A little list of suggestions. :)

Hi there,
Great site, I love it -- Far superior to DA. Just a few things that could make it that much better, in my mind, are the following:

• I use linux, and have a good computer, but even my computer hangs (For milliseconds) on some of your pages because of the amount of scripting.
• Literature... Support for PDF's and what not... Please, decent support for it... Unlike DA. Don't make up drop our formatting and everything. Please support Open Office as well! (I know your working on it! I can't wait)
• A "Submit new blog Post" button easily accessible on the top bar.
• The ability when browsing to rank them on popularity... latest, random, and things. (Might already be there and I didn't see it)

Thanks alot! I love it here!
Andrew

If you hover over the artician icon in the top left, and click on "Blog Manager" under the "My Content" column, and you will be right on the page where you post a new blog. The ability to rank submissions in those categories is already there. Go to a browse section for whatever art you want to look at, and click on "Filters", by the "Tile View" and "Small Thumbnails" buttons. You can pick the criteria under 'sort by'. This doesn't seem to work on the default http://www.artician.com/browse/, though, which might be why you missed it.

I agree on rich text formatting support, but I don't agree on PDF's. They are the spawn of the devil or something lol, I don't enjoy PDF's at all. They freeze up comps, are awkward, and the like. But formatting support = want!! I'm a writer myself.

It's possible you're getting lag because of trouble with ads taking forever to load, unless you're using an adblocker. I don't have that great of a computer, run windows, and use an adblocker and my pages load fine. Are you sure it's not the speed of your internet..? Mine's averaging at about 1 Mbps.

Other than that, I'm glad you enjoy the site. Linux FTW.

Visual guide ftw, it made it much funner to follow along.