Another remark went like this:" Eh, yeah, eh nice design those pages, but err it's not very interactive, is it"?

I designed this webside on pages the size of a computer screen.
These pages load fast because they are small and, if you look closely at the bottom of most pages, then you will see one or two small dots.
Browsers usually check to see if files that are to be downloaded haven't been loaded before and are therefore allready in the Image Cache. Loading from Cache is much faster then downloading over the Web.

Therefore I start the download of the images while you are reading the PREVIOUS page. The images are shown as a 1*1 dot somewhere at the bottom of the page.
The whole scheme only works if one can be sure what the next page will be so that limits the users freedom of choice.
You can see the effect the first time you come to this page. The picture of the theatre from the INDEX page is displayed instantaneously, because it is allready in the Image Cache. The second one, the book cover is loaded while you read this and appears much later.
The images for the following page are loaded thereafter and appear as small dots way down on this page.
I found this trick in a book called "Creating Killer Websites" (ISBN 1 56830 289 4).