The Quest Webmaster is starting to monitor the total bytes of the home page and, in order to put a cap on how long it takes for the home page to load, we will be limiting the grand total of bytes.
Don't worry, we will still have the most feature loaded basketball home page on the Net, but even we are going to have a home page limit now, so that anyone with a high speed connection will be able to load the page in full in no more than about 20 or 25 seconds (instead of 30 to 35 seconds). Yes, believe it or not, 10 seconds matters on the Internet.
Just as you might go to some kind of lounge to rest after a game, the Quest for the Ring Lounge is where front page items go after awhile, to make way for new stuff.
The Lounge itself is going to fill up eventually. When it does, we will have to make a Lounge #2.
Features retired from the home page can also be moved to the first of several Quest archive pages, which is Quest for the Ring 2.
So we are moving the following items to the Lounge or to Quest for the Ring 2 or perhaps to both.
SAY GOODBYE TO THIS CLASSIC JR SMITH PHOTO (BUT WE MIGHT GET SOFT AND BRING IT BACK)
SAY GOODBYE TO THIS ONE, LAUGH OUT LOUD GEORGE KARL!
AND SAY GOODBYE TO THIS GEM
SORRY FITZ, THERE'S NO ROOM ON THE HOME PAGE FOR THIS PIC OF WHEN YOU (SORT OF) WON SUPER BOWL 43
THE CELTICS' RING MOVES OUT TOO
TWO IMPORTANT VISITOR FORMS CAN'T FIT ANYMORE
Two forms visitors can use to communicate with Quest without doing an email were moved off the home page to a new Contact Page.
REMOVED FROM THE SIDEBAR
Several items, most notably all the Pandora custom radio stations, were moved out a few weeks ago. Those Pandora stations were moved to the Music Page.
Today we eliminated the links to the live and archived radio broadcasts for most of the NBA teams, due to the fact that these were no longer leading to anything. One of the scourges of the Internet folks, is that links become worthless if the site the link goes to changes things or discontinues features.
Numerous Nuggets oriented sidebar features were moved to the Nuggets News Site, which was upgraded substantially recently, and is more than ever one of the best places on the Internet to go to see what's up with those wayward Nuggets. Specifically, the following features were moved there:
--Main Nuggets Menu, with links to transactions, injuries, depth charts, and so forth
--Nuggets Real Player Ratings (2008-09)
--Latest Nuggets Top Stories
--Nuggets player statistics and advanced player statistics
--Nuggets Big Media Links
--Latest News for Colorado and for numerous Colorado towns
--Useful Links for Colorado Nuggets Fans, including weather, traffic, airport, Pepsi Center, etc.
--Links to Colorado pro teams other than the Nuggets
--Links to Colorado college sports teams and to Colorado minor league teams
--Denver area weather
--Nuggets franchise information, for example, identification of top officials
--A few historical Nuggets pics were moved there also.
All of these features joined the already there up to the minute Nuggets news to form a powerful and popular resource for Nuggets fans.
There are plans for producing a Lakers news site with similar specs.
