A few changes to the Generals World homepage that have been under development went live today. The underlying HTML code has been rewritten for the first time in about 3 years, reducing the average page size from 90KB to 60KB.
The server will now also cache page requests internally, improving loading times. Also, the homepage now uses a few less images, which should also help the page load a bit faster as well.
There are however a few visible changes that should be addressed: the logo chooser and the login box have been removed due to technical reasons. To my knowledge the logo chooser wasn't all that popular, but if you used it frequently and disagree, feel free to
email me and let me know.
The login box has been removed temporarily as a result of upgrading the technology that powers Generals World. The login box was never associated with the
Generals World Forums, so essentially its sole use was in conjunction with posting news comments - however, the news comments pages already have a login box present on them, so this shouldn't be a problem.
If anyone has any comments or questions about these changes, or if anyone sees any new error messages as a result of them, please
let me know.
8/9/06 Update: A problem with the poll voting system has been identified and fixed.
Last edited by Mike on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 11:32:48 AM.
