It does seem faster now... fingers crossed that's a permanent change and not just one of the transient "better" periods. I would have preferred a darker shade of blue that does not seem so prominent and distract from the thumbnails. My biggest worry though has now been removed! Between down-times yesterday, when I managed to visit the site late afternoon, the main area had changed to light gray background with black text. Then after a couple of minutes it went off-line again for maintenance. It was a great relief when I logged on in the wee small hours of this morning to find the familiar white text on black had returned. Phew!