If you’ve been using PHPmotion v2 you’ll notice that it’s slow. No matter what your connection speed or who’s your host, I’ve never seen a default install load in under 10-15 seconds (for me the demo site takes 22.71 seconds according to this firefox plugin) that’s on 1mb adsl!

There are many reasons to this, huge css file (37KB), bulky code, javascript, etc… The solution? Optimization! For those of you who used the xhtml/css theme I recoded from the original templates for PHPmotion v1 you’ll remember the difference in load time & also how much easier it was to edit. I’ve decided to code up a new theme for PHPmotion v2, unlike with v1 this won’t be an optimized version of the original but an optimized completely new theme!

I’m not sure when they’ll be ready or if they’ll be free or not but one things sure, fast websites are better then slow ones so don’t forget to keep checking out for updates on the new theme!

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