My home page is taking too long to load the background image

[treigh]

Hi all, My home page is taking too long to load the background image and many other small rollover images that are called using CSS.

I heard not all preloader scripts are effective, please take a look at http://www.energycrew.ca and see for your self.

Any help?

[brazenskies]

loaded in about 2 seconds here

[BoldUlysses]

Loaded fairly quickly here on our crappy connection, but in any event it's more a question of image size than preloading.

You're using a 676Kb PNG for a job that should be performed by a high- or medium- quality JPG.

Try the attached file and use Imageready or Photoshop to prep the buttons and whatnot to pare them down.

[treigh]

Loaded fairly quickly here on our crappy connection, but in any event it's more a question of image size than preloading.

You're using a 676Kb PNG for a job that should be performed by a high- or medium- quality JPG.

Try the attached file and use Imageready or Photoshop to prep the buttons and whatnot to pare them down.

Thanks, I'll try that

[Scriptet]

As for rollovers you can get rid of this problem completly if you save both the normal and hover state for the button in one image underneath each other. Then on hover you change the background position to bottom, rather than changing the background image altogether.
This means the server does not have to be called and another image does not have to be loaded, resulting in instant image changeover!