Active graphics take too long to be "activated"

[Guest]

FP2003. I've built a web site containing active graphics on the navigation column. My page used to load the alternative graphic quickly, right when I held my cursor over the nav link, but now it takes around five or seven seconds...I think the issue is related to the fact that none of the graphics are being cached so it has to always re download the image. Any ideas? (www.silverstarcabinets.com)

 

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FP2003. I've built a web site containing active graphics on the navigation column. My page used to load the alternative graphic

quickly, right when I held my cursor over the nav link, but now it takes around five or seven seconds...I think the issue is related
to the fact that none of the graphics are being cached so it has to always re download the image. Any ideas?
(www.silverstarcabinets.com)

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the heads-up, Mike! I'll take a look and see what I can do with the info you passed on.

 

[Andrew Murray]

FP2003. I've built a web site containing active graphics on the navigation

column. My page used to load the alternative graphic quickly, right when I held
my cursor over the nav link, but now it takes around five or seven seconds...I
think the issue is related to the fact that none of the graphics are being cached
so it has to always re download the image. Any ideas?
(www.silverstarcabinets.com)

I don't use FP 2003 but does it allow for "preloading" of images (presuming
"active graphics" are Frontpage's version of javascript rollovers). Otherwise
I'd just use javascript and get a preload-images script

try www.javascript.com