Change Of Format?

Your images look like the images (size wise) as those on my pages. It is perhaps your dial up connection/ISP.

Thanks for replying Rick, so all pages are showing the original 'medium' icons of galleries and images as they usually appeared, and not extremely large images as I am seeing?

All gallery images are now showing in full size, one per row, which takes up the whole screen as opposed to how it normally looks where you see 4 medium icons per row showing galleries or images.

Yes, we have site changes which are ongoing until the end of March... At that time the coders should have finished rolling them out. We have new products coming in the next week or three also

The images are larger... If gallery images you need to re choose as logo and submit, to recreate new thumbnails

They are not one per row... Shrink your screen a bit.. Sounds like it has been enlarged

Thank you Lady. I'll check site from a dsl connection in town and see if it is just happening here. I sure hope this isn't a new change that will be permanent for me and make this site no longer workable for me at home. The ease of use, and its perfect compatability with my slow connection but still have ability to view 'all' photos on 'all' pages is why I chose FAA in the first place. As is, I will no longer be able to be active on here. Too slow with changes and images are no longer all loading and all I see is red exes on most images that won't load. More frustration than pleasantry now. Same thing happened to facebook last year and I no longer use that anymore either. :(

I'm seeing the enormous thumbnails on my galleries page, too, but only with my Android tablet browsers. On my PC they look normal. Odd.

Funny Troy... on my android they look normal.

When entering contests, all thumbnail/icons appear normal and page loads normal. Perhaps the problems occuring in my gallery/images are just a temporary glitch due to developer changes and it will work itself out. I sure hope so. I love this site and don't want to be forced off.

I do like the way our pages now have "NEXT" in big letters at the bottom in the middle, I have had people not find a particular image because they only looked at the first page. Some pages only had one image on the bottom line which made it look like it was the end.

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Wait they still make dial up?

I really like the different size image thumbnail in each gallery. Nice touch, to match how the images show up on the Images tab. I know more changes are to be made, I just hope the image size thumbnail for each gallery rolls over to our AW sites.

Thomas, yes dial up still exist. I will never use it again, but I can see how some areas only have access to dial up.

Dial up? So so sorry. I could never do it that way. I so used to very high speeds.

FWIW, I think the large thumbnails being shown are way better. More image, less text. The more they see at a glance, the more likely they are to buy, in my opinion. Remember, you page view will usually get about 10 seconds, max, and then it's on to the next page. Hopefully your own image, but they won't hang out long on the first click on your image.

Regarding bandwidth, loading speed, you have to target the most common customer. If you target the slowest customer (regarding bandwidth) then you are probably targeting the customer with the lowest budget. Most people have broadband these days, not dial-up.

I'm rural and dial-up is that is available in our area. Since this seems to be permanent changes, it looks like I will no longer be able to use FAA. The changes with the huge images will no longer load on my computer and I can't view others artwork, or my own. It took 20 minutes for one image to load. Very dissapointed as I just spent the last six months uploading here with intention that this would be my site for life. I wish I had known they would change things prior to signing up for the premium package, and wasting all these months working on this site. Now it is worthless to me. Again, very dissapointed to be forced off of FAA. I had loved this place.

As for them targeting the common customer Gregory.... Their system worked fine for you high speed users last week, as it did for me, a slow speed user. So how have their new changes made a difference except alienating some of their clients. I think that is bad business practice. Just my opinion. Sad to leave here.

I have checked out the new changes on a dsl computer and it appears to be different than what I am viewing at home. At home, one image takes up the entire screen and there are no rows. With DSL connection, it doesn't seem to differ much from the way it was. I can see 5 images per row, just a tad bit larger thumbnails. I hope this is just a glitch within the system, due to changes, and it soon reverts back to normal at home for viewing what I see on faster connection. Like it was.

Trouble is that the vast majority of web pages today simply aren't designed to work on dial-up connections. It's not FAA's fault that your area has only dial-up available. Expecting them to design web pages that support dial-up connections is a bit like expecting GM to keep new parts in stock for a '72 Caprice. It's not bad business practice, it's a good practice if you're the one running the business. The cost in time and effort to test and support legacy setups is enormous.

Do you have cell service? 4G? Why not get a WiFi hot spot that uses 4G? Even 3G would be far better than a dial-up connection. And it wouldn't necessarily cost more than a broad band connection.

Cell phone works only near one window. I bought the satellite internet connection for $99 for a limited amount of usage for fast service (unlimited isn't available), and in three hours viewing only images only for a project, I used up the entire months package. After that it was as slow as dialup. It just isn't worth it for a few hours of fast service. I don't wan't to go through this again on another site after spending 6 months networking, making buisness cards, hand delivering to businesses and doing advertising with FAA as my only contact regarding my art. Really messes me up. Live and learn. I guess, I'll just have to figure out another gameplan to sell my artwork. My images aren't even visible at all now. I'm still hoping this is just a glitch in their system and the bugs will be worked out soon.

Jennifer, can't you use your artists web site, I don't think that has changed in the last couple of weeks and still has smaller thumbnails - it may load quicker

Edit - I must admit, this new layout looks a bit of a mess at the moment, with some of the artwork titles cut off in mid steam - hopefully this is just someone messing around and it will be back to normal soon

I'm having issues also. Not all of my image thumbnails load and it's different images that load when I refresh. I have a comcast connection, and I think it's the 50mbs package, which I don't think is considered a slow connection at all. The images will load when the link is selected, but the whole idea of clicking on the link is to see the thumbnail at large scale. I have a hard time thinking people will click on a link that doesn't show a thumbnail. Something isn't right.