new website

[andrue]

Yeah, like that only a bit more faded.



Some of the letters almost look like the 'printer' is running out of ink :-/

[Niall]

Out of curiosity, who took the photos? I can't see anyone being credited, or were they bought from a stock site?

[Ardua]

Mixed reactions to new website on TBB.

[psp83]

I personally think this looks better in chrome:-

Normal font size:

full size

14px font size:

full size

Just a few tweaks, mainly -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; & -webkit-text-stroke-width: .50pt;

[Ardua]

Am I right in assuming that the design of the website is still 'work in progress'?  There seem to have been some further changes in the last hour or so. Normally, when I look at a tin of baked beans, I am only concerned about the quality of the goods within the tin - not the look of the label. That said, I use a fully colour-calibrated screen for photo work and, whilst I can appreciate the quality of the images, I just wonder whether a 2 second change of image with a cut across to a white screen might cause issues for people with epilepsy? Others have commented on the lack of any real contrast which does cause problems for IDNet's more senior customers (and I include myself in that category).

[JB]

Clicking on the PSTN transfer button results in the attached image. I'm about to transfer my phone line from BT to IDNet. If you see this Simon_IDNET could you get the link working? Ta!!

[Rik]

Drop support an email, JB, the decorators still have the dust sheets down.

[sat_mad]

All the package name links on the upgrades page are broken.

[Technical Ben]

Forget epilepsy, changing images every 2 seconds is distracting. Did they mean 20000 milliseconds, not 200?

Attached how it looks on my PC in FireFox (although I think I'm still in a single digit revision ). I also cannot scroll down, as every image swap = a reset on the screen position. 

I post this as a bug report, not a complaint. Hope it helps.

[psp83]

Forget epilepsy, changing images every 2 seconds is distracting. Did they mean 20000 milliseconds, not 200?

Attached how it looks on my PC in FireFox (although I think I'm still in a single digit revision ). I also cannot scroll down, as every image swap = a reset on the screen position. 

I post this as a bug report, not a complaint. Hope it helps.

Have you cleared your cache? if you have, its time to upgrade to the latest version of FF 

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$(function(){
$('#slider img:gt(0)').hide();
$('#slider :first-child').fadeIn(2000);
setInterval(function(){$('#slider :first-child').fadeOut(2000).next('img').fadeIn(2000).end().appendTo('#slider');}, 4000);
});

The fade animation is set to 2secs, there should be a 4sec timeout between each image.

As for slideshows, the fade times and change times are normal, most sites have these times including my own.

[Simon]

I'm not getting white flashes or fast image changes.  I see it how Paul describes it. 

[Niall]

Seems okay to me. I'd definitely get rid of that AWFUL drop down option at the bottom though. What's the point in hiding that info?

[Technical Ben]

Ahhhhh... This is it in Chrome (not broken!)

That's much better. Time to get the big stick out on Fire Fox then!

PS, seems I'm not the only one having trouble, if the comments over on ThinkBroadband are anything to go by, they also think "it looks like a car crash". But looking in Chrome, it looks normal, so the "car crash" seems to be some browsers displaying it all garbled. :/

[Niall]

That's how it looks to me in Firefox. Just that horrid bar at the bottom needlessly hiding info gets on my nerves. The page looks like a poorly converted template to be honest.

[Technical Ben]

Can't comment. I'd have trouble getting a template to work myself!

But I'd suggest making the font 1 size or 2 (or more! ) bigger IMO.

[JB]

Drop support an email, JB, the decorators still have the dust sheets down.

[Technical Ben]

Deleting my cache worked! Thanks!

[Ardua]

 
Deleting my cache worked! Thanks!
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I have just done the same and the page flashing issues seem to have been resolved. I do not recall ever having to do this before when a webpage design changes

[Technical Ben]

It only happens AFAIK if some of the old links are similar or the same, and some updated. Most website revamps are complete overhauls, so the PC redownloads everything. Where as, is a few things get updated, the PC might mistakenly use the old data for the website, and not realize it needs to download new data. Clearing the cache means it has to download everything, even if it's stubborn and thinks it' knows better.

[Rik]

You've got a machine like that too, Ben?

[psp83]

Normally a few "ctrl + f5" is enough to make the browser re download everything but sometimes you have to clear the cache fully.

[psp83]

You've got a machine like that too, Ben?

My chrome likes to keep cached images but download all the new CSS & HTML, so I normally get sites with images looking weird! It's annoying 

[Rik]

Not very polished... 

[Baz]

has the site changed today or is it me.

the drop down bit at the bottom has gone, now just needs a scroll down for me and the text seems a tad darker and easier on the eyes

[Simon]

Guess it's been tweaked.