lklein@mindspring.com wrote: snipped > > As others have already noted, your slow connection is not RootsWeb's > fault or responsibility. That is not entirely true. The problem with today's web designers is that they are making no attempt to keep the file sizes down and are using all the bells and whistles available in the latest HTML standard. Just look at the source code file for most any page on the web today and you will see all the garbage that is in it, all taking time to download. It does not have to be that way. I manage a County GenWeb site and from day one I wrote all the HTML on the site in what I call "KISS HTML" (KISS = Keep It Simple, S****) - no CSS (cascading style sheets), minimized images and icons, nothing fancy. The HTML editor I use to write the code is the "wet-ware" between my ears. Check out: http://www.rootsweb.com/~qcchatea/ and see if you don't agree that it loads far faster than most web sites on the web. All the data is there, just no fancy "cool" features to clog up the download. It is not that hard to do but it does require a knowledge of the basic HTML tags (a couple of dozen of them) and how they are used but the modern web designers take the easy way out with a full feature WYSIWYG HTML editor like Frontpage and also want the page to look really cool. We who are stuck on dial up lines have to suffer the consequences. End of rant :-) Burt Lang - who does all my browsing on a 33K dialup line.