>Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:41:58 -0500
>
>Hiya... I have been meaning to drop you a line for sometime now. I have
>a concern about the Genweb sites that I think needs to be addressed. It
>seems that most of the State and County sites are running a contest to
>see who can have the fanciest web page. Some pages I have visited takes
>8-10 minutes to load. While fancy graphics, animated GIF's and music
>might be appropriate on some sites, it is not on genealogy sites. Most
>folks that visit only want to get information and to post information
>and get on with their lives. Recently I polled my local genealogy
>society of 120 members about GenWeb. None use it.. reason given was that
>it is too time consuming to make it worthwhile. You might want to set up
>some guidelines about the use of graphics, music, etc and pass them
>along to the State and County webmasters.
>
>A lot of time and effort has gone into GenWeb. Lets not make it an
>excercise in futility when it could be such a great tool for
>genealogists and others.
>
>Thanks
Perhaps tips on how to make pages load faster would be something the SCs
might consider passing along, as a gentle reminder to the CCs.
Tim