Design your web for faster opening
You might have seen that some sites are faster and some are slow to open up. Some sites begin by displaying only the background and then show the text all at once several minutes later. This is a poorly designed web site. What we need a site which opens up with a normal speed.
Tables: Web designers use tables for creating an attractive and effective site. They don't create new tables for the different segments of their content. Instead, they simply divide the cells into which they will be placing their content. It is called the lazy road. This will work very well if there are very few images or no images at all on your website.
Split the tables: If your site has several images or is quite intense in its graphic usage, use separate tables for dividing your content. It can be explained by understanding the way that internet browsers read tables in a web site. The browser will display the text and the images as they load within a standard HTML site. However, the browser will wait until the entire page has loaded before any of its contents are displayed within your visitor's internet browser when tables come into play. All that is required is one large graphic to slow down the display of your entire site from within fifteen seconds to over a minute. That is why it is said that you should use separate tables to split your graphics from other elements of your site. Format the border, cell spacing, and cell padding simply at 0 so that the multiple tables are not visible to your viewers.
Split the data: The best way to split up all of the data on your web site is to use two or more tables. The first table may consist of your logo and any header information that you wish to include in your web design. A second table can be the actual content of the site. If your page happens to be especially big, a third table can be added, may be a particularly large graphic or other sizeable element. This works quite well as the visitor is able to see your logo immediately and some of the options offered by your web site, as they wait for the rest of the content of the pages to load.
Split the content: You can also split up your content by creating tables within your tables. This will allow the main table to load first, displaying its own contents while the tables within it continue to load. This makes the loading time of your page notably faster, and still provides the viewer with something to look at and read as the page's sub-tables continue to load.
Use Java Script: It is better to use JavaScript within your web page tables than to use elements such as Java, Shockwave, and ActiveX programs within your tables because it is much faster in its loading and its execution. This makes us to continue to save on loading time.
Fast loading: The web designers value these techniques highly because they give priority for fast loading of websites, and understand how important it is to get your content in front of your visitors as quickly as possible so that the visitors may not go away elsewhere to find a faster site.
Make it faster: Consider your visitors with slower connections (such as dial up) whenever possible, and test the speed of your site before finalizing its web design. Remember that most of the visitors find it much easier and much more appealing to simply click away from a slow site and find a fast one than to wait forever for a sluggish load. The rule of thumb is to have your first information up within 10 seconds even for the slowest connections, and then provide additional information and content rapidly before the viewer can become bored or frustrated.
