hi I am a newbie and although I designed and built a little bit of my website myself, a friend programmed most of it. I am very happy with it but the loading of the thumbs when you goto another gallery page is all over the place, they are not aligned initially and then snap into place! the speed is not really an issue I am happy with the loading time, but the little dance the thumbs do when loading is annoying! here is my site (An Illustration portfolio) so you can see what I mean, click on one of the gallery links like "web and storyboards"
http://planetelan.com/ and here is the code for one of the pages, thanks! :
CODE
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Planet Elan.com</title>
<script src="js/elan.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
#image {
visibility:hidden;
position:absolute;
top:213px;
}
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visibility:hidden;
position:absolute;
top:212px;
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top:212px;
visibility:hidden;
position:absolute;
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top:233px;
visibility:hidden;
position:absolute;
}
#image5 {
top:213px;
visibility:hidden;
position:absolute;
}
#image6 {
top:212px;
visibility:hidden;
position:absolute;
}
#image7 {
top:212px;
visibility:hidden;
position:absolute;
}
#image8 {
top:212px;
visibility:hidden;
position:absolute;
}
#image9 {
top:213px;
visibility:hidden;
position:absolute;
}
#image10 {
top:212px;
visibility:hidden;
position:absolute;
}
#image11 {
top:213px;
visibility:hidden;
position:absolute;
}
#image12 {
top:211px;
visibility:hidden;
position:absolute;
}
#image13 {
top:212px;
visibility:hidden;
position:absolute;
}
#image14 {
top:213px;
visibility:hidden;
position:absolute;
}
#image15 {
top:212px;
visibility:hidden;
position:absolute;
}
#image16 {
top:213px;
visibility:hidden;
position:absolute;
}
.style2 {
font-size: 8px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #98A1B0;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
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if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
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<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr align="left"><td height="200px">
<table width="1022" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td width="30"></td>
<td width="50"> </td>
<td width="249">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="750">
<tr>
<tr valign="left">
<td width="605"><img src="images/spacer-elan_black.gif" width="139" height="5" /></td>
<td height="50px"><img src="images/Elan-Harris.gif" width="204" height="51" /></td>
<td width="135" align="right"><a href="index.html" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image49','','images/homepage_black_roll.gif',1)"><img src="images/homepage_black.gif" name="Image49" width="135" height="51" border="0" id="Image49" /></a></td>
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<td width="135" align="right"><a href="about elan.html" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image46','','images/about-elan_black_roll.gif',1)"><img src="images/about-elan_black.gif" name="Image46" width="135" height="51" border="0" id="Image46" /></a></td>
<td width="108" align="right">
<span style="color:#FFFFFF">
<h1><a href="contact.html" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image45','','images/contact_black_roll.gif',1)"><img src="images/contact_black.gif" name="Image45" width="135" height="51" border="0" id="Image45" /></a></h1>
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<tr valign="center"><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" >
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<div align="center" id="image">
<img src="images/united_healthcare.jpg" alt="Elan Harris" align="absmiddle"/>
</div>
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<img src="images/celeb_1.gif" alt="Elan Harris" align="absmiddle"/>
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<img src="images/alberto_kids.jpg" alt="Elan Harris" align="absmiddle"/>
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<img src="images/target.jpg" alt="Elan Harris" align="absmiddle"/>
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<img src="images/alberto_3.jpg" alt="Elan Harris" align="absmiddle"/>
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<img src="images/celeb_2_2.gif" alt="Elan Harris" align="absmiddle"/>
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<img src="images/Virgin_staff.jpg" alt="Elan Harris" align="absmiddle"/>
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<div align="center" id="image8">
<img src="images/dracula.gif" alt="Elan Harris" align="absmiddle"/>
</div>
<div align="center" id="image9">
<img src="images/shopperholic.jpg" alt="Elan Harris" align="absmiddle"/>
</div>
<div align="center" id="image10">
<img src="images/celeb_3.gif" alt="Elan Harris" align="absmiddle"/>
</div>
<div align="center" id="image11">
<img src="images/nathans.jpg" alt="Elan Harris" align="absmiddle"/>
</div>
<div align="center" id="image12">
<img src="images/thumb_spacer.gif" alt="Elan Harris" align="absmiddle"/>
</div>
<div align="center" id="image13">
<img src="images/cityslicker.jpg" alt="Elan Harris" align="absmiddle"/>
</div>
<div align="center" id="image14">
<img src="images/caspian.gif" alt="Elan Harris" align="absmiddle"/>
</div>
<div align="center" id="image15">
<img src="images/Report-on-UFO.gif" alt="Elan Harris" align="absmiddle"/>
</div>
<div align="center" id="image16">
<img src="images/thumb_spacer.gif" alt="Elan Harris" align="absmiddle"/>
</div>
</td>
<td width="30px"></td>
<td>
<table cellspacing="0" height="50px">
<tr>
<td>
<div align="center"><a href="event.html" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image42','','images/event-2.gif',1)"><img src="images/event_concepts_rollover.gif" name="Image42" width="89" height="32" border="0" id="Image42" /></a></div>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td ><a href= "java script://" onmouseover="swapLayers('image'); return false"><img src="images/united_healthcare_tb.jpg" border=0 alt="Elan Harris" /></a></td>
</tr>
<tr><td ><a href= "java script://" onmouseover="swapLayers('image2'); return false"><img src="images/celeb_1_tb.gif" border=0 alt="Elan Harris" ></a></td>
</tr>
<tr><td ><a href= "java script://" onmouseover="swapLayers('image3'); return false"><img src="images/alberto_kids_tb.gif" border=0 alt="Elan Harris" ></a></td>
</tr>
<tr><td ><a href= "java script://" onmouseover="swapLayers('image4'); return false"><img src="images/Target_tb.gif" border=0 alt="Elan Harris"/></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td><div align="center"><img src="images/people-concepts.gif" width="89" height="32" /></div>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td ><a href= "java script://" onmouseover="swapLayers('image5'); return false"><img src="images/alberto_2_tb.jpg" border="0" alt="Elan Harris"/></a></td>
</tr>
<tr><td ><a href= "java script://" onmouseover="swapLayers('image6'); return false"><img src="images/celeb_2_2_tb.gif" border="0" alt="Elan Harris"/></a></td>
</tr>
<tr><td ><a href= "java script://" onmouseover="swapLayers('image7'); return false"><img src="images/Virgin_staff_tb.jpg" border="0" alt="Elan Harris"/></a></td>
</tr>
<tr><td ><a href= "java script://" onmouseover="swapLayers('image8'); return false"><img src="images/dracula_tb.gif" border="0" alt="Elan Harris"/></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td><div align="center"><a href="web.html" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image47','','images/web-&-storyboards.gif',1)"><img src="images/web-&-storyboards-rollover.gif" name="Image47" width="89" height="32" border="0" id="Image47" /></a></div>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td ><a href= "java script://" onmouseover="swapLayers('image9'); return false"><img src="images/shopperholic_tb.jpg" border="0" alt="Elan Harris"/></a></td>
</tr>
<tr><td ><a href= "java script://" onmouseover="swapLayers('image10'); return false"><img src="images/celeb_3_tb.gif" border="0" alt="Elan Harris"/></a></td>
</tr>
<tr><td ><a href= "java script://" onmouseover="swapLayers('image11'); return false"><img src="images/nathans_tb.gif" border="0" alt="Elan Harris"/></a></td>
</tr>
<tr><td ><a href= "java script://" onmouseover="swapLayers('image12'); return false"><img src="images/thumb_spacer.gif" border="0" alt="Elan Harris"/></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td>
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<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td ><a href= "java script://" onmouseover="swapLayers('image13'); return false"><img src="images/cityslicker_tb.jpg" border="0" alt="Elan Harris"/></a></td>
</tr>
<tr><td ><a href= "java script://" onmouseover="swapLayers('image14'); return false"><img src="images/caspian_tb.gif" border="0" alt="Elan Harris"/></a></td>
</tr>
<tr><td ><a href= "java script://" onmouseover="swapLayers('image15'); return false"><img src="images/UFO_tb.gif" border="0" alt="Elan Harris"/></a></td>
</tr>
<tr><td ><a href= "java script://" onmouseover="swapLayers('image16'); return false"><img src="images/thumb_spacer.gif" border="0" alt="Elan Harris"/></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr>
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<table width="900" align="left" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
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Mod edit - Please