Thanks for all this help and tips everyone - we're working thru them all one at a time. As you should notice, we've widened the thread column for more content per amount of space. We've added back more topics to the front page - there are 50 but perhaps we can add more. Familiar link placement has been added back. Text size has been changed where appropriate. I suppose we'll add lines - for those of you with stronger monitor contrast it's not needed as you'll see that each post has a different background color but obviously that hasn't been enough. Adjustments to the Paw Prints have been made but there are much bigger ones to come, ones that unfortunately are at the mercy of available time. Regarding the ads; we need some time to at least test this placement. I understand the feeling about them however with the change, we no longer have room for a 468 wide pixel ad, the previous size. Additionally, as consolation, previously there were two ads, at this moment there is now only 1. As for putting them in the side bar, we will try it, but give us time to run this placement test first. Remember that Jaime, Mark and myself need some help in the costs of BPO.
Stryder, with all of the changes, we've reduced the amount of code being transmitted and loaded by almost 60 percent so it should load much faster. Additionally, it's much more compliant and should adapt to all browsers better, win/mac/lin, pda, phone etc.
Anyway, keep the feedback coming - like I said we're working on it. We hope you'll enjoy it more once we've got it all ironed out.
Michael~
