Ron, we’re in a never-ending struggle to deliver a speedy site that is visually appealing. Most of the images on our pages are fairly small (both in dimension and filesize)… some of the older pages we have are admittedly not as efficient as newer ones (with superior HTML coding techniques that allow the page to display in your browser before the graphics actually load in). Please let us know if a particular area of the site is sluggish for you; we will attempt to optimize it as much as possible! Rest assured that the Streetplay development staff is not sitting in a ultra-wired offices with DSL/T1 lines all over the place. We’re just a bunch of people with using modems, like you. Some of our pages (photo essays) are graphics-only; in a great deal of them the images are typically 200×150 pixels and link to even bigger versions of the picture–they serve essentially as thumbnails, though not as tiny as an icon on a computer desktop. -Hugh McNally Director of development Streetplay.com

Hello everyone, We’re playing around with new and improved ways of displaying the discussion area on Streetplay. If you want to get the full effect, click here to view the revised “frame-view” discussions… tell us what you think, yo. Please note: all the great Streetplay discussions are still here… we’re just trying to make stuff easier for you to find. -Hugh McNally hmcnally [at] streetplay [dot] com

my e-mail to MicknPez [at] streetplay [dot] com gets bounced back