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Ooh! Just a small point is that even on "empty" islands, you shouldn't take the coconuts cos they're "owned" by others, so there aren't any "free coconuts", not really. Likewise banana trees all belong to somebody else, drat.
 
tcm said:
Ooh! Just a small point is that even on "empty" islands, you shouldn't take the coconuts cos they're "owned" by others, so there aren't any "free coconuts", not really. Likewise banana trees all belong to somebody else, drat.
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Darn... what ever happened to a free meal?
 
Still getting the wallpaper flash on and off on the page where the ships line drawing is as previous post.
There is a big area of black between the ships line drawing and the ship moon silouet.
 

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LadyInBed said:
Still getting the wallpaper flash on and off on the page where the ships line drawing is as previous post.
There is a big area of black between the ships line drawing and the ship moon silouet.
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Thanks Lady,
I have just been looking at the site on an I pad myself and there are problems with certain elements not being responsive and throwing everything out. I will have to resolve it and change the front page.
 
I made the website for our sailingclub also responsive - and it is slow.
For my own project Iam thinking in using a dual aproach with a special template for the mobile / smartphone.
Wilhelm
 
Nostrodamus said:
I have just been looking at the site on an I pad myself and there are problems with certain elements not being responsive and throwing everything out. I will have to resolve it and change the front page.
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I looked at this yesterday on my Nexus 7 tablet (using Firefox). I thought it was a bit weird - a nice minimalist black-on-white landing page (I like minimalist) followed by a panel with half a picture (the wingy thing) and, scrolling down other 'pages' in various styles.

Today I looked at it for the first time on a laptop (Firefox again) and it's quite different. I see that the wingy thing is actually a background image, and a menu appears at the top that I hadn't seen before (and can't access on the Nexus AFAICS). I'm not sure how much of that is deliberate - maybe I was seeing a 'mobile' version* - but given the number of people here who use tablets you might investigate.

It is a bit slow. I looked at it with Firebug - the problem is mainly your server (sometimes took >5secs), but it does cache.

On the subject of the young man's comment "scrolling is the way to go" - I don't regard this a 'scrolling' site in the way I suspect he meant. There are many sites now that pull down more content as you move down the page, so everything is one long page. The late lamented Google Reader used to do it, and many non-browser apps do too.

For example this site (which uses Wordpress): http://ampp3d.mirror.co.uk/
If you scroll down you never hit the bottom. (Can be irritating if there's no way to get back to the top!)

Anyway, good luck with it.

*Looking at the code I see classes 'no-mobile' and 'not-webkit' which suggests that the system is capable of serving different content in those cases. (Firefox is 'non-webkit' whereas anything on iOS and Google browsers on Android are webkit.)
 
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Thank you so much for the information you have given above.
Going through various elements I found that some stop the page from being responsive. This is usually to do with something called parallax scrolling which allows the images and writing to move at different speeds. It also affected the header images on other pages but I have just managed to resolve this. Various images you could see on the site were not being seen on mobile devices but now they should be there.
I know I would have to change some things with CSS but with my village idiot skills I would have better luck using a voodoo doll.
I know what the problem is but when I change it all sorts of other weird things happen.
The rest of the site seems to work well on most platforms. It is just the front page that is causing problems on tablets.
I have also tried to use various things to speed up the site including CDN which seems to make a bit of difference.
I am enjoying trying to sort it all out because that is the way I am learning about various elements and the way things work.
Websites are like icebergs with 95% of the work all being done on what you cannot see.
Again thank you so much for looking and taking the time to reply but I know I need to change the front page so it will work as it should on all devices.
 
I just opened the site in IE and it froze, I had had to use ctrl, alt, del to bring up task manger and close it. When I have managed to open it overall the site is off putting. Using animation for the whole site is not a good idea, it should only be used when animation is required to show something that needs animation. This is why commercial sites and the great majority of private sites use drop down menus. The reason I say this is I set up the first UK Web design company and one thing was obvious was that drop menus are user friendly and indeed you use one. If I were you I would remove all animation use basic HTML for the site and JavaScript for the drop downs.
 
KellysEye said:
I just opened the site in IE and it froze, I had had to use ctrl, alt, del to bring up task manger and close it. When I have managed to open it overall the site is off putting. Using animation for the whole site is not a good idea, it should only be used when animation is required to show something that needs animation. This is why commercial sites and the great majority of private sites use drop down menus. The reason I say this is I set up the first UK Web design company and one thing was obvious was that drop menus are user friendly and indeed you use one. If I were you I would remove all animation use basic HTML for the site and JavaScript for the drop downs.
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Kellys Eye,
Thank you for persevering and giving me your views.
Unfortunately I went to school when we still had slide rules and have the programming skills of a goldfish with alzheimer's. My design skills are up there with my potato painting skills. Both are reasons I turned to the forum for help.
It is true that so far no one has liked the website but thanks to the feedback at least I know where I went wrong and I also know that I would have starved if I had taken it up as a job.
The website is a winter project which I have enjoyed and learnt a lot by. Hopefully others may have learnt by the comments as well.
I now know I have to make things a lot simpler, especially on the front page. There are parts that need to be clearer.
The good news is that I am not trying to sell anything through the website or make any money from it so everything I do and all the comments help me understand what I am doing and where I am going wrong.
Now I need to learn how to get it right.
Has anyone seen any blog/sailing sites that they really like the look of.. not the content but the way it looks and works.
Again thank you all for your help/ comments/ feedback
 
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Just for information, I tried it on the Nexus 7 with the default browser, Google Chrome, and it behaved exactly as in Firefox - no pull-down menus, no animation, and the background image after the title 'page'. So that's good - you haven't got two browsers on the same device acting differently. But in the absence of the drop down menu (which don't work well on tablets anyway) the navigation is difficult.

I tried the iPad. Nearly the same (start page offset to the right). I did get the pull-down menu to appear if I 'bounced' the page off the bottom of the screen. I don't think it's meant to work like that!

And I think that's the biggest problem with this front page: unless you test it with several devices and browsers you're never going to be sure what people are seeing. So a simpler, more html-based site will be easier to test. But not so much fun to build!

As for speed, that's very subjective. I didn't think it was 'too slow' but being presented with a blank page and a spinner makes it seem very slow. And probably off-putting for casual visitors I should think. The trick is to get something on the screen quickly, even if the site hasn't finished loading, and this template certainly acts against that.

Whatever you do, have fun doing it.

Dave
http://yachtvigdis.wordpress.com/
As I said, I like minimalist!
 
DaveRo said:
Just for information, I tried it on the Nexus 7 with the default browser, Google Chrome, and it behaved exactly as in Firefox - no pull-down menus, no animation, and the background image after the title 'page'. So that's good - you haven't got two browsers on the same device acting differently. But in the absence of the drop down menu (which don't work well on tablets anyway) the navigation is difficult.

I tried the iPad. Nearly the same (start page offset to the right). I did get the pull-down menu to appear if I 'bounced' the page off the bottom of the screen. I don't think it's meant to work like that!

And I think that's the biggest problem with this front page: unless you test it with several devices and browsers you're never going to be sure what people are seeing. So a simpler, more html-based site will be easier to test. But not so much fun to build!

As for speed, that's very subjective. I didn't think it was 'too slow' but being presented with a blank page and a spinner makes it seem very slow. And probably off-putting for casual visitors I should think. The trick is to get something on the screen quickly, even if the site hasn't finished loading, and this template certainly acts against that.

Whatever you do, have fun doing it.

Dave
http://yachtvigdis.wordpress.com/
As I said, I like minimalist!
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Dave,
Thank you for looking again.
Whilst I sort things out I Have added the menu to the first page permanently so there should be some navigation.
I like clean too which is one reason for trying to keep the pages short.
Thanks again
 
Just want to hep everyone for their help and advice.
I cut down the front page a lot to help with scrolling and made it so it should work on tablets. I am looking what I can do to redesign it but have also been adding photos and updating the old blogs.
Once again thank you to everyone for their help and advice.
 
Just looked again & I really like it! IMO scrolling works well now.

It's really nice to see something different.

Of course it's all about personal taste but I say - well done - bookmarked! :encouragement:
 
I think the site is superior to 99% of sailing blogs, but only when you get past the loading (7 seconds looking at a red spinner !!).

The winning attributes are (in order) the text, the graphics, the photos; what causes me to shriek is the loading and the very clunky mouse navigation. It's like turning the steering wheel of a car and finding 2 seconds later that the vehicle responds.

Content 5/5
Accessibility .....
 
Site is excellent, all appears to be working well on android tablet now, though pades are still slow to load.
I touched somthing on the screen and got:
Access denied. Your IP address [108.***.***.**8] is blacklisted. If you feel this is in error please contact your hosting providers abuse department
!!!
But ok when refreshed.
 
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