Make text display before graphics on my website?

Would like visitors to be able to read text

[William_W]

My site is pretty graphic-heavy, so I'd like my visitors to at least be able to read some, if not most, of the text, THEN only somehow allow the graphics to be downloaded.

Currently, all of the text and graphics appear at the same time ... which means a long waiting time. I have very basic HTML skills, site was done in .asp.

How do I delay the loading of the GIFs?...

Thanks for any help at all.

[mivox]

A couple suggestions: If it's possible to put your images in a table separate from your text, try that. Also, make sure ALL your images have their height and width specified exactly in your HTML.

Some browsers will not show ANY of the content in a table, until ALL of the table content is completely loaded... hence suggestion #1.

Some browsers will display blank 'placeholder' squares for images with specific sizes given, show the page text, and fill in the images as they load... but seem to make everything wait if the image dimensions are not specified, hence suggestion #2. :)

[broniusm]

I concur with mivox and add two comments:
-on your images, be sure to put alt="" attributes to describe the image your visitors will be waiting to see (once you've added the height/width attributes).
-height/width is automatically figured when using most WYSIWYG editors like Dreamweaver, but if you're hand-coding, it can be tough to get the dimensions. Using EditPlus for my handcoding, when you drag/drop an "image" from Windows Explorer, EditPlus automatically puts in the code for the image including width/height, etc.. Also, using XP, you can see image dimensions in Windows Explorer by hovering the filename.