无缝页面加载

Question

I've seen some similar questions about this around here but I didn't see anything that might be able to help me here. I am making a web site and I want each page to fade in on load and fade out when someone clicks a link. I have that down with jQuery but between the pages there is a white flash before the pages load. I tried moving around my javascript but in some cases the page didn't load correctly. I'm a bit new to this so I may need a bit of explanation on any possible solutions.

Here is the live site: http://codyshawdesign.com

The HTML is valid in 4.01 Transitional. I've heard about something like Ajax or pagination but I am unsure how to implement those or what I would have to do to put it in my site or if it would even be the most ideal solution. Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

Shouldn't you only update a portion of a page, not the whole page? Now you have many full scale pages with different file names. The page address changes so the whole page is loaded. It's like refreshing the current with ctrl+r/cmd+r page and that isn't very ajaxy.

One solution would be to have a master page which contains all of the common elements between pages such as header, footer and navigation bar. On that page you have a div (or some other area) where you load information dynamically from a different file. What info is loaded could be determined with GET variables via anchor tags or ajax form buttons.

See for example this link and it's demo. http://www.queness.com/post/328/a-simple-ajax-driven-website-with-jqueryphp

It's pretty basic but it demonstrates the idea not to load the whole page but only a portion of it. Add some styles and you're ready to go.

Sorry if this doesn't help. Maybe there is a way to refresh the whole page without the white flash. Easy solution would be to change the background color to white but then again, it wouldn't be very ajaxy...