Loading Website for first time problem...

[Endurance]

I have had multiple people people tell me the first time they loaded up my website, it showed broken pictures, and the forum just looked wacked... I tested it on multiple computers, and when I loaded the site, it did what they said... then I simply pressed REFRESH and the forum looked like it was suppose to.

The weird thing is, it never happened to them again after they hit refresh. I don't know if there is a way of fixing this, but having it look like that for the first thing you see kinda makes people turn away from the site.

Any Help?

[Shambles]

Try "disable hostname lookups" in your Admin panel options. Might help a little, though the symptoms sound like a caching issue...

[Kindred]

well, I'll bet it happens again, it you use Ctrl-f5 instead of just refresh...

it sounds like one or more of your urls/paths may be incorrect - possibly because you are using www.site.com when you have your site url set to site.com

[kat]

If those suggestions don't work, try Admin>Forum Maintenance and empty the forum's cache.