A little sneak preview...
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Category: Your ideas for this website
Forum Name: Your thoughts for YachtsandYachting.com
Forum Discription: What do you think we should be featuring on YachtsandYachting.com
URL: http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8714
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Topic: A little sneak preview...
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Subject: A little sneak preview...
Date Posted: 15 Dec 11 at 3:53pm
...of what's coming in 2012!  |
Replies:
Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 15 Dec 11 at 3:55pm
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oooooOOOOooooo, niiiiiice :-) ------------- http://www.facebook.com/bearfootdesign - BEARFOOT DESIGN Cherub 2648 - Comfortably Numb |
Posted By: Oli
Date Posted: 15 Dec 11 at 3:58pm
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bang tidy ------------- https://skiff-media.teemill.com/" rel="nofollow - T-SHIRTS https://www.photo4me.com/profile/23908/" rel="nofollow - PRINTS |
Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 15 Dec 11 at 4:34pm
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Looks good, lets hope it perfoms as well as it looks! ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 16 Dec 11 at 9:33am
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Wow, brings it up to date. I like it.... Anything else chainging, ie Forum wise? ------------- |
Posted By: Ruscoe
Date Posted: 16 Dec 11 at 9:37am
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Good Job Mark, looks cracking. When does it go live? ------------- |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 16 Dec 11 at 10:06am
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January 1st is the scheduled start date. It's going to be a bit of a staged transition (some parts will still be the old layout and some the new). We have some issues with older browsers (mainly IE6  & sometimes IE7) so the current website will remain available at a different URL (probably old.yachtsandyachting.com).It's not just a facelift - we re-wrote the code from scratch in dotnet for the new site - the current look has built up and up over the last 15 years and it has got to the point where it's obvious we've just kept adding bits and bobs to it. One thing we've had to drop on the new site is the variable width (although we'll probably keep it on the forum). With many of the in-page interactions that happen on the new site is proved impossible to keep. We're not going to change the forum (we'll just change the menu and side bar to the new style) - it's far too hard to migrate everything! Looking forward to releasing the live version and hope it all works ok! |
Posted By: Jon711
Date Posted: 16 Dec 11 at 11:39am
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Looks really good Mark, please though, make sure it is compatible with the IPad. I get really fed up with sites that have been facelifted, that do not like the IPad...
Jon ------------- Blaze 711 |
Posted By: rogue
Date Posted: 16 Dec 11 at 12:17pm
in other words no flash and no amusing anecdotes... (leads to dropping it in the bath) Site looks great Mark! |
Posted By: Jon711
Date Posted: 16 Dec 11 at 12:22pm
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I will not give the web address, that Mark provided, but can say that I have tested it on an IPad and it works fine, if not better than some other sites. Full credit to Mark and Mags...
------------- Blaze 711 |
Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 16 Dec 11 at 1:03pm
Ditto, although I did send Mark a few little niggles, otherwise the site looks great and is a definite improvement.
------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: rogue
Date Posted: 16 Dec 11 at 7:19pm
is this it? http://www.yandy.com - http://www.yandy.com |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 16 Dec 11 at 8:16pm
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Amazing what people wear under a drysuit these days! ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 17 Dec 11 at 9:54pm
Not Safe for Work.... or your collegues will all be looking... ------------- |
Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 20 Dec 11 at 12:45pm
| Some of us are stuck with IE6 at work (though I'm testing IE8 at last) so please keep something to save our sanity in wet lunchtimes. Anyone left on IE6 now probably doesn't have the control over their system to upgrade so please don't keep nagging them on screen. |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 20 Dec 11 at 1:04pm
We've realised this is a real problem for some people. For that very reason, the full old version of the current (soon old) site will be available at a special URL (probably old.yachtsandyachting.com) for users of IE6 and IE7. The site sometimes works on IE7 and sometimes doesn't, depending on the setup. IE6 stands no chance. Old versions of other browsers seem to be fine, but our stats show that most Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera users keep their browsers up-to-date so that is far less of a theoretical problem. |
Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 20 Dec 11 at 1:06pm
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Anyone stuck on IE6 needs to gve their Co IT a good kick up the rear end!
I appreciate some company intranets have issues on other flavours of IE other than 6 but even the public sector are starting to get away from 6 now.
I seem to recall there have been no updates for IE6 for around 18 motnsh to 2 years...... ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: MattK
Date Posted: 20 Dec 11 at 4:06pm
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Should help http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16214912
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Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 20 Dec 11 at 4:08pm
Web developers throughout the world celebrated that news. The problem will still be there for corporate networks where the automatic updates are switched off and done manually throughout the system in a batch. |
Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 20 Dec 11 at 4:32pm
------------- -_ Al |
Posted By: GybeFunny
Date Posted: 21 Dec 11 at 1:30pm
| Personally I dont like having the big picture on the front screen, when I am having a sneeky browse at work I prefer more text heavy homepages so it doesnt look from a distance like completely un-work related website. Having a big picture of a boat on the home page means people from a distance know damn well what I am doing! I think I will be sticking with the old version! |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 24 Dec 11 at 7:58am
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Happy Christmas everybody! For those of you who are browsing the web between courses of turkey, here a full sneak-preview what we're launching 1st January - http://dotnet.yachtsandyachting.com/ - http://dotnet.yachtsandyachting.com/ As you'll probably tell, some sections are brand-new and some are exactly the same as the old site with a new menu at the top. The Clubs and Classifieds sections will come up with a message about the Google Maps API Key not being correct - this will correct itself once we move the site to the www.yachtsandyachting.com domain name. The new site does not work on IE6 and only sometimes works on IE7 (depending on setup). It's fine on all other browsers that I've checked it with. At switchover time we will be making the old site available at old.yachtsandyachting.com for those who are stuck with old versions of browsers and those who prefer the old version. Please post here or email me if you find any problems and keep giving me your feedback - positive and negative! I hope you all have a great Christmas! Cheers, Mark |