[madmax]

Hi Crew!

As you may know, we've recently experienced explosive growth here at FlyingGiants.com! Over the past few months we've seen aproximately a 75% increase in overall traffic, and our community is on fire! Great videos, photos, and superb content has been flowing in from around the globe, and I'm on a charge to make FG more bandwidth friendly, and increase page load times, and over all site performance.

In the coming days and weeks, you will notice some subtle changes in the way images and media are displayed in the forums, on the homepage, and throughout the site. In the community forums, you will also see that the uber huge images that take some folks forever to load have been reduced to smaller thumbnails for faster, and more efficient viewing. The page sizes throughout the website have been compressed on the back end too, things should seem a bit more snappy loading.

I have also spent a considerable amount of time re-working our menus throughout the site as well. The new menus are 100% CSS, and do not utilize Javascript. In the past, the menus were not very efficient, and users have reported problems. Good news is we're on track for even more expansion, and we're very excited about all that 2007 has in store!

Thanks again for your ongoing support!

Best -- Maxon Duncan