[Public-List] website (was: Circumnavigations)

[George Dinwiddie]

Kris,

On 10/20/12 11:07 AM, Kris Coward wrote:
> If something like this were to go ahead, could I ask that any new site
> maintain the existing site's commitment to keeping things
> lightweight/low-bandwidth? I frequently find myself looking to use it
> from spotty marina/club wifi connections, on which many "more modern"
> sites can take ages to load (if they load properly at all). I'd really
> rather not find myself trying to fix something at some far-from-home
> marina, and be unable to to get a helpful picture to load because it's
> on a website that's wasting all my bandwidth on some useless AJAX
> widget. I'm guessing that I'm not the only one with such expectations.

I'm delighted to hear you say that. Low bandwidth usage has been one of 
my design goals from the beginning, and is part of the reason the 
website looks "dated" to some. (Another part is my limited skills at 
visual design.) I'm glad that my attention to low bandwidth is appreciated.

  - George

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