Mark - re my own site - yes it is crowded but, if you have looked at the changes on it over the past 3-4 weeks (particularly) you would have seen some major changes aimed at aleviating that issue - and the layout still hasn't finished and probably won't for a few more weeks yet. It (the page) is now loading much faster than originally written, and plenty faster than when I re-wrote the Cumulus supplied scripts to do the same display.
I don't want to get into graphical layouts - primary reason is I'm not good at doing them
- but, like many others, I know what hits me as being 'good' and 'bad'. I made the comments/suggestions about combining a few of the gauges for a very simple reason - the information the combined gauges would give are always (or very nbearly always) quoted together anyway, so by doing some grouping, you are then allowing for a more concise and easier to understand gauge whilst allowing, if people want it, for more gauges showing different data lines/trends.As for leading to WD type pages - friendly suggestion - don't even go down that road! Beside making things horribly complicated, they start to look cluttered.
I guess where I cam coming from is that I do a lot of work helping users install and setting up web sites that display family genealogical information. You can't really get more 'data intensive' than someone who wants to somehow display his 20000+ ancestral names on a web page! The one thing I always look for is how to group common information so people don't have to start asking 'WTH do I find that' or 'Where did I see that before' The balancing act is finding, as you say, that middle ground.
Bottom line again - and I believe you, Mark, read what I wrote as I intended it, it was just suggestions after casting a critical eye over what you had presented and then asked for comments on. Noting more.
