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Old October 21st, 2006, 06:47 PM
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Your website navigation is getting worse

Now the pages take forever to load and I'm on a wicked fast connection so I know its not me. The clicks at the end of typing in the question must have been thought up by a lobotomized chimpanzee with severe mental retardation. Why click - what - 7 times or so? Each time all those irritating Google ads have to reload. More time wasted.

Wake up your web designers! Have everything on 1 page so the user just clicks 7 areas or boxes and poof - off the question goes. Also when clicking those boxes there are what looks 2 boxes at the bottom of each page. But the second one doesn't even work! You can't click it because the page reloads with more options. More bad design.

Why make it so intermidably awful to use your site? If the free area is so aggravating, do you think that is going to help the paid area? I - don't - think - so.

The Notifications thing still doesn't work. Hasn't worked since the website has been revised. I'm using latest Opera with latest OS X. It says I have 2 notifications when its me responding.

You need to have MY QUESTIONS at the top of the page. We have to hunt for it - buried in Notifications. You've got lots of room.

FREE TECH SUPPORT sounds like a feature. Not a destination. It should be ASK A QUESTION.

Who designs this stuff? Monkees? C'mon you guys/girls. You have a great premise of a site that is hampered by unthinking designers. Put yourself in the public's place and see how irritating it is to do things. THEN you will get things right. You always have to put yourself in the customer's shoes. (Then you'll be far away and have their shoes....lol.)
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The ads are there for a reason, those ads help to keep the website stay up.

If you dont like the ads, then there is a way to remove it. Firefox with Adblock extension can do this. i use it all the time
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Old October 21st, 2006, 08:35 PM
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You may have issues with the website but there's no reason for name calling. Scott does this all on his own in his spare time FOR FREE despite having other issues in his life at the moment.
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Old October 22nd, 2006, 09:36 PM
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I don't know how fast your wicked fast connection is, but it doesn't take forever for the pages to load on my machine.
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I was actually surprised by the loading speed when I was on vacation this week. The connection was slow to begin with, and it was over an 802.11b network, but I didn't notice much of a difference from the higher-speed, wired connection I have at home.
I'm sorry that the site design doesn't fit your criteria, but it works fine for our needs.
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The ads are there for a reason, those ads help to keep the website stay up.

If you dont like the ads, then there is a way to remove it. Firefox with Adblock extension can do this. i use it all the time
The last time I downloaded a major update the speed was over 1000 kb/sec. So its really fast. Its not the ads - its the design. I addressed specific points which nobody has responed to.
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Old October 23rd, 2006, 11:48 AM
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Remember too that the creator of this site does this in his spare time. Might want to take things into consideration before you go off on a design "witch hunt".
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