Hi there, I'm using the Velvet theme for my site and I have two issues:
1. First there seems to be excessive slugishness in the backend when I'm adding a featured images and I click from the "From Computer" tab to the "Gallery" tab. I have 403 photos, but they are all no larger than 1024px. I spoke with my server and they suggested a caching plugin "W3 Total Cache", which did not help. I also went into phpMyAdmin and optimized the database, which did not help. Any insight into this issue?
2. I have a mailchimp widget installed in the footer of my website and it disappears on every other page except the homepage.
Site is: http://www.tophersimon.com
Create a new thread and tell me what problems you are encountering and what you want to know. 
There is no step 3 :) 
