mitzy Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 (** mod edit - the Shetland News website is now @ http://www.shetnews.co.uk **) Is anyone having problems with the new website. Everything on my screen is down one side and when I click on a news story it goes back to the top - looses other stories.Help if anyone can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norseman Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 They have moved to an 'el-cheapo' server in the USA, and the most likely cause of your display problem is that the download speed is so poor that your browser is not receiving all the page formatting information, from the USA server, so can't display stuff as it should really look. Before they moved, they were using a high-end UK server, in Leeds, which never had any such difficulties, even at the busiest times of day. Buy cheap, and use a server thousands of miles away, and that is what you get........ problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kavi Ugl Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 The new style website looks terrible Bring back the good old one!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
righter Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 yes,the new design has put me right off...even unbookmarked it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babygirl Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 yes,the new design has put me right off...even unbookmarked it!! I'm with you on that. Don't know if it's worth keeping bookmarked now, quality has dropped dramatically. Shame as until now it has been the best local online news Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Weird. Imho, it looks much nicer now. Far crisper and more professional. The old site was stuck in the 90s. Haters gonna hate, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 I'm still on the fence, but I think once I get used to the new site I'll like it better than the old one. Things maybe don't seem so easy to find, but I'm writing that off as unfamiliarity still at this stage. The old one was far too cluttered, and looked kinda gash to put it bluntly. This one is far roomier and more of a professional image. The old was screaming out for change, whether the changes that have been made are the right ones, wella, ask me this time next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earlofzetland Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Is anyone having problems with the new website. Everything on my screen is down one side and when I click on a news story it goes back to the top - looses other stories.Help if anyone can. Download internet explorer 9. Whoever designed the site didn't check the cross browser compatability. The site doesn't work in explorer 6 or 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norseman Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 The website is all done with Joomla template stuff, by the look of the Source Code. For example:- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earlofzetland Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 The website is all done with Joomla template stuff, by the look of the Source Code. For example:- http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=2134575 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 There's no good reason to use IE6 these days; it's a seriously good vector for viruses and other malware. Upgrade! Upgrade! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crofter Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 I like it. Smaller adverts, but maybe extra room on the page for a few more?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earlofzetland Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 There's no good reason to use IE6 these days; it's a seriously good vector for viruses and other malware. Upgrade! Upgrade! It's the most popular browser in China apparently http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/matt-warman/8366194/Stop-using-Microsofts-IE6-web-browser-says-Microsoft.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 ^^ A good enough reason on its own to ditch it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david Posted March 25, 2011 Report Share Posted March 25, 2011 I think I preferred the old design. The new one may look nicer, but the old one was quite simple to see what day stories had been added, what was new and what you had already read. Also the new site is too wide for most netbook resolutions. I wonder what the theory behind moving to a completely new address is. They could have moved the old address over as well. Not great for seo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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