Alot faster loading now, but it could get faster still. But it's at a much more tolerable rate now. :)

Thanks. I'll leave it as is for now. If things slow down too much after people start posting regularly, I'll make more adjustments. I look at a few other sites that seemed to be popular and some of them had image sizes with a greater total than mine does right now. I hope to have my extra traffic, from the hosted sites, removed soon as well. Thanks for all the input guys!

Those sites probably changed their styles after getting a decent no. of people visiting their forum. Also some forum administrators just shun dialup users and code style for broadband connections only, which I think is totally wrong. Compensate all connections and speeds and you'll get alot further.

Flooding a style with images isn't the only way to make one look good. :)

Well, after much thought and deliberation, as well as getting my site professionally hosted rather than continue doing it myself, I've redone my style completely. It still isn't appropriate for dial-ups, but I once this one is done, I'll be making a "Lite" version of it. Comments?

EDIT IN: the link so you don't have to scroll for it...

http://www.wizardingrealm.com

I quite like it, I'm not sure if the green links go well with your layout though. I do like your clipboard idea.

I couldnt get to your site. It timed out.

Interesting. Maybe the host was bogged at the time??? Thanks for looking though. Dean, I do plan to rework some of the icons and a few minor color changes. I haven't decided what I'm going to put in box four yet either.

I like the overall design and colors of it!

Thanks MM. I just adjusted my index a bit and added a Latest Users hack of my own coding. The nice thing about it is that if you hover over a name it gives the users reg date and current usergroup. This is nice because it helps me know who's joined but not verified thier accounts and so on. Take a look. If anybody wants the code just email me at albus@wizardingrealm.com and I'll send it to you.