I'm wanting to give users of a site the ability to switch back and forth between the normal, image-heavy version of a site and a "lite", text-only version. I figure I can also use this to copy how Google offers to send you to the HTML-only version of Gmail if the page takes too long to load.

So far, I've identified two ways I could do this:

• Use the same page but build a separate, lite stylesheet and use JS to switch back and forth
• Build a new page, "/home2", which doesn't have any images or other heavy items, with normal anchor links between the two

Going the second route, it seems like I could force traffic to the lite page, if needed, and just remove the link to the normal page, while I'm pretty certain the first wouldn't actually take any load off of the server, if that's what I'm trying to do.

Has anyone else done something similar or, does anyone have any thoughts on what I outlined? I'm leaning towards the second option but, would like some other opinions.