Wallstreetoasis.com,
This site has become difficult to use when accessed through Internet Explorer (the only browser available at work), but it works fine on Firefox. Occassionally, the navigation bar on the left side somehow ends up in the middle of the page, obstructing many of the posts. Often the posts are squeezed in a narrow column, until you hit refresh, which seems to sort out the problem.
It's possible that this is an issue specific to my configuration but if other users are having the same issues perhaps you could look in to it and sort it out.
Thanks for a great and enjoyable website.
I have been having the same problem with IE. Sometimes the left sidebar appears in the middle of the page obscuring the rest of the fourm. I have also noticed that navigating through the site is very slow with IE.
I'm experiencing the same side bar occasionally appearing in the middle of the page...usually when i just log on.
at home, the website is completely unusable from my laptop, the topics a r e
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It's annoying so I don't use it at home.
Are you in IE6 at home? Please see my comments above.
IE6 is more of the problem rather than Internet Explorer. If you can download the free upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 it should work fine in that browser.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ie/getitnow.mspx
The site works best on Firefox (which you can download by clicking on the lower ad in the right column), but from what I've tested IE7 works pretty well too. IE6 has issues rendering the fluid center column / 3 column layout without squishing the columns and has trouble with the transparency (reason it is slow).
Can you upgrade to IE7? My web developer has tried everything to get IE6 to work better but to no avail given the sites fluid center layout (which I think is important to be able to use the whole monitor to read long threads in the forums).
Apologies for the inconvenience.
Stringent IT policy at work won't allow me to install any programs. Thanks for the quick response though.
tell the web developer to pull his finger out - this is the only site that suffers that problem.
We all love you v. much - but this has got to be sorted out...
I have been using IE6 with no problems on this site but I downloaded IE7 this morning and have (IE7 on my home laptop) and experience the sidebar problems.
ie=worst browser ever, as a general rule of thumb any microsoft product = over marketed and an inferior product
IE is the worst, but I've now been informed that even people with IE7 are having problems which is not acceptable. I am switching to a Fixed Width theme as soon as possible which will hopefully fix the problem of column jumping / squishing.
Really unfortunate because FireFox is able to handle the fluid center easily, but obvioulsy making the website readable is priority #1.
Thanks.
OK... after a few frustrating hours I finally figured out what was making the left column jump in on the home page for IE7. Apparently, IE does not like the new job I promoted to the home page and decided that any jobs I promote screws up the entires site layout (even though Firefox has absolutely no problem displaying it on the home page like it should).
All along IE6 has been messed up but I took comfort in the fact that at least the site worked well in IE7. Microsoft's browsers are painfully buggy and unfortunately widely used. (hint, PLEASE download Firefox which you can get just by clicking on the ad on the right column near the bottom)
When one of the members was kind enough to PM me that IE7 was screwing up I thought I was going to jump off a bridge.
Anyway, the holy grail of site layouts (3 column, 2 fixed width sides with fluid center and compatable across all browsers) is not here, but this is pretty darn close. The site should work great in Firefox, IE7, and Safari. IE6 is still a disaster and Opera I am not so sure. (note: the site is readable in IE6, but the column layouts often get screwed up, as well as the transparency...causing a need to refresh frequently)
If you are more interested in reading about the quest for the "holy grail" of layouts, read here: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail
small wonder IE sucks compared to Firefox. The former is closed source and bloated code (and IE7 aint that much better - IE7 takes ages to alter the DLLs in windows when it installs) - Firefox is built on open source.
OSs and products built on open source code like Linux have been outclassing and outflanking MS for some time now, save for the Office suite, which remains an MS revenue juggernaut (probably for a while)
There's a check browser command (Don't know the code off the top of my head, but your web developer probably would). So you can keep the nicer design for firefox users, and give a boiled down design for older/crappy browners.
I had the website freeze on me on more than one occasion, while all my other windows worked just fine. It seems that sometimes there is too much traffic for the site to handle.
Remember, you will always be a salesman, no matter how fancy your title is. - My ex girlfriend
disjoint, when the website freezes on you, what browser are you in?
also, what time of the day did this happen? sorry, just trying to diagnose the problem. I am also about to make it so if someone hits the site with IE 6 they are redirected to a dumb-downed theme which should be 100x faster and easier to navigate. It is almost ready - I am hoping my web developer can get get this code / themining in later today.
(the new version / theme of the site that is more work friendly (less colorful) and works better in IE.) stay tuned for the announcement.
If you are running the site on Internet Explorer, you should be seeing a new theme called Blue Marine that will speed up and clean up the browing of the site. please let me know if you have any problems. if you have the site cahed, you still may see the default wallstreetoasis theme, so if you want to try it out, make sure you clear your cache.
Thanks, Patrick
significant speed improvement Ive noticed on this new layout.
still working out the kinks, but if you log into your account it shoudl show blue marine
Definitely love the new website, still a few problems. Sorry if I didn't get back to you earlier wallstreetoasis.
The site still freezes on me from time to time, it just does it at random times during the day. Now the text box to post replies is a bit weird, but that might be because you are working on that right now.
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