Thanks for your feedback and sorry to hear about the slow pages loading on a 56k modem. If the pages are loading slow on broadband it means that the server hosting the site is experiencing some temporary performance issue. The thing is we're still on a shared server, with lots of other peoples sites, so if one of their is misbehaving it can have a direct impact on ours. Also the hosts have had a bit of difficulty of late with a faulty server that keeps having to be rebooting (each time bringing the site down), they thinbk they've got it fixed now so we shall have to wait and see.
The matter of slow pages on 56k is a different one, and will need a different approach. First of all I exclusively use broadband so I either need to set up a modem connection or get a piece of software to slow down my connection to 56k (yes, they do exist!). Then I can see for myself how bad it is. The new revamped site I would have thought, would not have had much impact. Although, as the site grows the pages need to load more menus - and the slicker header graphics make them slightly larger size. The other thing is the advertising, which is a necessary evil I'm afraid. Still I'll certanly make it a priority to take a look at ways of speeding up the pages, I'm sure there's some things that can be done.
In the meantime thanks for your comments, please keep them coming in - otherwsie I simply wouldn't know there was a problem.
Paul.
