Making web pages appear all at once

1databyte · May 9th, 2008, 19:56

Hi,

can someone please tell me how to make to make my web pages load
/appear instantly all at once instead of the piece by piece jigsaw puzzle
display that comes from using "tables", "tr"and "td". Having said this,
i have seen web pages that load all at once and use tables. With this in mind could someone first suggest how to do this with tables before any talk of using "div"

thanx

bonnit · May 11th, 2008, 14:00

to be perfectly honest with you although you say you want a solution to your table layout rather than a div layout, you really are better off with a div layout, they are more manageable and a more up to date way of designing webpages, keep all of your styling inside css files instead of within your html itself and if you must use taables break them down into smaller tables so that they are able to load faster rather than loading one humungoustable for your page. compressing your images will cut down load time too.

this page has info on optimising load time for web pages including table friendly pages http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/we...pen&l=944,t=gr

bonnit · May 11th, 2008, 14:07

this page could help you transform your table layouts into a div layout http://www.mardiros.net/liquid-css-layouts.html

saltedm8 · May 11th, 2008, 14:26

look into css, with that, instead of putting your images inline, you can put them into the css file as a 'background' for an element, - wether its a table or a div - resulting in pratically zero load time

1databyte · May 13th, 2008, 11:05

hi,

a big thank you to bonnit and saltedm8 for their replies. i am currently looking into how to use "divs" in web page design but having just gotten back into html and building websites again have been a bit reluctant to learn about them for fear of confusing myself. Anyway bonnit thank you for the resource link will check it out. And saltedm8 thankyou for your tip on css styling, i do put some images in a seperate css folder but i will now ensure i do this with all images

big thanx

bonnit · May 13th, 2008, 17:29

it might look confusing but it actually ends up being so much easier especially as more and more people are using them so more support is available, just watch out for internet explorer display bugs with div layouts. if you do end up with problems check this site out for known display issues http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html