Keeping Background Image From Ever Flickering

Some sites the background image never dissapears on page loads?

[Parlays]

Hello everyone,

I've noticed on nice sites the background color or image never flicker or dissapear when going from page to page. On other sites when you load a new page, everything dissapears for a second and then the background image or color reappears, there is a flicker.

But on nicely designed sites the background image never dissapears. Do you know what is the cause of this? Thanks.

[Dabrowski]

Hi Parlays,

The sites that maintain their background/menu use an IFRAME or a FRAMESET, so only the content area of the page need reload each time.

I also think this way looks better and code in this way.

[Fotiman]

They might also just be using AJAX to fetch the content.

[penders]

Using the same images on subsequent pages and ensuring that caching hasn't been disabled certainly helps. In FF and Opera this is often enough to produce rock-steady page transitions, however, IE6 still seems to like to flicker images slightly (I would have thought it should be double-buffering...?)

[londrum]

you can also set a background-color as well.
if you make it pretty close to what the color of the background image is, then it won't seem so bad.