Download the html and then images

[Guest]

Hi
I want the page(with a lot of images) to be seen in as fast as possible.
Well, that's everybody wants... but I don't mind to compromise...
The images/flash can be downloded in a "second phase".
The important thing is that the users would be able to read the html in less
then a second(the pictures weigh above 300 KB)
Any best practices? articles links?

Thanks, Nay

 

[Tasos Vogiatzoglou]

Start loading them after the page is loaded.

Put an event handler on the body.onload event and when the body is
loaded (users can start reading) you can start loading the other parts
of the page.

Tasos