Issues

[skc]

Hi,

I have some issues in FP that need addressing please:

1. www.maslenmotors.com, click Showroom>View all
cars...you eventually get a DRW page with video buttons.
Thing is, Page 1 to Page 2 is OK, but you cannot go to
Page 3....why?

2. www.romfordcommercials.com, click Showroom tab, click
the Broadband connection button. I am calling picture
paths into the page, but the page takes ages to load! How
do I create a custom "Please wait while page is loading"
splash screen with no pop-up?

Thanks.

skc

 

[Jon]

Hi,
I remember a few of us discussing the car dealer page last week - at the
time the consensus seemed to be to do away with the FP and roll your own asp
code. That's really the way I'd go - firstly youll get a faster more
efficient solution secondly there's plenty of people in here that can help
you with ASP but not many that use the FP wizard. That should tell you
something Do a search on the asp sites for recordset paging code and you
should be able to get something going quickly.

2nd site rather than a splash screen I'd use response.flush to get some info
onto the page while the rest is loading - to see what I mean click here
http://www.bookhead.co.uk/0764543792

This page normally takes about 15 seconds to fully load but I get some info
on the page along with a little animated seaching thingy - this keeps the
users attention while the page is loading

Jon
Microsoft MVP - FP

 

[skc]

Jon,

Your link does not really give me anything - just a book
advert on SQL.

skc

-----Original Message-----
Hi,
I remember a few of us discussing the car dealer page last week - at the
time the consensus seemed to be to do away with the FP and roll your own asp
code. That's really the way I'd go - firstly youll get a faster more
efficient solution secondly there's plenty of people in here that can help
you with ASP but not many that use the FP wizard. That should tell you
something Do a search on the asp sites for recordset paging code and you
should be able to get something going quickly.

2nd site rather than a splash screen I'd use

response.flush to get some info

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

He was telling you about what the page itself uses, not about the book link.
--
Tom Pepper Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default.mspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/frontpage
-----

 

[skc]

Jon,

Can you tell me how to tackle this problem - I used your
link and it seems pretty fast.

Are you using SQL2000?

What do I need to do??

skc

 

[skc]

Jon,

Examples on the Response.Flush would be great please.

skc

 

[Jon]

yes asp.net and sql server 2000 - database is big. The link was probably an
over complicated example but as long as we're on it. The first point i gave
you about returning results in groups of 10 - go to that site and type
something in the title box, youll get results back from a db of several
hundred thousand records in a quick time. Then click one of the links and it
finds the cheapest price for that book from several online retailers - this
takes about 10 seconds but youve got the book description to hold your
interest while the results are being pulled in, I think this is better than
just having a blank page saying please wait.

Hope thats clear The basic concept is to do something like this
<%
' your asp to get something on the page for the user to read
' while the work is being done
' book description in my example
%>
<%response.flush%>
<%
' your code to display results when they're ready
%>

Jon

 

[chris leeds]

I swear I've seen that maslen site before. is it some kind of auto dealer
software? I think I've found it when searching through aspin.com and the
like.
Not being smarmy, I really think I saw it from one of those places.

 

[Steve Easton]

Yep, we went through this drill about a month ago.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
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........................with a computer

 

[chris leeds]

maybe that's where I sawr it. ;-) I could have sworn I came across it
looking for an app on one of the sites. It's hard to remember when you look
at thousands of things each week.