I’m a down to earth, get straight to the point kind of guy, and the first order of business is that if you don’t care for the download time required to view all the components of these pages, too damn bad–you need to get a broadband internet connection.  If you take the time to let everything download on a dial up connection you need to get a life, becuase the one you got will be half over by the time it finishes…Second, in many ways I’m the mastermind behind Kitty’s Playground.  Lisa drew up the look she was after on a piece of paper and I designed the CSS and tables template that a majority of pages used throughout the site.  She’s received a large number of compliments via ICQ and email regarding the layout of the site, and so after short deliberations I’ve decided to keep the current layout of the site intact.  While I’ve played with several concept pages utilizing flash and intensive multimedia elements, I’m not going to jump on the redesign bandwagon as everyone else has.

Which brings me to the third issue.   This recent redesign bandwagon seems to have one thing in common throughout all the sites that have overhauled their appearance.  They’ve went from straight black backgrounds with heavy usage of graphics to a very good balance of graphics, text and white space as it is called in the publishing and web design business.   Coincidence that Kitty’s Playground was the first non-standard (non-black background, non graphical) Trade Wars website?  Coincidence that several other sites have switched to very similar layouts?  I think not…