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NickD
08-Sep-2003, 07:45 AM
Hi

I like to send out regular e-mailshots to my ever-growing mailing list, and to include links to various bits of my website - including sometimes a link to a brochure page. These links work, but there are some strange effects which can seem confusing and which I would like to eradicate if possible. Take the following example:-

http://www.nickdobsonwines.co.uk/acatalog/Regular_Case_Scheme.html

This is a link to a brochure page. However when you use it, it takes you first to the page concerned (without the frames which would normally surround it), THEN to my home page for a few seconds, and THEN to the correct paged, correctly framed. All of which takes quite a few seconds and is confusing to the user - it looks like they have been taken to the wrong place, as it seems to hesitate at the home page for most of the overall delay.

From what I can make out, this only happens with links to brochure pages - not with direct links to products.

Any ideas, anyone?

Nick Dobson :confused:

Ben
09-Sep-2003, 12:46 PM
Hi Nick

I can see what you mean and I've seen this before. I've requested help from our development team on this and will post their response.

Ben

NickD
09-Sep-2003, 12:57 PM
Thanks Ben - I await developments with interest.

Regards

Nick

Ben
10-Sep-2003, 03:00 PM
Nick

You can improve the page loading by linking directly to:

http://www.nickdobsonwines.co.uk/index.html?http%3A//www.nickdobsonwines.co.uk/acatalog/Regular_Case_Scheme.html&BrochureBody

It's still not totally clean but it's an improvement.

Ben