General Discussions

**calande** · 07-07-2007, 10:52 AM

Hi guys! I designed a web page with a page loader, I found it interesting because when you load a page, images load one after the other, and while the style sheet loads, the page is rendered funny. Please have a look at my web site and tell me if you like it better with the page loader the way it is, or if you think it's better without

http://www.pcbsd.fr/

**Republikin** · 07-07-2007, 12:02 PM

Do you mean pre-loading the images with javascript?

**calande** · 07-07-2007, 01:01 PM

Yep, and hiding the process of loading and rendering the page until it's fully loaded and good-looking

**ForrestCroce** · 07-07-2007, 01:56 PM

I get a blank white page. I closed the tab and tried again, and now there's a background image that looks like a close up of a button-down shirt someone is wearing. I gave it a few minutes, and that's what I get.

**calande** · 07-07-2007, 03:05 PM

Hum... Strange, there should be a blog. Does your browser report javascript errors?

**ForrestCroce** · 07-07-2007, 03:13 PM

I have that turned off on all but a few sites. I'm using an older, slower computer, and the script debugger is resource hungry. On my third visit to check, though, a blog loaded. I can't imagine what that's about. Are you spawning a new thread to do your loading? What happens if a background thread throws an exception?

I'm running FireFox 2, if that helps you to know. I can't recommend FireBug enough, especially on a modern box.

**calande** · 07-07-2007, 03:47 PM

Cool!

It's a blog on PC-BSD. What do you mean by "new thread"? I don't know how to use threads in Javascript

Anyway, I'm using Opera here, and in the debug console I don't see any JS error. I'm goin to try in other browsers to double-check. So you don't see a loading screen like in Gmail?

**EGS** · 07-07-2007, 03:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by calande

Cool!

It's a blog on PC-BSD. What do you mean by "new thread"? I don't know how to use threads in Javascript

Anyway, I'm using Opera here, and in the debug console I don't see any JS error. I'm goin to try in other browsers to double-check. So you don't see a loading screen like in Gmail?

I heart<3 PC-BSD.

**goheadtry** · 07-07-2007, 04:00 PM

If you have a loader I recommend only loading key images etc that you will place on every page, but when you make your main page a loader with video it can lower your google page rank trust me I tried this they gave me a zero because there was no content on the main page but there was a video.
It has taken me months to get my rank backup to a PR2 so this is a bad Idea.

**calande** · 07-07-2007, 04:32 PM

No, my loader is 100% javascript, so Googlebot discarts it, and I'm not including any video, it just reads "Loading...". Do you see the loading screen?

**calande** · 07-08-2007, 09:32 AM

No ?