Loading a page

[aussieoak]

I have a web site and I want to add a "loading" symbol on the home page like I see on some sites. So when you click on my site you will see "loading page" with the percentage. Can anyone help?

Thanks
Johnny

[jeskel]

Hi,
Usually the sites showing this kind of loading informations are flash sites. You can achieve something similar with the use of javascript I think... but this has to be checked... I've seen that on non-flash sites. I think you should first decide if your site will be done using flash or not. Then you will be able to go further in your quest ;)

[mindlessLemming]

I don't remember where I got this from, but I found it burried deep in the archives.
I seriously doubt how cross-browser friendly this is..:o

But it will allow you to have a centered Loading Bar with % on an html page.

[oracleguy]

With the exception of flash based sites, you really shouldn't need a pre-load page in most cases. If you do, you may just need to optimize your graphics better. I don't know about others but I'd get irritated if I had to wait for the stuff to pre-load. If you must do it, make sure it doesn't take more than 20 seconds over dial up.

[jeskel]

Right... The size of the page must be huge if this is non flash. Actually I am ready to wait to see some good flash design (thus a loading status is a good thing).. not to visit a 'regular' site.

[mindlessLemming]

I totally agree w/ Oracle and Jeskel on this, I just posted it because you asked for it.
You really shouldn't use it unless your page is a massive chunk of sliced high res jpg's.