Thank you, it is always a pleasure and an honor to be included here.

Thank you for selecting my Mantis image for this week's gallery!

Awesome, I am delighted to be included in this fine group of images. Thank you!

Thank you. It is always a bit of a treat and a thrill to be picked! So many really amazing shots.

thank you, it always feels so great to be selected when there are so many awesome photos presented every week.

Glad to see the hotlinks are back.

Thank you so much from both me and Miss Softy. I am thrilled that her portrait was picked this week! Too bad about the links.

Thank you so much for the hard work you and your team do to make this happen.

I always feel so honored to be selected!! Thank you for including me in this wonderful selection.

I too share this problem and as peedy said it started about 2 days ago. The comments message comes through about 8-12 hours later.

Looks like you will be driving a small tank now. Glad you came out of it ok

Thank you for changing the white comment boxes to gray, that is a big improvement. I still think you need to go the extra mile and have white text on a gray background, just like you have here, but a good step in the right direction!

And thank you ever so much for giving us decent size boxes to put our text entries into. That is awesome. I have not bought any products from RMP as a protest since you went to the small boxes. Now I will consider buying and doing 3-d work again.

Good job. And I have to say this is the most positive response the community has recieved over a major site change that I have seen. I am impressed.

TinaK

Thank you for letting us know that you are at least considering our design issues and are focusing on technical right now.

So here is a technical one for you, it effects both the Galleries Page and the Market Place Page, at a minimum.

When you go to the Home banner and click on say Galleries, the drop down menu goes behind one of the underlying lower banners instead of on top of it. That mean options, such as My Home Page are not clickable because they are covered by an overlying banner.

And I agree with Antijee, My Galleries page is well buggered up now. That should be just my images showing up. For me this has to be a technical glitch and not a design issue because who would make a My Galleries Page that included 75% of stuff that was not My gallery??

Keep going girl. You are giving us the best feedback anyone has to date when a major design change hits us in the solar plexus.

No comment from you guys on the many, many complaints about the black text on a white background? Is this "glaring" design issue going to be addressed or not? I would appreciate some feedback on this.

Hi TinaK

I really do appreciate your" jump onto the problem" demeanor and I feel you are really listening to our concerns. Thank you.

In regards to the white box with black text, this clearly is just not working for most of us. You say you have made changes to bring the gallery in line with most of the rest of the site, but this is not true. For example, look at the forum, we have gray/black background and white text, and for the discussion on the changes it was also white lettering on gray background. So to be consisthat it should be white text on a dark background for the galleries.

We had this issue in the last upgrade and the white box was universally panned and you guys fixed it. Why would you go back to the white when it was not recieved well last time.

Black text on white works well on paper but not on a video screen. That is because a video screen casts light whereas paper absorbs and reflects light. So white becomes especially glaring in digital media. And jumping from gray screens to white screens is especially jarring.

Please go back to a dark background and white text - use the forum page as an example.

So you have a hotlink that says

Have you had a chance to check out the new and improved Galleries? "See Changes"

Now I would expect that clicking on that would take me to a text page explaining the changes but it takes me to the "What's New" gallery page. Is that intentional, because it seems very strange to me.

Please guys, why don't you beta test your changes and if you do beta test why don't you do a better job of it? This is the second major change in a matter of months with major screw ups. I just noticed that for the writers gallery there is now no text, only images and comments. Did no one catch that?

I really respect that you are making a sincere effort to change but this pattern of poor beta testing is just not professional. It happens every time. Someone in IT should be roasted on a spit, er, I mean, feeling the heat :-)