I’m in the progress of completely rewriting my team’s website from scratch and can’t find a decent pre-loader anywhere! Does anybody have suggestions on where to find one?
Specifically, I’m wanting a loading bar (to 100 %) and I want it to load the whole site.
This was last years website I built:
http://www.hsawaco.org/tigerbots/
If you’re going to rewrite your team’s site from scratch I’d advise you to not use flash.
I agree with ernie. While it looks pretty amazing, the loader is not really looked upon as being a smart design/functionality choice.
If you use a preloader, people on slower connections (like on mobile devices) cannot any content until it has 100% loaded, which many take up to a minute or more. Without a preloader, they can at least see text and links before all the images finish loading. This is the reason why no popular websites ever use preloaders.
Flash is a tool, just like a hammer. And when you focus on using a hammer and nothing else, all problems look like nails.
Alright thanks guys. It was just a idea of mine. My menu bar and rss feed take a few seconds longer to load than the entire site but those are just minor things and I’m sure people won’t mind a few extra seconds load time. 