Can a web page be made to appear instantly?

[tarek01]

Can a web page be made to appear in one shot, without seeing bits and pieces appear one after another? I realize this could be detrimental, especially for slow connections, but there are times when the load isn't that great, and a random order of page load can detract from a certain intended effect or purpose.

Here's an example: http://www.dermatiquelaserandskin.com

The page appears all together. I just can't figure out how it's being done. The CSS doesn't initially hide any of the container DIVS. I've also tried buffering page content in PHP with the ob_start function before sending to the browser, but it still draws everything a piece at a time.

Thanks in advance.

[Dormilich]

well, for me the page’s images took a while to load, while the page text was displaying.

ob_start() does not affect the load since it is strictly server side. (it may work, if you have slow processes, but that’s rather rare). a web page usually renders the faster, the better HTML you write (including preset dimensions (like image width/height))

[chathura86]

you can use a wrapper div as the most outter div and use inline css to hide it

and use js to make it visible after the page loading

Regards

[tarek01]

@Dormilich: That's odd. I viewed it in 3 different environments to check consistency. Windows Vista with Firefox 3.6 and IE7, and also a Mac with Firefox 3.6, and all 3 show the site appearing instantly, after about 1 second of lag.

@chathura: I'm aware the container DIV can be hidden beforehand, but this site doesn't seem to be using that technique, and I would be reluctant to use that method myself.

I've never seen a site, other than the example in my post, do this without hiding the root DIV. Any other ideas? Thanks.

[Dormilich]

@Dormilich: That's odd. I viewed it in 3 different environments to check consistency. Windows Vista with Firefox 3.6 and IE7, and also a Mac with Firefox 3.6, and all 3 show the site appearing instantly, after about 1 second of lag.

it may be due to me surfing with JavaScript disabled.