New Look Coming Soon
Announcements Sunday, February 7th, 2010Friends:
I have no doubt that you’ve noticed how slowly the site loads. This is partly due to increases in traffic.
However, the other part of the equation is the existing skin, or “theme”. We love it, but it is code-heavy and inefficient. It loads a tremendous amount of code with each page load, but it is too complex to operate properly with plugins designed to speed things up.
We have realized we need to try something new in order to maintain a good experience for you as the site continues to grow.
We’ll be trying out a new look over the next few days. There will be plenty of code editing required in the change.
If the site happens to be down, or look really out of whack, please give it a few minutes and hit refresh. Whatever’s wrong, we’re working on it.
Don’t worry. The database is safe.
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Jenny Donati is webmistress and co-editor of Secular News Daily. Jenny is an outspoken secularist who believes firmly in the separation of church and state. She demands evidence to support arguments, and holds herself to the same standard. She doesn't write about herself in the third person . . . but there's a first time for everything.You can follow comments on this article through the RSS Comment Feed. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry.
Wow. ySlow says ~700 KB unprimed, 112 KB primed.
Considering how simple the design is, that’s one REALLY heavy site.
Can’t blame you for wanting to optimise that.
If you have any recommendations, I’d be happy to hear them.
The version you saw when you wrote this comment (we’ll be trying others as well) was the first “new” shot. It loads about 3-4 seconds faster than the original, which averaged 9 seconds/page!