LOL Lee, your thread did take on a life of it's own. There should not be a difference between load times of a GIF thumb ora JPG thumb. But perhaps some way to indicate that the main image is animated would be useful. As it stands now, if you don't view an animated image at full size, you won't see animation unless the artist made it under 700 pixels wide. If I do an animation, I make sure mention that fact in my comments. As of now, there is no Animation Category, would would be nice to see. Seeing how many visitors are in a specific gallery when there would be a nice bit of info too. I personally am for keep in things related to photography in one Forum. It makes it a little easier than having to visit various forums for different things like Challenges. The idea to upload to just one thread for the monthly Challenges is a great idea and would help keep the clutter down. For things like Simons and DITIs though, I am not sure the one thread approach would work. They'd get awfully long and those poor souls on dial-up would have to wait ages for each page to load. Oops, got sidetracked and am only now getting back to this after about 3 hours. Better post it before I get distracted again...just will sum things up by saying I think there is room for everything we've been posting here up to now, but we could certainly streamline things a bit.

Kort Kramer - Kramer Kreations