Pages Jump When Navigating

[monica]

Here is an example: http://www.metroholistic.com

When I navigate from page to page then new page jiggles horizontally for a fraction of a second before settling. When I revisit the pages they are fine (because they are in my browser's cache, correct?)

[jimhanus]

I see what you mean, but can't see any reason for it. It's does it in both Firefox and IE. Is it possible to post the file or is it too big? Does it also do it when previewing?

Jim

[gwpriester]

You should have warned me that I would be instantly assaulted by an officious voice when I followed the link.

I am sure there is a good reason to have that voice start up on page load, but I for one find that offensive and will be off a page like that the second I hear the voice. The page is about healing art, not hearing aids.

[BQ]

I have also noticed this "jumping" behavior on a number of xara designed websites that others have posted. I've also seen it on some of the websites that I have created with web designer. I find the behavior quite annoying and it takes away from the professionalism of the website. It would be nice to find out the cause of it. Hopefully someone from Xara will stop by and help in troubleshooting this problem.

[monica]

gwpriester - sorry about the audio assault - just playing around with that. Traditionally I do not put any sound on a website but this is an experiment. Let me know if you need your hearing healed.

I hope the jiggling is resolved because most of the Xara websites I have created have this problem. I will keep checking in.

[monica]

okay - maybe not "most" of the xara websites ... http://monicaswebsitedesign.com/portfolio.htm

[BigWave]

Thanks for posting this, Monica. I've got the problem, too, on several new sites I've designed. I've been researching this for a while now, and have tried making the pages the same length, making the copy the same length, forcing scrollbars into the pages via CSS tricks, blah, blah. I honestly never noticed it before. Here's a site under development where the problem is quite pronounced. I just rebuilt the entire site from scracth, each page was duplicated from the index one at a time, just to make sure there were no sizing issues from page to page. In that test, no jump when I added "Services" and "Gallery"; once I'd added "Quote" and "About Us", the jiggling started to appear when navigating back towards "Home". (Hope that makes sense). Again, this site is under development, so it's raw right now:

http://extremelogorugs.com/new/index.htm

Dave

[Inge]

Hi Monica,

I had the same 'jumping', but I found out out that if I change the renewal frequency of the pages in IE, from every visit to a lower frequency, the jumping is gone. Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Inge