Occasional hang when loading the main page...

[The Admin]

I've always noticed that there is an occasional hang when loading up the main page of this web site. I've always suspected that this is due to the amount of time it takes to load an RSS feed, specifically the weather alerts on the right side of the screen. Today, my suspicions were validated as I noticed that it took forever to load the page, and when the page finally loaded, there were timeout errors on the whether alerts section of the main page. So, I may have to temporarily remove this feature on the main page until I can some up with something more bullet proof.

[kcraft]

You can probably use some JavaScript/AJAX to load it behind the scenes.

[The Admin]

I may have to look into that a bit, however PHP is not my area of expertise, I'm a Microsoft person, ASP, VB, etc... It does seem to try to load the RSS feed before the screen paints. There may be other plug ins to accomplish the same thing as well. I just haven't had time to look into it, to many other things going on at the moment.