RE: UKNM: Egg.com website

[Jo]

Every time I try to look at the site, Netscrape crashes...


> The Web site is beautiful. Pity it is completely unusable.

> 

> I accessed it over a 2 megabit/s line and a 266 Mhz Pentium wih 64 megs of

> ram and it took me more than 30 seconds to get through to the second page. 

> 

> i don't understand the emphasis on the gloss, the panache, rather than

> getting straight to business.

> 

> i wonder if Yahoo! would ever have reached 4.5 billion page views a month

> if it had been that slow--and emphasised the limits of HTML, animated .GIFs

> and the like, rather than on delivering functionality to end users.

> a

> 

> At 12:41 13/10/98 +0100, Tim Hayward wrote:

> >

> >We've just been involved in the launch of the Egg website for the

> >Prudential. If anyone has time to take a look or has come across any of

> >our banners, we'd really appreciate any feedback.

> >

> >Many thanks

> >Tim

> >----------------------------------------------

> >Tim Hayward

> >Digital Media Strategist

> >HHCL + P