Re: Site update

Thanks for all the replies!   I'll address each.

Steg wrote:

<<Seems to work for me!
I like the comments on the left side as you scroll down the list :-)
Is |aywa| 'yes' an intentional borrowing from colloquial Arabic?>>

You bet it is!   It's actually become a part of my normal speech.   This 
seems to happen with every language I study, but I think "aywa" is the strongest.  
 I say it *all* the time, which is no problem for people I see all the time, 
and who now know what it means, but it strikes those who don't know as rather 
odd.   Some others:

-From Spanish: Well, it was my other L1, so all kinds of things slip in.
-From Russian: /po mojemu/   No expression has ever sounded more like "in my 
opinion" to me.
-Also from Arabic: /in sha' allah/   Kind of like "God willing".
-From French: "Alors".   All the time.
-From German: "Los".   It always seemed like such an out-of-character German 
word to me.   So I say it to people to get 'em moving.   ;)
-From Hawaiian: /hele mai/   Means "come here" (right?).
-From Turkish (?): Yahman.   Expression of exasperation.   I picked it up 
from my step-dad, who's full-blooded Armenian.   I think it's a borrowing from 
Turkish, though.

And I'm sure this happens to everyone on the list.   Boy, I'm going to feel 
guilty if I spawn an OT thread...

hmiller wrote:

<<No problem at all with the speed. Text is fast; it's usually the graphics
that you have to worry about as far as speed on dial-up connections. The
biggest problem is that it waits to connect to Tripod to display the ads
before showing the text, but that's no more than 3 seconds or so, and
nothing you can do anything about.>>

Ah...   I was worried 'cause on the tripod.com website building guide 
Webmonkey they said more tables slows down the page load, and I went from having four 
tables to having like 20 some.   As for the pop-ups, quite frankly I forgot 
about them, because Mac's Safari web browser blocks pop-ups, if you want it to. 
  COMPLETELY blocks them.   It's awesome.   Hopefully all the other web 
browsers will pick up on this feature.

Roger wrote:

<<Minor cavil:  on the Kamakawi page, the links in Yellow are impossible to
read against the white background.  (The green is nice, though.)>>

Alas, I know!   See, I have this whole design thing down, so that each color 
matches up with each other color on the website.   So if you have blue white 
red black on one page, and the next is orange black yellow red, then orange is 
supposed to match up with blue, white with black, yellow with red, etc.   That 
left the unfortunate situation where yellow links appeared on a white 
background.   I think I'm going to have to break the pattern and change those blasted 
links.   <sigh>

Jan wrote:

<<I[t] works perfectly fine for me (Win XP, IE 6.0). Pretty site!>>

Thanks!   ~:D   It's my hope to put everything on all my majors languages up 
there, so I can finally be a *real* conlanger, but it just takes so long!   I 
don't know how you guys do it.   You're masters, to me.   I prostrate myself 
before you.

Thanks for all the helpful comments!

-David