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Featured Photo 13-Oct-2003 At 4:21:08 PM Mike

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On 13/10/2003 phil_nev wrote:
>would it be possible to have a weekly featured photo..Mike, is it feasible???

Getting tired of looking at my super trad rack eh? Ah well. Given an infinate universe, everything is not only feasible, but has a 100% probabilty of occurring. :-)

But yeah, I've actually been thinking about working on an rc.com-esk home page, with dynamic content rather than the current static. A rotating selection of latest photos, the latests forum messages, latest up comming events, latest interview, latest book & movie reviews, etc. The only thing that has stopped me is time (or the lack there-of), and a fear that this would slow the loading of the home page a bit. Especially if the featured photo was to change each time the page was hit as it does with rc.com, because the user would need need to load the new pic rather than redisplay a cached item, and likely the photo would have to be a larger byte size than the fairly compressed image of my rack.

The web designer in me wants to keep the home page as fast to load as possible (so as not to discourge newcomers), while at same time being fresh and active looking for regulars. Tricky!

Anyway, point taken, and it's on the list of improvements to make. Certainly it would be fairly easy to manually update the home page with a "Pic Of The Week" kind of thing. I'll have a think about it. Leave it with me!