My site's graphic load slowly on Internet Explorer

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LNO

When I visit my Web site--larryoconnorcommunications.com--on Internet
Explorer the graphics load a few seconds after the text. When I go from page
to page on the site, even graphics that appear on every page seem to be
reloading. When I vist my site on Netscape, the graphics load right along
with the text. Is the IE just slower than Netscape or is there something I
can do to get the loading my images in sync with the loadong of the text on
IE? It just operates a lot more smoothly on Netscape. However, the clip art
logo I use on every page appears more ragged on Netscape than on IE. Why?
 
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David Bartosik [MSFT MVP]

Pub 2003 uses different copies of images for different browsers. For a high
fidelity browser like IE 6 it will load hi quality images, for NS it will
load smaller grade images.
Service Pack 1 installs a image optimizer tool on the picture toolbar to
allow you to use smaller quality images to improve download time. An article
on that is listed at
http://www.publishermvps.com/WebDesign/Version2003/tabid/33/Default.aspx
and the Service Pack is linked off of http://www.publishermvps.com

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com
 
L

LNO

Hi. Thank you for your reply. I had already used the image optimizer tool,
but as I wrote in my earlier email, the graphics still load much more slowly
on IE than on Netscape, which seems to simulatneously load graphics and text
on a page as if the page were all one file. Is there anything else I can try?
It seems odd that a Web site designed by one Microsoft product (Publisher
2003) would not funtion as well on IE (another Microsoft product) as it does
on Netscape and other browsers. I noticed on the Publisher MVP site to which
you referred me that there is an article on Web page archiving which saves
Web pages as a single file. Can that be used for uploading my Web site to the
Internet? LNO

David Bartosik said:
Pub 2003 uses different copies of images for different browsers. For a high
fidelity browser like IE 6 it will load hi quality images, for NS it will
load smaller grade images.
Service Pack 1 installs a image optimizer tool on the picture toolbar to
allow you to use smaller quality images to improve download time. An article
on that is listed at
http://www.publishermvps.com/WebDesign/Version2003/tabid/33/Default.aspx
and the Service Pack is linked off of http://www.publishermvps.com

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

LNO said:
When I visit my Web site--larryoconnorcommunications.com--on Internet
Explorer the graphics load a few seconds after the text. When I go from
page
to page on the site, even graphics that appear on every page seem to be
reloading. When I vist my site on Netscape, the graphics load right along
with the text. Is the IE just slower than Netscape or is there something I
can do to get the loading my images in sync with the loadong of the text
on
IE? It just operates a lot more smoothly on Netscape. However, the clip
art
logo I use on every page appears more ragged on Netscape than on IE. Why?
 
D

David Bartosik [MSFT MVP]

An archive file is not meant for web sites, it's an .mht file that other
browsers don't support.
Have you disabled the explicit PNG support under Tools, Web options?
PNG image files are larger image files. As I said earlier, Publisher pages
have different versions of each image. If you look in the sub-folder at the
images you will find that each picture is there multiple times in different
resolutions and file types. IE is going to use the biggest and best quality
version while "dumber" browsers load lower quality images. Which, depending
on connection speed of the client may translate into one loading faster then
the other. This is intentional on Publisher's part, by design.

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com


LNO said:
Hi. Thank you for your reply. I had already used the image optimizer tool,
but as I wrote in my earlier email, the graphics still load much more
slowly
on IE than on Netscape, which seems to simulatneously load graphics and
text
on a page as if the page were all one file. Is there anything else I can
try?
It seems odd that a Web site designed by one Microsoft product (Publisher
2003) would not funtion as well on IE (another Microsoft product) as it
does
on Netscape and other browsers. I noticed on the Publisher MVP site to
which
you referred me that there is an article on Web page archiving which saves
Web pages as a single file. Can that be used for uploading my Web site to
the
Internet? LNO

David Bartosik said:
Pub 2003 uses different copies of images for different browsers. For a
high
fidelity browser like IE 6 it will load hi quality images, for NS it will
load smaller grade images.
Service Pack 1 installs a image optimizer tool on the picture toolbar to
allow you to use smaller quality images to improve download time. An
article
on that is listed at
http://www.publishermvps.com/WebDesign/Version2003/tabid/33/Default.aspx
and the Service Pack is linked off of http://www.publishermvps.com

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

LNO said:
When I visit my Web site--larryoconnorcommunications.com--on Internet
Explorer the graphics load a few seconds after the text. When I go from
page
to page on the site, even graphics that appear on every page seem to be
reloading. When I vist my site on Netscape, the graphics load right
along
with the text. Is the IE just slower than Netscape or is there
something I
can do to get the loading my images in sync with the loadong of the
text
on
IE? It just operates a lot more smoothly on Netscape. However, the clip
art
logo I use on every page appears more ragged on Netscape than on IE.
Why?
 
L

LNO

Hi, again. You asked if I had disable the explicit PNG support under Tools,
Web Options so I have just gone to Tools, Web Options, Web site options and
there were four check boxes. The Enable Incremental Publishing and Organize
Supporting Files boxes were checked. The "Allow PNG as graphics format to
improve graphics quality" box and the "Rely on VML for faster graphics
downloads" box were both not checked. Should I change anything?

David Bartosik said:
An archive file is not meant for web sites, it's an .mht file that other
browsers don't support.
Have you disabled the explicit PNG support under Tools, Web options?
PNG image files are larger image files. As I said earlier, Publisher pages
have different versions of each image. If you look in the sub-folder at the
images you will find that each picture is there multiple times in different
resolutions and file types. IE is going to use the biggest and best quality
version while "dumber" browsers load lower quality images. Which, depending
on connection speed of the client may translate into one loading faster then
the other. This is intentional on Publisher's part, by design.

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com


LNO said:
Hi. Thank you for your reply. I had already used the image optimizer tool,
but as I wrote in my earlier email, the graphics still load much more
slowly
on IE than on Netscape, which seems to simulatneously load graphics and
text
on a page as if the page were all one file. Is there anything else I can
try?
It seems odd that a Web site designed by one Microsoft product (Publisher
2003) would not funtion as well on IE (another Microsoft product) as it
does
on Netscape and other browsers. I noticed on the Publisher MVP site to
which
you referred me that there is an article on Web page archiving which saves
Web pages as a single file. Can that be used for uploading my Web site to
the
Internet? LNO

David Bartosik said:
Pub 2003 uses different copies of images for different browsers. For a
high
fidelity browser like IE 6 it will load hi quality images, for NS it will
load smaller grade images.
Service Pack 1 installs a image optimizer tool on the picture toolbar to
allow you to use smaller quality images to improve download time. An
article
on that is listed at
http://www.publishermvps.com/WebDesign/Version2003/tabid/33/Default.aspx
and the Service Pack is linked off of http://www.publishermvps.com

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

When I visit my Web site--larryoconnorcommunications.com--on Internet
Explorer the graphics load a few seconds after the text. When I go from
page
to page on the site, even graphics that appear on every page seem to be
reloading. When I vist my site on Netscape, the graphics load right
along
with the text. Is the IE just slower than Netscape or is there
something I
can do to get the loading my images in sync with the loadong of the
text
on
IE? It just operates a lot more smoothly on Netscape. However, the clip
art
logo I use on every page appears more ragged on Netscape than on IE.
Why?
 

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