Explorer hangs when oppening my website

[jeckx24u]

i really dont know what the problem is. When i opened my webpage it hangs for a minute before it loads. My first theory of the problem is becuase of the flash graphics. Anyone knows why the problem occurs. by the way my website address http://www.geocities.com/wile_dalnet. :( :( :confused:

[DaveSW]

What size are the flash graphics? Also it could be that the geocities server is slow.

I don't have any trouble in IE6 and broadband.

Another thing is that you'll probably exceed your transfer limit before long...

[jeckx24u]

Well there are pieces of flash movie in that site. The main menu size is width="150" height="675" the two is width="585" height="195" the other two is width="507" height="77" and width="315" height="120". I tried to put preloader but stills the same result.:o :o :o

[PeOfEo]

geocities popups and ads use a lot of java script and their servers are not exactly the fastest due to so many users. You will not get fast load times or great service with them.

[jeckx24u]

ah ok havin an idea. I thought i have a problem in publishing html. Do you think !doctype will help to prevent it from hanging up. Becuase i make a pure flash with 800x750 and the page loads perfectly it doesn't hangs for a second thats the myth i am trying to solve.

[PeOfEo]

That should not have anything to do with it.

[jeckx24u]

hmmm so what then. Is there a pre loader for html maybe that can solve my problem.

[PeOfEo]

Ok geocities uses an ad rotater suing probably cgi and most likely xml too. Then the client has to go through a mountain of java script they add. Sure you can cache the java script early but if its their server lag on that ad rotator there is nothing you can do. Getting a new host is the better solution.

[jeckx24u]

hmm i think you haven't get the point. As i said i have tow websites, one is pure flash and other is not pure flash. i opened the pure flash which has is working properly. But when i opened that site with html and flash it stops or hangs for 2 minutes before it starts loading the pages. So i think it is not the hosting problem.

[PeOfEo]

I dont think its your problem either.

[jeckx24u]

Youre wrong STD it is my problem. Thats why i am asking for any opinion. If its not my problem y should i ask then hehehe lolz...

[PeOfEo]

Give me a link to both sites and Ill see what it does to me.

[jeckx24u]

http://www.geocities.com/wile_dalnet <---the one that hangs for 2 minutes before loading the page
http://www.geocities.com/jeckx24u <----pure flash that works fine.
http://wile-dalnet.netfirms.com <---for my cgi programs

:( :( :(

[PeOfEo]

The pure flash one with the preloader seems to lag more for me actually. But they both have terrible lag. I can safely say that it is server lag because I am sitting on a 100mbps connection. The reason it might be different from you is because you have all of the flash preloaded in the flash one but on the html you still need to recach the html etc. Clear your history they will both lag a whole lot. Also if you are reading the html one from cache you are going to have to access the sound files and all of that separatly and with flash its all together.

[jeckx24u]

hmm thanks for the tip. Maybe i the solution is to lessen the flash movies and remove that sound. Maybe it can minimize the log. :p :p :p

[PeOfEo]

That would help, but you should still switch hosts :) Geocities is on my hitlist... of hosts that I hate that is. No server side langauges, low bandwidth cap, ads. They are terrible.

[jeckx24u]

yeah youre right. ihave found a great free host such as netfirms they offer ssi and cgi and adds free. But today i created account to them but they put bannes at the top today hehehe bad luck for me i should register earlier

[PeOfEo]

www.freewebs.com low bandwidth but they off php cgi and ssi no ads

[jeckx24u]

thanks for the tip. That site can help me to learn php becuase i dont know anything about php hehehe.

[jeckx24u]

hahahah now i know that reading is the best tool ever. I have solved the problem. In every flash movie in the htm i put this object and embed tags.


<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" WIDTH=297 HEIGHT=19>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="images.swf">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF>
<EMBED src="images/l1.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH=297 HEIGHT=19 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED>
</OBJECT>


maybe this can help for some flash users :p :p :p