page automatically. Do you think this will upset the search engines, Yahoo, spiders ect...

Thanks

Llew
Dan Kaplan
08-14-2000, 04:23 AM
I don't know of any reason why the SE's would object to preloading, but I've always wondered what the purpose is.[nbsp][nbsp]When someone visits your site, don't you want the first page they see to load as fast as possible?[nbsp][nbsp]If not, then you risk losing them after one page view.[nbsp][nbsp]Catch their interest with that first page, and slightly slower pages deeper in the site are less likely to discourage them.

I have read of drawbacks to preloading images, but I can't remember what all they are just now.[nbsp][nbsp]I think one is that you can't really control the order images are loaded, so you might be preloading images for other pages while the images of the current page are waiting to be displayed.[nbsp][nbsp]That would be far from optimal.

the referes the browser to the main page automatically If you're saying the browser is being redirected, then that will almost definitely have an adverse affect on search engine interpretation.

Dan
Dan Kaplan
08-14-2000, 07:33 PM
Ok, I wasn't thinking of that as preloading, but that makes sense.[nbsp][nbsp]Would you use the same approach if you were preloading images for subsequent pages?

Dan
Justin
08-14-2000, 08:33 PM
Yes, and I've seen it done. Place all pre-loading code in a JavaScript function, and place </font><font face="Courier" size="3">onload='Preload();'</font><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"> in the <BODY> tag. This will make the browser call that function (Preload()) only after the page has finished loading.

I would recommend having text on the page, or a splash intro of some kind... You could also set up some more JavaScript to automatically redirect once the images have finished pre-loading (rather than having a set timeout, which assumes a certain type of connection)...

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Justin Nelson
FutureQuest (http://www.FutureQuest.net/index.php) Support
Justin
08-15-2000, 01:19 AM
...you can't really control the order images are loaded... Sure you can - I do this all the time. Whenever I work with rollover images, I always load the rollovers (the ones you don't see until you hover) in the </font><font face="Courier" size="3">onload()</font><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"> event, which is called after the page loads, including images. This is done on the FutureQuest site (http://www.FutureQuest.net/index.php) as well as any site where I use rollovers... ;)

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Justin Nelson
FutureQuest (http://www.FutureQuest.net/index.php) Support