[lil_cat_luver]

What are your opinions on image preloading/preloading scripts?
Are they really all that useful?
Would you rather wait before entering the site (and not see anything except a loading bar) or wait while on site for the layout to load (but be able to read textand other non-image content)?

Oh, this excludes preloading for rollovers. An example of exactly what I'm talking about is here: http://www.graphiclove.net/ (not mine)

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Pointless preloading most things IMO as it just adds extra traffic and uses up disk space and if the web browser is set up in such a way to check for new graphics on every page load, that user will just end up preloading the images again and again on every page.

Rollovers; fine. Everything else is not really worth it in my opinion. But even in this modern age of super fast internet connections, preloading may become unnecessary at some point.

[Neil Jones]

Pointless preloading most things IMO as it just adds extra traffic and uses up disk space and if the web browser is set up in such a way to check for new graphics on every page load, that user will just end up preloading the images again and again on every page.

Rollovers; fine. Everything else is not really worth it in my opinion. But even in this modern age of super fast internet connections, preloading may become unnecessary at some point.

[Mile Runner]

same as neil's, preloading for rollovers is a must, otherwise unnsessary unless your entire site is one large image. and i am sypathtic to dial up people, because i am one.

[lil_cat_luver]

Yes, I've always thought that preloading for rollovers are necessary, but I wasn't sure about regular images and layouts and such.

Thank you both so much for the input, they're very helpful