Apologies for our rather spare look. We’ve been having a lot of trouble with the site over the past few weeks, mostly being very slow to respond. I’ve tried everything, but I’m really rather out of my depth. In an effort to get to the bottom of the problem we’re going right back to basics and removing all the bells and whistles. If that helps, maybe we’ll add some of them back in, slowly. If there are any you particularly miss, shout.
Firebug coupled with Yslow for Firefox is pretty good too for diagnosing issues relating to HTML scripting, image loading etc. Watchmouse.com is good at diagnosing network connectivity problems. I’ve had problems with plugins before so removing them is a good start. If you upgraded recently it also may be a new bug in the WordPress version so check the release notes and/or try rolling back to a previous version. If you are on a shared virtual server it may just be the server is overworked with traffic to all the sites so consider changing if it comes to that. I can recommend Godaddy. Good luck.
Sorry to hear of your problems.
Even without bells and whistles this is still a wonderful resource.
Everything is much quicker today – don’t know what you’ve done but it’s worked.