looking for speed !

[Anon]

When i surf some website which dont have frame. They do have a menu at the top ,
for example , zend.com and phpwizard.net.

Their top menu is load very fast , just
one second you can see it (the body part not, still have to wait a moment), May i know how why is it so fast ?
how to do that ??

thanks for answer !

[Anon]

Well if you have your whole page in one table, you must wait for the whole page to load before you see your content. If you put top menu in a table and then body content in a table underneath your top menu will load quick and show itself before the rest of the page is loaded

[Anon]

This is mostly a Netscape issue, but it affects Internet Explorer to an extent as well. Table layout can really impact the user's perception of response time.

Netscape will not draw a table or its contents until it can lay out the entire table -- which means it has to have all of the text, all of the image sizes, et cetera.

So smart Web designers will break a page into multiple stacked tables whenever possible. That lets the upper table render while the lower table is still downloading.