Ponycar_302 - Glad to have you back. I hope you'll stay around and keep posting. What caught my eye here though is you said the site was slow... You know, a few people have said that at times, but I just can't see it. I've tested loading this site from multiple locations, on both dial-up and broad band services, and it always loads fine for me. In fact, with recent changes that have been implemented and those about to come with hardware/servers, it's only gotten and will continue to get better too. Any time I've tried, the site pages load in under only a second or two with broad band (cable/DSL) and in under 30 seconds (depending on the page) with dial-up. I just used my dial-up account on my laptop and loaded the forums homepage in less than 20 seconds with a 56K connection.
Most would not be aware, but Mustang Works has TONS of hardware power behind it. Mustang Works is actually now part of my company, McClain Technologies, Inc. that I formed this year. MTI has a 20 server data center with all dual processor IBM servers using high speed SCSI RAID arrays on a high speed internal network and is jacked into the Internet through a fractional T3. The main site, the forums, the media center, ad system, and the images that make up the site design ALL have dedicated servers for them. And, it's all about to get even more power by being switched from individual dedicated servers to being run on a hardware load balanced system served by a cluster of EIGHT dual CPU IBM servers. Man, I don't know what to do in order to make things faster and more scalable than that on this end!
Yeah, the site's graphical design is a bit "fat", but it's not that bad... especially on broad band. It FLIES over here with any testing I do on any kind of a high speed connection (not to mention sitting on the LAN).