New "Today's Posts" Page

I'm trying a new "today's posts" page that is now under the "Todays Posts" link in the forum toolbar above.

Previous versions of this page were exceeding 200k of just HTML. This combined with being one of the more popular pages on the site is slowing some things down.

The new layout uses 100k less HTML for 18 hours of posts. It's less attractive than the old version, but it should load much faster, and get the point across. Let's try it for a while and see how it works out.

hmm i just saw it. Pretty good. Although its going to take some time to get used to the new layout.

I prefer it neatly structured!

Cant say i agree with this change

Looks nice though, its just not my cup of tea.

It does load a bit faster now. And that should help the members who have dial up.

It's true that it's a bit faster

Good Job Wil

Originally posted by David
I prefer it neatly structured!

So do I, but this one page is responsible for .6 gigs of bandwidth in 5 days, and is the 8th most popular page. While overall bandwidth isn't a problem, I am concerned with overall performance.

The HTML that defined the table structure makes up 60% of the HTML of the page... that's a lot of tags and no real information other than structure.

I think it looks fine.

Same as all the other changes, just something we'll get used to. In a couple of days you will forget what it even used to look like before.

At home I am forced to use dial-up...which can sometimes be a night mare, however the new layout (on todays posts) is taking between 1.86 and 1.93 seconds to load...That is the best and worse I have gotten. This is much faster than before.

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It does load faster, but the new design messes with my head

Yeah, i also have the page set to reload every 30 or 60 seconds, (i now turned that off)

Thats how i always reply to fast

Damn....nice job William

Loads faster but i'm agreeing with Dragonrider...the design messes with my head!

Sorry!