dropdown menu is slow

[getyourbiglobster]

http://www.ctmremediation.com

the upper nav is reacting very very slow to mouseover.
any ideas?

thanks for the help.

[Maelstrom]

1 - Where did you get the code for the drop downs. It is likely in there. Either poor coding or something of the like

2 - I don't think number 1 is the problem. You whole site loads very poorly. It is jumpy and isn't smooth. It may have something to do with your cacheing turned off...try turning it on and just seeing if that helps any?

[Aes]

I think it has to do with Maelstrom's number one. I do not know client-side scripting overly well, however, I do not see how poor coding in the rest of the site design would contribute to the slow operation of the dynamic drop-down menus. If you know client-side coding then go through it and find any bad or unnecesary coding; otherwise post a thread in the client-side forums and I'm sure you'll receive some help! Good luck.

-Colin

[cow]

hmmm, at first glance it looks like it could be something with the drop down menu coding. but every other page on that site has the same slow loading problem.

try increasing the size of your background image from the 2x2 to 6x6, using the same pattern. it's likely that your problem lies in the combination of no-cache and having the browser render the bg image a thousand times.

[Maelstrom]

I did forget to mention that I loaded it in Opera (I assumed it wouldn't work simply because opera has no good support for dhtml . With Opera everything is fast and smooth. You menus come up quickly, with no content. This tell me that it is probably lengthy code. But it could depend on how you are populating the menus.