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Lots of visitors lately, so that's why the front page sometimes changes to a simpler layout; it's a way of getting a little more speed for those on dial-up when the site is busy. Interestingly, it's not so much that more people are visiting lately as, although that's up, too, but the larger part of the traffic increase is due to more people looking at more pages each visit.

We had a few outages lately due to database overload but I think I've got that licked. Hope.

Oh, I swapped the right and left columns around because the old left column loads slower and putting it on the right means it loads AFTER the important part of the page so the lag isn't so annoying on slow connections.

Hugs,
- Erin

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Thanks Erin,

Angharad's picture

For all the hard work you do, it is appreciated.

hugs,

Angharad.

Angharad

Cheers, Erin…

That seems much better on both Firefox and Netscape9. Safari was never a problem

You offer a stupendous service to us nongeeks.

Hugs,
Gabi

Gabi.


“It is hard for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.” Thomas Hardy—Far from the Madding Crowd.

Oops!

Just sent you a PM asking about the swap, before reading anything. Sorry. Now, is there a "look" that moves the columns back for us old dogs who are comfortable with the previous setup?

Karen J.

"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way."

College Girl - poetheather


"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin

New theme needed

Okay, the looks are called themes, and I tried pretty much every one available. Can we get a variation on the new default theme that puts everything back the way it was? I'm one of those dial-up users and I'll trade the load time for the previous style. I know you have a lot going on right now, I don't expect you to drop everything to do this. Just a quick note saying you'll do it when you have the time will be fine.

Thanks,
Karen J.

"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way."

College Girl - poetheather


"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin

Hmm...

erin's picture

Yeah, I could do that. I'll try to work on it in the next few days.

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Thanks!

Thanks for the wonderful place, and your hard work. Also, thanks for this post. I thought I was loosing my mind. :-) Take care, and be well.

Phran

V92 and Yeah Hoo!

Not bad, Erin.

I do think it is faster than recently on my venrable V92 dialup.

Maybe the change over explaned why I couldn't access you for a while late this Sunday morning CST.

Thanks for that hard work.

John in Wauwatosa

John in Wauwatosa

Didn't Notice

Change? What change? Must be because I'm left handed or cixelsyd.

shalimar

New Theme - Reversi

erin's picture

For those who preferred the former arrangement of side bars, if you're logged in, you can now go to |My Account| and choose the "Reversi" theme which will swap the sidebars BACK where they once were. It also swaps the colors with pink on the right and blue on the left. :)

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Thank You!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Karen J.

"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way."

College Girl - poetheather


"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin

cross eyed

kristina l s's picture

You do get used to things so it is a tiny bit eye ball knotting having things switched about... but it does seem to load a bit faster. So, I'll give it a go for a bit and see before I try re- switching. Thanks for all your efforts Erin, it is much appreciated. Now if I can just get my eyes pointing straight again...

Kristina

Are they on the right way round?

Once again, I've been caught off guard and I thought I'd put my glasses on the wrong way round.

If it helps the site, then I'm all for it. A simple fix for a difficult problem - Well done Erin.

It was confusing, but having said that, cleaning my glasses DID help...

Nick

now, to fix the pumkin

When you can get to it Erin.... Halloween is over, and so is Thanksgiving, for us Americans. can we try something different from the cat in the mutilated squash?....

A.A.