If I could make a suggestion:

The site might use a little optimizing as far as animated graphics and scripts are concerned. There are so many animated gifs (found one weighing more than 1M), emoticons, scrollers, chats and what not each page takes a whole lot of machine resources and loading time (1mn average on Webwait).

I feel it is making this wonderful, useful and indispensable site a tad user-unfriendly.
But that's just my opinion; how do you feel about it?

Dante I agree, let me know what animated gif was more than 1m, I am attempting to make things smoother as we speak. If you have any suggestions let me know. Thanks for your feedback.

Thank you, Mr Admin

The huge gif file is nls7qw.gif, the "If we can't find it banner": 1.41Mo and 133140 pixels² of animation. Woof!

I was able to optimize it down to 332 Ko in Adobe Fireworks : http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...oup/nls7qw.gif but it's still a huge gif file.
I'll think about concrete suggestions this weekend while I'm off work.

Cheers.

Thank You! I have replaced it with the one you provided, at least now its a bit smaller in size. WooHoo! I never imagined it had become that large. I truly appreciate any and all help you can give.

good points...
.gif files are really huge in size so whenever you decide to save the file...
first you have to optimize for .gif
and also index the file so it compress's it down.... leaving you with 250 kb instead of 1mb or more...