HTML - Preloader

Hello,

I'm not the best web designer (I used frontpage!), but I've got a question. I have a flash file in my website and the flash file always loads (and starts playing) before the background loads. Is there anyway I can create a preloader (in frontpage not flash) that will load all the contents of the site first and then display it?

Thanks for the help!

Hi guys.

I'm doing a website for a friend. All is going well but I've hit a couple of problems, the first I think is pretty easy to solve but I can't for the life of me remember what to do;

I want some of the main images in the site (logo, background etc) to remain in cache so that when the user flicks pages it doesn't need to load them.
I tried a CCS style form but placing the background image (a white square basicly) exactly where I want it, isn't easy.

Secondly I want to use a preloader on the site, that preloads all the pages first. I have a series of images that I want to load as part of the progess indicator & want some to apper at say 20% another at 30% etc. Once all the background stuff is loaded it would then automaticly move on to the index page.
I've had a play in flash & can get the series of images to play but have no idea how to get this to intergrate with the HTML.

Thanks in advance.

Ross