Angus Barclay, in New Zealand
>Hello Ellis,

I had my preferences on the previous incarnation of Wood Central set to make it look very similar to this new format, except without the advertisements on the right hand side. I had a "no frames" preference and used tabbed browsing to keep the index in one tab and message threads in other tabs.

I use Internet Explorer 7 on on a 6 month old Dell home PC with WindowsXP and a cable-modem. Pages travel the 8900 miles from your server to my PC just as fast as they did before. A few kilobytes of data for the advertisements shouln't slow things noticeably, so maybe the speed issues from people earlier in this thread were external to Wood Central and just happened to coincide with you making the change.

FWIW, I see unread messages in blue, read messages in green, current message in black and cherries on new postings since last visit, just like before the new format.

The upshot is that I see very little difference between the new and the old. The menu on the left has changed and there are a couple of advertisements on the right that weren't there before. If it takes a few extra advertisements to ensure Wood Central continues then I'm more than happy for you to shill for relevant vendors.

regards
Angus Barclay