As a professional web designer and programmer, so far I don’t like it. There are to many references to outside websites, and it is costing this site a lot in performance. It takes pages a long long time to load even on our universities very fast network. Some of these connections to other sites are timing out and preventing pages from loading at all.

I would suggest tweaking some of this stuff. It appears to be getting held up on ad-serve requests, or maybe some sort of traffic monitoring service.

I’m fine with the typeface changes, but like Tater596 it’s moving like a snail on my work’s network (where I get most of my posting done- lol).

The problems seem to be when connections are made to:

sitemeter.com

Also, I am not having nearly as many problems in Internet Explorer as I am in Firefox.

…is it just me or are extra breaks between paragraphs not registering right when we submit a post? The text is getting compressed because the site is now eliminating extra carriage returns.

Tons of empty space. It looks like somebody’s bad web design class project.

It’s running a little faster this afternoon than it was this morning. My work has IE 7 though… so I’ll test with Firefox at home.

Though the pages do tend to load more slowly than in the past.

The site is running vastly faster on my work PC that has IE than my home network with Firefox.

For all other sites my hope PC is 2-3 times faster than my work.

This must be a sign of the end-times.

some bugs have been worked out regarding load times. Lot’s of similar comments to those above regarding the white spaces, fonts, pictures being centered, etc…The Techies have asked for a little more time to work on it so hopefully the they can get is scraight.

Sometime you have to take a step back to move 3 steps ahead (my positive spin of the day!)