Huhu,
I'm on the finishing line of my new website, I just have to fix some issues to solve:
Triggering the right pageload event
My Navigation on the bottom is custom made, basically just boxes with links in it and I tried making the whole box clickable for convenience. The problem now is I feel like inserting a link through jquery or even through linking a website on a piece of text is triggering a different "loadpage" event than clicking on my project thumbnails or on clicking on a menu made with the laytheme menu tool. It's triggering a reload of the whole page which runs into issues (first: speed and it doesn't look nice, second: "about" is not opened as an overlay anmyore but as a split screen page on the right side.
Is there any way to trigger the "laytheme version" of loading a new page with code?
Tracking the active project
If yes this would be very convenient as I think then it would also be possible to give the currently clicked portrait or menu point an "active" status and let it stay in color or inverted during the time the user stays on this menu point.
Speed and reliability
Clicking on a project thumbnail changes the url in the browser immediately. Actually triggering the load of the page can take up to 5 seconds or not happen at all/just with another click on the project thumbnail. How to fix these issues? This actually makes being on the website not very enjoyable and unreliable. All photos have been resized by upload for long side 2500px and they are around 800kb in size. Carousels take a really long time to load as well but I guess this is more about size optimization with photos but I still think it's taking too long. I read in your guide about how to make the websites faster with choosing a hoster focused on speed. I'm at strato, didn't have any issues yet but ofc I cannot tell if it is something to do with the hoster and don't have anyone to do some testing with on a fster system tbh. But I feel like this souldn't be happening like that.
THX <3