The Quest for the Ring Overtime

LOAD TIME
The Quest home page is advanced design and is chock loaded with multimedia content and links to important resources. Quest uses some internet technology not found on most other sites. Therefore, this page can take a dozen or two more seconds to load than most other sites take to load. Please be patient and let it load; it will take 20-60 seconds to load completely for most.

BROWSER SELECTION
Internet Explorer (IE) is NOT always able to handle some of the advanced features on the Quest home page. This is most likely true regardless of the specific version of IE used. IE does most of the time handle most (but not all) of the other Quest sites well.

For the Quest Home Page, the Firefox browser is heavily recommended over IE, especially if you are a regular and/or if you are a serious basketball person. If you have to use IE and you see blank areas or you experience browser instability, rest assured that this is not the fault of the Quest Webmaster, especially since the Webmaster has removed any feature that generates a lot of instability in IE, and in very rare instances has removed any feature that has ever generated any instability at all in Firefox.

Explorer sometimes fails to load video players. Worse still, Explorer sometimes fails to load one or more of the approximately half dozen report readers that are on the home page. Even if there is an error message implying that the report reader itself is down, the fault most likely lies with Internet Explorer, since the report readers work virtually all of the time. When a report reader is not loaded, you will see blank areas on the page, perhaps with a "Grazr" icon above them.

When you have a problem while using IE, you can try reloading the page once or twice. This sometimes results in a better page load, but is not a cure-all. Specifically for example, if one or more of the report readers have failed to load, you can sometimes but not always get all of them to load the way they are supposed to in Explorer by refreshing the page once or twice.

If you read reports the traditional way, whether all the report readers load or not will not be relevant, and you can almost certainly read reports the traditional way reliably with any commonly used browser.

ANNUAL VERIFICATION OF FEATURES AND RESOURCES LINKED TO
During the summer and fall 2009, every one of the numerous links to important basketball resources on the Quest home page were checked to make sure they still were working and were linking to updated and very important information. Similarly, all of the on site features were checked to make sure they were working and updated properly. Non-working and non-updating links and features were removed.

This process will be repeated on an annual basis to insure the Quest visitor a reliable and professional experience.

2009: A PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION COMES TO QUEST
Just before the 2009-10 season tipped, the very large number of features and links to important resources were strategically reorganized and placed within an easy to use and clearly labelled section system. So ended the era of the rapidly developed, sprawling and slightly disorganized Quest, and so began the era of the big but under careful control and extremely well organized and professional Quest for the Ring.

A Webmaster bent on winning the Ring never rests....

Allen Iverson is a certain future NBA Hall of Fame player. He has been an eight-time NBA All-Star, a four-time NBA Scoring Leader, a two-time MVP of the NBA All-Star Game, and the MVP of the NBA in 2001.