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[Guest]

I have created a new FP 2002 website for a client using Shared Borders. The client wants to take over maintenance, so using shared borders seemed like a great way to simplify the adding of new webpages to the website. The shared borders include the header, the left margin (which includes the Nav Bar), and the footer

The site is www.kofcindy.or

Everything is working well except the navbar buttons load slowly. It seems like the button that is clicked on usuallly disappears, the new page loads and then the buttons in the nav bar are slow to load. I did modify an existing theme and I did change the vertical nav buttons to use a custom button. So I may have shot myself in the foot here. But, the custom button graphic was only 2k. Any thoughts or suggestions

Thanks!

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Crash_Gordon=AE?=]

Looks fine and loads fast here.


| I have created a new FP 2002 website for a client using Shared Borders. The client wants to take over maintenance, so using shared borders seemed like a great way to simplify the adding of new webpages to the website. The shared borders include the header, the left margin (which includes the Nav Bar), and the footer.
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| The site is www.kofcindy.org
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| Everything is working well except the navbar buttons load slowly. It seems like the button that is clicked on usuallly disappears, the new page loads and then the buttons in the nav bar are slow to load. I did modify an existing theme and I did change the vertical nav buttons to use a custom button. So I may have shot myself in the foot here. But, the custom button graphic was only 2k. Any thoughts or suggestions?
|
| Thanks!

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

It's a little slow over a 26,400 dialup, but not too bad.

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Looks fine and loads fast here.


| I have created a new FP 2002 website for a client using Shared Borders.
The client wants to take over maintenance, so using shared borders seemed
like a great way to simplify the adding of new webpages to the website. The
shared borders include the header, the left margin (which includes the Nav
Bar), and the footer.
|
| The site is www.kofcindy.org
|
| Everything is working well except the navbar buttons load slowly. It
seems like the button that is clicked on usuallly disappears, the new page
loads and then the buttons in the nav bar are slow to load. I did modify an
existing theme and I did change the vertical nav buttons to use a custom
button. So I may have shot myself in the foot here. But, the custom button
graphic was only 2k. Any thoughts or suggestions?
|
| Thanks!

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Crash_Gordon=AE?=]

Whaats a dial up?



| It's a little slow over a 26,400 dialup, but not too bad.
|
| --
| Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
| Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
| http://www.fjsmjs.com
| Protect your PC
| http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
|
|
| | Looks fine and loads fast here.
|
|
| | | I have created a new FP 2002 website for a client using Shared Borders.
| The client wants to take over maintenance, so using shared borders seemed
| like a great way to simplify the adding of new webpages to the website. The
| shared borders include the header, the left margin (which includes the Nav
| Bar), and the footer.
| |
| | The site is www.kofcindy.org
| |
| | Everything is working well except the navbar buttons load slowly. It
| seems like the button that is clicked on usuallly disappears, the new page
| loads and then the buttons in the nav bar are slow to load. I did modify an
| existing theme and I did change the vertical nav buttons to use a custom
| button. So I may have shot myself in the foot here. But, the custom button
| graphic was only 2k. Any thoughts or suggestions?
| |
| | Thanks!
|

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the quick responses guys

I'm on DSL and the nav bar is the last thing to load (much slower than the rest of the page). Since the Nav Bar is in a Shared Border and is the same on all pages, is there a way to avoid the re-load of the Navbar

Thanks
Tinman

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

No, as the navbar is actually inserted into each page when you save the page/shared border while
working in FP.

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Thanks for the quick responses guys!

I'm on DSL and the nav bar is the last thing to load (much slower than the rest of the page).

Since the Nav Bar is in a Shared Border and is the same on all pages, is there a way to avoid the
re-load of the Navbar?

 

[Guest]

Thanks Thomas. I appreciate your information! Looks like I'll either live with the performance as it is now, or remove the nav bar and replace it with buttons. I hate to do that since the Nav bar will simplify the future maintenance of the site by my client. Oh well, I guess I'll leave that up to the client to make the call on that one

Thanks
Tinman

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Buttons will not change the load time, as they will still load in the same manner for each page. I
only use text for navigation links to avoid any wait time.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
==============================================

Thanks Thomas. I appreciate your information! Looks like I'll either live with the performance

as it is now, or remove the nav bar and replace it with buttons. I hate to do that since the Nav
bar will simplify the future maintenance of the site by my client. Oh well, I guess I'll leave that
up to the client to make the call on that one.

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Crash_Gordon=AE?=]

I'm on VDSL, it loads pretty fast...it does kinda "jump" but not bad.


| Thanks for the quick responses guys!
|
| I'm on DSL and the nav bar is the last thing to load (much slower than the rest of the page). Since the Nav Bar is in a Shared Border and is the same on all pages, is there a way to avoid the re-load of the Navbar?
|
| Thanks,
| Tinman