How to avoid blank screen between page loads?

Question

I'm working on a site which must have no frames but the client wants me to eliminate the totally blank screen which appears before the next page is loaded.

The site is totally DIV based.

I remember to have read a couple articles about it but now I can't seem to find any of them. Perhaps you, seasoned developers have a quick answer to this age old problem?

Thank you.

Thank you very much, Injanier. I was hoping to gather some more answers but yours was very good since the beginning.

Answer 1

The blank page while the next page loads is unavoidable. You can use Javascript to preload things so subsequent pages will load from the cache. The tradeoff is that the home page will take longer to load. More simply, you can reduce loading time by keeping image sizes down and by re-using as much as possible.