flash (macromedia):
http://aslcenter.gallaudet.edu/template.html

My question for you related to the above Flash movie is - I added a
preloader. It works fine if you have a
high-speed connection, but when I simulate a 56k connection, the preloader
bar and % counter does not come on until about 60k or about 20%. I looked
at the AS and I can't figure out how to make it start at 1% - in other
words, much sooner.

i found a tutoral for this preloader at gotoandlearn.com . if you watch the
simple preloader movie, you'll see what i did.

if you'd like, i can post the FLA for you to download to take a look at.

Thanks...

you can see your preloader only after all ur contents in 1st frame has been
loaded, so keep the content in ur 1st frame as simple as posible might help.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=15&catid=19
4&threadid=1195139&highlight_key=y&keyword1=preloader

another way is to display the percentage as 1% at begin, no matter how many
percent loaded, and only increase slowly to the actual loaded percent after
that.