Website Help/Feedback Needed

EArkham

EArkham

Necromancer
Heyas folks,

As many of you know, my website is http://www.necrotales.com

Whenever I see traffic coming in from a new source, I like to click back and see what sort of places are referring visitors to necrotales. Twice now, I\'ve seen some references to some of my pages showing up as \"blank pages\" that you have to scroll down to see content.

I suspect this has to do with clearing the sidebar floats (php speak for saying that the content is being bumped down past the sidebars), but I can\'t see where this is happening, not on Firefox 2.0.0.6 nor Internet Explorer 7. I\'ve got google analytics, but it doesn\'t show any trend that would help me pinpoint the issue.

I\'d appreciate it if folks could take a quick peak of a random page or two on my site and let me know if they\'re seeing this problem -- and if they are, what page, what browser and what resolution you\'re using.

Hopefully I can figure out the problem and correct it. :D

Thanks!

Kep
 
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lono

New member
This wouldn\'t just be a sly way to boost your website hits would it? ;)

I only had a very quick glance at the code, but surely the structure of your site\'s coding and css means that the nav header should always show regardless. Do you mean blank under that? If so, although I don\'t see any problems (only used the latest Firefox to view it mind you) it could well be the way you have your sidebar set. Have you tried flipping it so the sidebar is listed lower in the coding hierarchy? Or in fact removing it/shifting it. Or asking the people reporting the problem what browser they are using.

To tell you the truth, I don\'t like that big amount of space on the left being taken up by the elements you have chosen. I think they could be better implemented into other parts of the page and that your main content should be the first thing on the left, to allow everyone (even plebes with low monitor resolutions) to see the majority of your content.

Also, the frame style thing you have created so your top nav remains on screen, it\'s a pretty archaic way to do things and is constantly using up a lot of real estate. I\'d make it so it scrolls up with the rest of the page. Or even shift it so the nav is in the sidebar (which would then validate it being there) and make the top area filled with your banner and less high.
 
EArkham

EArkham

Necromancer
Hey, cool, thanks for the replies.

Originally posted by M. D. Van Norman
I had to scroll down on your homepage to get to the content. I’m using IE6.
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Because Microsoft won\'t let you install two versions of IE on the same computer, I have to rely on virtual machine to test in IE6 and that uses some shared files (I think). This may be why I\'m not seeing a problem when I look at necrotales in virtual IE6. Which pages did you see the problem? The main news page? What resolution?

Originally posted by lono
This wouldn\'t just be a sly way to boost your website hits would it? ;)
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Er, a news article would be FAR better if I was interested in traffic. It\'s a sincere question done here because I don\'t really want to sign up for another forum just to ask one question and risk more spam.

Incidently, the navigation bar is done solely with css, not frames, so it\'s hardly archaic. Though it was made simply for my own habits (it gives me the ability to jump to any other section of the site without having to scroll back up), I may eventually change it to a fixed position in the layout. Not particular about it either way. However this isn\'t a \"redesign my site\" thread, but a \"I can\'t see the problem at all so I need to find out how to recreate it before I can fix it\" one. I could change various things around, but I\'d never know if it fixes anything. :)

Kep
 
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lono

New member
Yeah, I know it\'s CSS as I viewed your page source code and also disabled the CSS to see how it was working to try and get a grasp of if there was something in there that was causing the problem. I only had a quick glance but nothing major stood out.

I just meant that any kind of fixed navigation in the style that you have done is very old school, and whilst it may be something that some people think is a good usability element I feel it\'s not very suited to a site like this, where the content should be the main focus. It is down to your taste though.
 
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usurpator

New member
I\'m on mac, osx safari and it all looks grrrrreat! no problem!
let me know if you want me to try other mac browsers!
 
Avelorn

Avelorn

Sven Jonsson
Yes, I tested in IE6 and had to scroll down to view the text. Everything is it in it\'s place, it\'s just the text that are further down.. the \"Welcome to Necrotales...\". I clicked at the other links and it seems like the problem is only on the main page. My resolution is 1024x768.
 
EArkham

EArkham

Necromancer
Thanks, folks!

Sorry, lono, wasn\'t trying to be defensive. Just get frustrated when it\'s a problem I can\'t see.

Okaydokey then. Hopefully it\'s only an IE6 problem. Unfortunately, I still can\'t see it happening on the main page, but I DO finally see it happening on the ork skin tutorial. Since it\'s all css-based and templated, my hope is that fixing it on the tutorial will fix it on all pages.

Hopefully my next post to this thread will be a \"try it now\" one. :)

Thanks, folks, I really appreciate it.

[EDIT] Once I realized what was going on for IE6, I was able to put in a quick fix. It isn\'t really the best fix since it means folks will have to scroll sideways on low resolutions, but at least the content doesn\'t \"vanish\" now. Please let me know if it\'s still a problem!

Eventually I\'ll do something a bit more refined, but my virtual pc image has expired so it\'ll need to wait. Thanks again for the help!

Kep
 
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