pixel_juice - 12:29 am on Nov 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

I have a page design using CSS that puts the source code in order, with the main text content first, and navigation last.

By necessity, this page will take about 3-5 seconds to return data (regardless of connection speed) and displays the various components the visitor has requested one by one on the page in the main content part of the html.

Unfortunately, this means the navigation section and certain design elements do not display until the rest of the parts of the page has loaded, and this looks very ugly.

Does anyone know of a way I can overcome this issue? I prefer displaying the parts of the page as they are loaded, because this gives the visitor something to read through while the rest of the content is loading. I could dump this idea altogether and display some kind of loading screen, but I'm not too keen on that idea.