How to use Javascript to prevent the side effects of a slow loading widget.

[NathanKP]

If you are the owner of a blog that incorporates any slow loading widget then you have probably experienced the seemingly unavoidable effects: the post section loads first, but the background of the post section or sidebar doesn't fill in until everything in your blog's sidebar finishes loading. Or, a slow widget in your sidebar prevents everything else below it from loading until it is done loading. I began experiencing this difficulty myself after I added several widgets to my blog's sidebar.

Fortunately I have now developed a technique which eliminates this formerly unpleasant effect. I wrote a tutorial at:

How to Improve Blog Load Appearance

Hopefully this coding tutorial can be of help to you.