Why do you have to make your page all kinds of 
terribly flashy? My own site is kind of bland as 
sites go, but that only means people don't come 
just to see flashy graphics. Why is that a bad 
thing? My site loads quickly (so I've been told) 
and the arrangement of the things on the site 
might not scream "creativity", but at least it's 
*MINE* and doesn't look like anyone else's.

On the other hand, I've long given up on visiting 
most Rubberslug galleries. Inevitably, the person 
has a HUGE banner, which (as was mentioned) needs 
to be reloaded each time someone goes to a new 
page of the site. Then the cel images load slowly 
too. I'm on a cable modem and it still takes so 
long to load Rubberslug pages that I never let 
them fully load. (*shrug*) So there goes your
"design" element, since otherwise Rubberslug 
pages all each look like every other -- one after 
the other cookie-cutter, identical layouts. 
There's nothing creative about that.

I guess I'd rather have "boring" than "copied" 
and (boring as my page may be) if I'm not going 
to take the time to put up something I consider 
good, then I'm not going to put up anything at 
all. To me, it's sad! The number of people I know 
have beautiful sites, going to Rubberslug because 
they "don't have time" to upkeep their site. It's 
a shame and a waste. But that's just my take on 
it. I've despised Rubberslug from the beginning.

Many Sharp Smiles,
--Drac