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I would prefer to not have the images being reloaded over and over again. this would mean that using iframes would be suitable. except that i would rather not use iframes.
i thought of using layers, but the only trouble with that is that all the information is loaded, before being displayed. when you are wnating to have a gallery and maybe streaming audio, layers wouldn't work.
if anyone could suggest an alternate way of showing the information, i would really really really appreciate it. basically, i need the page to show as if iframes were being used, even though they aren't.
confusing, i know.
I would prefer to not have the images being reloaded over and over again
Why not? Any modern browser uses a cache, so there's not much of a hit to using some of the same images on many pages. In my experience, using an IFrame will degrade browser performance and unnecessarily complicate your work.
I'd be tempted to throw something together using very light-weight PHP, if your host provides that facility. You can make template files with the stuff common to every page, and then just add on unique content as required. This will make things easy for you when you want to change the look of the site later on.
As a personal preference, I try to avoid that look where all the content is constrained in a box in the middle of the page. Not only is this tricky to achieve using strict markup, it's not very friendly to people who have unusal screen sizes, or who want to print out part of your site. Think of a nice linear layout, for preference -- as if each page were enscribed on a scroll of arbitrary width and height.
Why not? Any modern browser uses a cache, so there's not much of a hit
I don't know if that's what the O.P. was concerned with... I took it to mean that he wanted to avoid image reloads because he feels the "blip" that occurs on reload would ruin the aesthetic of the page design... of course, lots of people think that about their designs, and they're often wrong...
Well, I'm pretty anti-Flash myself, but in this case, you may want to go that route. First of all, you would be free to have as many or as few elements "reload" as you like; secondly, the ol' "rock band web site" is one of the few genres where I think Flash-driven sites are acceptable. You can give the site a music video-esque appeal, have the band's tracks playing throughout the site... it's a multimedia-driven genre, and so the ultimate multimedia app makes a lot of sense. As for the poor SEO that Flash brings, well... if someone's going to blindly go Googling for "rock band", you're not likely to get anywhere near the first page SERPs no matter what you do.
I'd be tempted to throw something together using very light-weight PHP, if your host provides that facility.
Well, I'm pretty anti-Flash myself, but in this case, you may want to go that route.
i made this post last night, after which i tried a few more things. i think i might just stick to plain html, and make sure that the background of the content repeats cleanly. i'm sure i'll find a way.
but i'll definitely keep those suggestions in mind for when i need to revamp the site and know a bit more programming and flash. i'll stick up a link to the site when i am done, and let you see how i did it. comments would be helpful too :)
It's the fastest.
It's Universal.
Every browser renders it, even pda's and cell phones.
