4) 'Flashy'
Well, if it involves anything like flash or other scripting languages to produce animated images, then that's completely out.
The bottom line is that the site contains more than the necessary information, it's fast to load, and it's secure.
... and a bit of information about the current web server - it's Load Average is usually around 0.00 to 0.01 - and it handles about 150-200K requests a day at the moment.
Flashy was probably an incorrect choice on my part. I think just something that looks more polished and slick than just our text and numbers. I know that we have WAY more info available to us about pool performance than any other pool. And I wouldn't want any of that to go away. Just maybe moved to the background and our front end more newbie friendly. It is what we get judged by when a perspective new miner comes to check out our pool. And we want them to feel as welcome and at home as possible. Like, yeah ok, I get this. They can find the details later. Then once they know more about mining and see what is under the hood compared to other pools, they'll be hooked. Maybe even make a different link for those of us who like the simple front end we have now.
Hmm, well maybe a "My Home" page of some sorts that's the default start when you login ...
But it's gotta avoid trying to turn the whole web site into one page coz that means the page they refresh all the time is the page that does the most work on the main server and the web server.