[thelist] Slow-Load/No-Load Images

[Aileen Wrothwell]

Hey people,

I'm at the end of my rope here (I know, I know, tie a knot in it).  I'm
wondering if other folks have ideas about what's going on because I may have
just been working on this site for too long and can no longer distinguish
forest from trees.

My situation:
I am working on a site with replacement mouseovers.  (The buttons are blue
and the mouseover is red.) Yesterday, (before during and after FTPing) I
viewed the site through Netscape 4.6 and IE4 and everything looked great.
The blue buttons were all where they were supposed to be, and the red
mouseovers popped up just when and as they were supposed to. Historically,
I've had to go in and change the extensions from .gif to .GIF in FTP when
broken links show up after publishing, and this has always solved any
problems.  I did this yesterday and all was going swimmingly.

My problem:
This morning, when I loaded the pages, they still looked and worked great
locally, but the buttons are wacky when I view them online.  In Netscape,
the buttons are completely invisible, no broken links showing, or
alternately, the blue buttons (image a) appear, but the red (image b)
mouseover never shows up.  In IE, the blue buttons (image a) show up as
broken links, then they all appear (but not at the same time, alas), and
then they all disappear and show as broken links again. I should add that
the IE process takes an excruciatingly long time, and even I can't tell when
it's finished loading; it will say "Done" at the bottom, and then when I
hover over the link, I get another message that says it's still loading.  If
I can't tell when it's done, how in the world will visitors know it?  I
tried renaming the file extensions as I mentioned above, but it's just not
working.

The site is under construction where it currently lives at

http://www.stonebikini.com/canapsindex.html

Anyone have any suggestions?  More thanks than you can imagine, Aileen

Aileen R. Wrothwell
Stone Bikini
http://www.stonebikini.com
aileen at stonebikini.com