Very long delay in internet explorer rendering a webpage

[AsGoodAsItGets]

Hello,

we have created this website http://www.webbuttonmaker.com and some dynamic pages under it using php/mysql. The main page http://www.webbuttonmaker.com/buttons takes too long to render in internet explorer while it renders progressively in firefox (haven't tested in other browsers). IE appears to hang while loading the page and renders it all at once in the end.

Any ideas why? Is it just the heavy use of tables for laying out the elements? Any ideas for a quick fix without having to rewrite the whole layout in CSS?

And another weird bug in IE:
When you click on the "Texture" drop down arrow in the same webpage, a layer with some texture thumbnails appears and you can move back and forth between pages of thumbnails on this layer. When you move to another page, a new set of textures is downloaded, and while each texture thumbnail is being downloaded, an animated GIF indicating that a download is in progress is being displayed instead. Again, this works fine in Firefox, but in IE the animation is stopped on the first frame.

Any workaround for this too?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Rowan W]

IE just loads things all in one go, there's nothing more to it really. The huge number of table cells does effect the loading time too, but otherwise I think it's unavoidable.

Have you also noticed how the progress bar is completely wrong all the time?

 

[skynet_atomic]

Maybe your browser is affected!