I would like to enable certain elements on a site design to load only once. For example. A company logo appears on every page of the site in the same position. This only need to load once when the homepage is visited. I am aware that once each page of the site has been visited in a session, that this is stored as cache, but is there a way to enable this for set elements in the site when visiting ti for the first time.
South Africa is still plagued by capped bandwidth internet, which is also a little slower than the speeds found in the US and Europe, so we are continually trying to squeeze the most out of our monthly bandwidth subscriptions.
Then I think you should take a look at Sprite-images and using CSS to position them. I have no clue how to incorporate this into a Freeway site, but do know that this does what you mean.
The browser handles this for you, as long as the files are named
identically and have the same content, you don’t ever have to worry
about this. If you use Master Pages in Freeway, and are careful not to
accidentally merge one graphic with another, you can get this behavior
for free in Freeway. Its natural tendency is to never reuse anything,
sometimes with less-than-amusing consequences when you are building a
complex, content-managed site.
Walter
On Sep 16, 2010, at 3:17 AM, matt covarr wrote:
I would like to enable certain elements on a site design to load
only once. For example. A company logo appears on every page of the
site in the same position. This only need to load once when the
homepage is visited. I am aware that once each page of the site has
been visited in a session, that this is stored as cache, but is
there a way to enable this for set elements in the site when
visiting ti for the first time.
Thanks Walter, this sounds like the way to go. I’ll certainly apply the method strictly to the next few sites and see how it goes. makes perfect sense though the way you explain it.