http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ Weblogtoolscollection News Topic: Not loading the sidebar en Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:23:09 +0000 http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/not-loading-the-sidebar#post-1302 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:36:50 +0000 Truden 1302@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>I was thinking today about my collapsing side-bar, which I implemented in <a href="http://wordpress.mu/65.html">Collapsing Blue</a> wp-theme.<br /> You don't see it when it's collapsed, but it still loads in hidden DIV.<br /> If a user wants to hide it, then it is not needed for that user.<br /> Then why wasting bandwidth and server recourses with this user if we can save some?<br /> It is also not good to load Google ads if the user don't see them and don't use them.</p> <p>The solution is easy.<br /> I just had to make check for the cookies and not to load the code of the side-bar if it is collapsed.<br /> You can test it on my side bar.<br /> Collapse it and load another page.<br /> Then open it: <em>empty</em>.<br /> A small message is telling you that the side-bar will load on the next visited page or on "Refresh".</p> <p>Not bad idea, eh? </p>