Just tried the Inn's website, Jay; in Opera 7.23 it took about 10sec to
load; it seemed to 'pause', then deliver the whole page at once, rather
than loading things sequentially like most pages do.

Not sure why the delay; that big image is actually fairly low-res and
small, and the rest is almost all text.

if you want to dump the javascripted nav bars in the top left, you can do
great, cross-browser things with Cascading Style Sheets & link styling, to
replicate most of your nav bar's fiddly bits without any Java or
Javascript at all.

The cool thing about CSS styling is that even in non-CSS-capable browsers
(ie older browsers, or PDAs & Blackberries, etc) the links will just come
out as plain text, so they'll still be totally useable!

See my aviation page (www.warbard.ca/avgas/index.html) and look at the
small nav bar right below the title block - that's all CSS, but it's got
'animated' features.

Brian.

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