webmasters, question about tables and site loading time
 

If you put all your graphics in one big table, will your site not load untill everything in that table has loaded? Will that be an issue?

My designer wants to put everything on the site in one big table(he is cutting up the images, but all the images will be in a single table that will run from the top of the site to the bottom). I was under the impression that slows down loading time. Can you guys clear this up for us.

that's ridiculous.

ahha What?

ok, so I assume he is right?

Yeah he he right check the HTML on www.ukpornochicks.com/michelle.htm

Images sliced up and in a table.

DIV's mother fucker..... DIV's

If all the images and cells have height and width attributes then
depending on the length it could be ok. However Netscape (not
sure about new versions) will still wait for the whole table to load
before rendering whereas IE will render the table as it
downloads. If the site can be broken into smaller parts then
that's a very good idea. If the designer is using WYSIWYG editor
then chances are they don't know how to do this without
creating a small gap from the editors transparent gif spacers. If
the tables are nested without spacer.gif's then they should be
able to be stacked exactly on top of each other without any gaps
and with more incremental and faster loading. If they are using
Dreamweaver then they'll need to set the export options so that
nested tables are used rather than spacer.gifs.

-Ben

I'm assuming it's a long site rather than just a one-screen layout
like that posted above....

-Ben

yeah, its a long layout, like reality site layout