Dividing up pages for faster loading

[Donna in Idaho]

As I add more pictures to my Photo Gallery page (I'm getting ready to add
more), I wonder if it needs to be split up for faster loading for all speeds
of internet access.

I'm considering putting a link to another page, just on the Photo Gallery
page (but, not on the navigation bar). Is that a good way to make pages
smaller, without having too much stuff listed on the navigation bar?
www.LinusIdaho.org

Can you get too many things listed on the Navigation Bar? Does that get
confusing to people visiting a website?

Since I have high speed internet access, I'm not sure how long it is taking
for these pages to load for people with dial-up.

FP 2003 . . .

 

[Guest]

Responses interspersed...

As I add more pictures to my Photo Gallery page (I'm getting ready to add
more), I wonder if it needs to be split up for faster loading for all speeds
of internet access.

This is a judgement call but yes, there *is* a limit.

I'm considering putting a link to another page, just on the Photo Gallery
page (but, not on the navigation bar). Is that a good way to make pages
smaller, without having too much stuff listed on the navigation bar?
www.LinusIdaho.org

No, because that way the visitor can't display the second Photo Gallery
without displaying the first.

More likely, you'd be better off with a three level menu system. That is,
the main menu would have a link titled My Vacation Pictures (or whatever) and
then another page would have links to Photo Galleries for each day or place
or whatever.

Can you get too many things listed on the Navigation Bar? Does that get
confusing to people visiting a website?

Yes and yes.

Since I have high speed internet access, I'm not sure how long it is taking
for these pages to load for people with dial-up.

FP 2003 . . .

To get an estimated page loading time, open the page in FrontPage Design
view, then look about three quarter of the way across the status bar at the
bottom of the window. An untitled "Estimated Time to Download" box should
display something like 9.87@56kb, indicating that if nothing is cached at the
browser, the page and all its components will take about 9.87 seconds to
download at 56kb. To get estimates for other connection speeds, click the
"9.87@56kb" (or whatever) text and select the speed you want from the popup
list.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft MVP
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[Donna in Idaho]

Let me see if I understand - on my index page (main page), I need to put a
link to the photo gallery page (but, not in the navigation bar). Then on
the Photo Gallery Page, instead of putting any pictures, I would just put
links to each different page of pictures, i.e., One would be Crime
Prevention Fair, second would be NICU pictures, Third would be Steelheads
pictures, Fourth would be Youngest Volunteers, etc. . . .

Doing it this way, you wouldn't have a button on the navigation bar going to
the Photo Gallery Page?

Or, am I completely confusing what you're saying? Been sick all week, not
sure my brain is working right yet!

 

[Guest]

There's no 100% right or wrong way to do this but no, what I envisioned was a
Navigation View diagram like this (which hopefully will look OK with your
fonts.

Home
|
|----------+------------------+
| | |
Pictures Whatever... Whatever Else...
|
+--------------------------+---------+-------------------+
| | | |
Crime Prevention Fair NICU Steelheads Youngest Volunteers

where Pictures is a new page added for this purpose.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
o--> Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition: Build a Web Site
Now!
o--> Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
o--> Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out
o--> Faster Smarter Beginning Programming