dark background colour problem

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dark background colour problem

paparazi

5:20 pm on Dec 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

i'm trying to set up pages in dark colours and i'm using dreamweaver. but there's a problem that in the extremely short period of time when a page is being loaded, the background colour turns blank white before the background colour of the next page has been loaded, producing flashes in between dark pages causing discomfort to the viewer.

when i have the pages authored in frontpage there seems to be no such problem.

i'm not sure whether i've posted at the right place but wish someone here could enlighten me to solve it anyway.

thanks.

FourDegreez

9:34 pm on Dec 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

I'm assuming you are using a background image to produce the dark background color. If so, you'll also want to set a background color that is similar to the background image color.

For instance if the background image consists of shades of dark gray, set the background color to be a shade of dark gray. Then the page will load with dark gray from the start and there won't be a white (default background color) flicker before the background image loads.

paparazi

6:27 am on Dec 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

I'm not using any background image but black and dark grey as background colours.

I've seen another post with similar problem but only for the part embedded with a flash object. Any idea why it happens to my situation?

Thanks.

paparazi

5:14 pm on Dec 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

I have to elaborate that it happens when I'm using frames. I have links put in one frame that'll load new pages in another frame. When pages are being loaded in the other frame it flickers.

I happens whether I'm using dreamweaver or frontpage to write it.

I have seen other website with frames and dark backgrounds as well but they don't seem to have such problem. Any idea?

Thanks and I'm desparate for help.

mincklerstraat

5:28 pm on Dec 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

I'm not sure if this will solve your problem, but it's possible that it's due to a flash of unstyled content [bluerobot.com]. Changing the way you do stuff in your <head> and linking your stylesheet might help.

limbo

10:52 am on Dec 15, 2004 (gmt 0)

You could specify your background colour in CSS. Worked for me on a similar problem.