Can you check my links on the left hand side of my home page and see if they actually work. My firewall is preventing me from checking. Thanks. www.cometscourthouse.com If you notice anything strange happening it would not surprise me. I've had nothing but trouble with these hover buttons. Thanks in advance.
Ha ha. I would love to put up a pitcture of Tina Thompson giving Lisa Leslie the salute. Anyone got a pick... My only copy mentioning Lisa is buried in the Tina Thompson Profile..... Tina versus Lisa: Lisa Leslie has lost to the Comets a lot. And I mean a lot. So it wasn't too hard to see that Lisa Leslie would boil over when faced with yet another defeat. Her frustration reached a fever pitch in 1999. Former college teammate Tina Thompson began talking trash to Leslie as the 6-5 center made her way up-court. Leslie countered with a double forearm shove to Thompson's throat, prompting an immediate ejection. Thompson further agitated Leslie by giving a salute to the Sparks player as she left the court. Thompson was ejected for taunting but the game was well in hand. Tina mentioned that she was not upset at Leslie. She was simply saluting Cooper. Yeah, right. Anyway, it was an example of just how dominating she can be. Lisa Leslie was completely taken out of the game mentally. oops...I found some more copy, but it is more bad news for Leslie... The Ability to Walk Away: Janeth Arcain and the Comets have handled fame much better than NBA or NFL Champions have done. Another example of female superiority perhaps. When Janeth was "whacked in the face" by the Sparks' Lisa Leslie during the conference finals and no foul was called, she "simply walked away" and helped win the game. In the NBA a few players would have been ejected. Perhaps more than a few. It's a testimonial to the composure of Arcain. She's always going to be there for her team. Ready to contribute if called upon. Ready to contribute no matter how physical she is being played.
Phi: I'm glad you are doing a Comets site. It looks REALLY good. If I could make two suggestions just from experience... 1. Your file sizes are too large, particularly for the photo images. It causes your page to load quite slowly. Rather than having very large photo images that you simply force into smaller sizes using the img src=" " width="x" height="x" tag, make the actual image smaller. If you want it to link to a larger image, that's cool. Just make one smaller and link it directly to the larger image. In addition, compress the image as much as possible (as well as all of your graphics) without getting distortion. The Adobe Photoshop 6.0 "Save for web..." feature does this particularly well but there are other compression shareware programs out there. Generally, you want even your headline photos to be smaller than 20K. For a good example of this, see the large photos on the front page of cc.net. They are always relatively small in size. 2. The other thing that creates issues for some browsers is the use of Java Applets for your navigation. I know that with IE, it REALLY slows down the loading of each page. I would urge you to consider rollover graphics. You can make them fairly easily with Photoshop and Image Ready or you can use something like GoLive or even Dreamweaver. They load faster and don't create the compatibility issues.
