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[Ramsus]

Every so often, I'm told that I'm unable to connect to the server, is this a cache problem?

This one will have to wait a week or so, since it could just be DNS issues that are fixing themselves. If you're still having trouble next Saturday, then go ahead and post about it.

I can't notice that kind of problem, since I'm on such a bad connection that that's a normal thing for every website...

[hiddensquire]

This new design is good... very good.  That said, I still liked the old one better.

(An odd thing to say for my first post, but, I've been reading/lurking at the Compendium for a long time.)

[Ramsus]

Hmm... I think the site might be broken in IE6. I can't test that (yet), but if you have IE6, please post a screenshot here.

[justin3009]

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/3702/compendiumiepc2.png - That's what home page looks like on IE.  The site isn't doing that error as of yet, but I'll get a screenshot of it IF IT comes again.

[Ramsus]

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/3702/compendiumiepc2.png - That's what home page looks like on IE.  The site isn't doing that error as of yet, but I'll get a screenshot of it IF IT comes again.

Thanks for taking the time, but you'll never see the error. I designed the site for IE7, as well as Firefox, and I tested it in Konqueror. It's IE6 that I'm worried about, since at least 1/4th of the site's visitors still use it. After that, I'll double check it in Safari.

Right now I'm actually downloading a Virtual PC image from Microsoft with IE6 on it (it's the only way to use IE6 on a Vista machine...), so I should be able to test it soon. It's just, they throw in an entire copy of Windows XP, so it's a fairly big download.

For the time being though, I'd just like to make sure that any IE6 users out there aren't silently suffering.


EDIT: BTW, is scrolling still pretty bad for you compared to other sites?

[Vehek]

Sidebar gets stuffed at the bottom in IE6.
You can also see another problem with stuff on the left side getting cut off in the second screenshot. It happens when the window is too small. (It happens in Firefox too, maybe others.)

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[Ramsus]

Thanks. That confirms my suspicions.

Also, the cut-off problem is something I knew about; it's known a side-effect of one of the CSS techniques I use. While I'm going to fix the site in IE6 ASAP, I'm not going to look into a work-around for the cut-off problem unless it's a real problem for someone (i.e. they're really stuck at a low-resolution and can't use the site), or based on the site demographics, as revealed by our statistics.

[Glennleo]

I found something interesting. Not so much broken, just weird.

When I was messing around with the links on the main page, I clicked the bottom of the page link that sent me to the mission statement.  I clicked on the staff and the old site layout popped up.

It's not a big deal, but maybe you just forgot to change the layout for this portion of the site. I have no clue how this sort of thing work. I just figured it changed it all at once. Did you miss a part or something?

[Ramsus]

I ran across that earlier too. Like the old 404 page (missing.html), that page is hard-coded HTML, so it'd be a hassle to update. Sooner or later I'm going to make a more flexible replacement, so consider it deprecated (or a neat Easter Egg to take a look at the old layout).

Anyway, you guys are really helping me out here. Keep up the great work.

[maggiekarp]

For some reason I can't access the site at all from my computer unless it's through a proxy site. Keeps giving me a "Server not Found" message.

[edit] I read the thread and found that others have this problem and it went away, but mine's been here since this morning :/

[Darkshadw]

This new design is good... very good.  That said, I still liked the old one better.

(An odd thing to say for my first post, but, I've been reading/lurking at the Compendium for a long time.)

I sort of feel the same, as I really liked the old layout. Nonetheless I appreciate the time and effort put into something new for a change.

[ZeaLitY]

Whoo, people are going to view our about page now. I've got an impressive list of Compendium history and projects there that would otherwise go unnoticed.

That's neat concerning those staff pages. I still love my watery, azure (in the blue green sense, though I mostly use the blue purple sense of the word) color scheme, with the perfect cut-out Rock Lee and the Rufus Shinra which can be used anywhere. Now that I'm a Bleach fan, Urahara is cool.

[ctnovelist]

I noticed that the Current Events section is appearing at the bottom of the main page for me.  Does it do that for anyone else?

I like the color scheme as well, although I am typically a bit partial to green.

[Ramsus]

I noticed that the Current Events section is appearing at the bottom of the main page for me.  Does it do that for anyone else?

I like the color scheme as well, although I am typically a bit partial to green.

It's now a confirmed problem with IE6. Once I get a virtual machine set up where I can test with that browser, I'll have it fixed within a few days. If you want though, you can try updating to IE7.

[Glennleo]

I like the color scheme as well, although I am typically a bit partial to green.

Me too. green is my favorite color so that is only natural, right?

I do like baby blue too though. I loved the old top banner as well.
No offenses to whoever made the new one(it's good), but I loved the old one soo much better.