Loading CSS Body background before page content?

Question

Hi all,
I'm doing this homepage for a publisher:
http://www.alma.dk/
When testing it with sloppy (www.dallaway.com/sloppy/), I can
see that the background image of the logo, which is the most
important graphic, loads LAST.
I've figured this is because the body style is set in the CSS
file, and browser logic doesn't load CSS defined images first.
Is there any way to make the page load the CSS defined images
before it loads the rest of the page contents? I've got a few large
images hidden in layers on that page that the browser attempts to
load before displaying the background image, which is not ideal. -
And I'd rather use CSS styling for the body, ofcourse.
Thank you for any pointers!

Answer 1

> Your stats are wrong, because in that one HTML page,
there are 198KBs of
> graphics. Try MouseOver on one of the book graphics,
that'll reveal the
> hidden
> larger images, that are contained in Layers, with Snap
Layers by PVII. -
> Or try
> the site with Sloppy.
If you eliminated the heavy js hit of snap layers (using CSS
instead), and
adopted the Set Text method of writing the image source link
to an ID
element, you could probably cut 80% of this page's weight.
Then you
wouldn't have to worry about the slow load.
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"Mathias(DK)" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Murray!
>
> I came here hoping that it would be you that answered my
call. You've been
> a
> tremendous help on this forum before whenever I needed
it, and for that I
> owe
> you...
>
> > I've figured this is because the body style is set
in the CSS file, and
> > browser logic doesn't load CSS defined images
first.
>
> >I'd be interested to know where you learned this.
>
> As I wrote, this is something I figured myself, since
looking at the page
> through Sloppy, I can see that the BG image persistently
loads as one of
> the
> last graphics.
>
> Your stats are wrong, because in that one HTML page,
there are 198KBs of
> graphics. Try MouseOver on one of the book graphics,
that'll reveal the
> hidden
> larger images, that are contained in Layers, with Snap
Layers by PVII. -
> Or try
> the site with Sloppy.
>
> Counting Angels, huh? Well, I take pride in what I do,
whatever I do, and
> at
> the same time I'm interested in learning. Even if I
optimized the BG
> graphic
> more (GIF), it'd still load last (after 161KBs of
graphics + HTML and
> CSS).
>
> So there is the problem. And just for the record, the
page will go dynamic
> in
> the future, so there wont be hidden graphic hacks on it,
but I'm
> interested
> still, for future reference and for learning.
>
>
>
>
>