Re: A marathon site: Please critique.

At 08:55 PM 1/3/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello:
>
>Please critique the following site for the Cincinnati Heart Mini-Marathon:
>
>http://www.cinheartminimarathon.org/
>
.......
>I am particularly concerned about the "Race Results" page.  If you click on
>any of the race results, it takes forever to download each page, because of
>the size of HTML file.  

Your site presents a particularly acute case
of the fact that a table is not rendered by a browser 
until all of its elements are read in.

This is a good puzzle!  How about this - 
End your first or "outer" table immediately after the last graphic
on the left cell, "Entex".  This will get finishers 1-10 or so.

Start the next table (say 11-50) right away, no <br>,
same size, and it will butt up against the table above it.
Next table 51-100. Repeat, repeat, etc.

Since each table is ended, they will render as they are filled,
and you wait for each 50, rather than all 250.
Will that work?

Hope this helps!

jimmy

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