I have a slideshow on one of my pages which is a bit of a mashup between this slideshow module: http://silverstripe.org/slideshow-module/ and a jquery random image display script.
It works quite well.
The problem I have, is loading times of the page.
According to Firebug's Net tab, the css is loaded first, then the js, then the images for the slideshow, and then finally the css refereneced background images.
Is there any way that I can make the background images load before the slideshow images, as they obviously hold visual structure of the page. It takes quite a while for all of the slideshow images to load, which therefore holds the whole site up.
Any ideas?