What else should I add/change on this board?

[PierreC]

I think I need to put more links to forums and discussions on the website to get more traffic..any other ideas?

[Frank Riley]

There are so many things you could do Pierre. Not sure exactly what you had in mind, I am wondering were all the Dokic fans went, she is not finished yet? But you could go around and link your site to as many other sites as you can. I did that with my site, I have a link page.
Also, there are players you dont have, Vaidisova comes to mind. Maybe if you put down your ideas Pierre we could then see what you have in mind and talk about those ideas first. You have lots of experience in web sites, maybe more than anyone here. Let us know what you are thinking Pierre.

About how slow things are in Tennis, I think we need to understand that things are just slow for the following reasons: Kournikova is not coming back and we all know that now, Dokic is not in good form anymore (really hurting this Dokic Section), Sharapova did win Wimbledon but over all she has sucked in every event after that not reaching the final rounds at all. It just seems that to many players are hurt and things seem crazy in tennis because you can not predict anything anymore. Even the Williams sisters are completely out of form. I am not sure what to do about the crazy nature of tennis right now but it is affecting the fans and fan sites.

[PierreC]

Hello Frank,

Thanks for taking the time to reply to my post, well actually, yes I do have some ideas and will certainly try to post them and get some feedback once I come back from New York!

I do agree, tennis, or in fact the WTA, is having a rough time. Most of their star players are out for various reasons, I can't remember the WTA having so little going well.. I mean Sharapova was good for tennis, Golovin would be good... I think tennis needs the Williams sisters healthy and well so we can get the Belgian-US rivalry back.. Davenport playing well helps but still... Russians well it's good but still too little stars..

Actually, the ATP seems so much better off these days, Federer, Roddick, Hewitt, Haas, etc.. So many stars, and they are only improving, add to that a player like Agassi and you have a tour that's doing well. In fact, last year I saw almost as many ATP matches in NYC than WTA and it will probably be the same this year...

But I think all these things come and go and tennis is such a great sport that I'm confident the WTA will be back soon with much to offer its fans..!

Anyway, about the board I will try to gather my thoughts and post them here, feel free to do the same:D

Pierre

[conchita slice]

well in my completely biased opinion i think u should remove henin and serena from the pictures above ;) lol :)

[Frank Riley]

Very Funny ;)

[vutt]

Pierre! You must very angry at your Internet connection. ;) MB header pictures are all together over 100k big. Of course lot of users ISPs these days are using some kind of proxy caches, but still possible 100k “bonus” on every page view?!? :eek:

I had to add to my personal firewall "special" rules in order to disable those pics. Life felt much quicker after that. :D And I have 1MB DSL connection. I wonder what dial-up users are thinking about that...

[PierreC]

hmmm good point Vutt...any idea though what proportion of users does not use proxy cache..

[vutt]

hmmm good point Vutt...any idea though what proportion of users does not use proxy cache..

Well actually I overlooked local browser cache thing. Every browser has it's own local cache so theoretically header picture will be downloaded only once per session, but my laptop IE browser somehow downloads that header on every page view while Modzilla/Firefox on my home PC does not.
:confused:

[Kirilenkofan]

I don't have such a quick connection but it works fine from here...!

Looks good, you just need to add Maria K ;)