Website update

[IanKennedy]

The website is currently unavailable as it's being updated. The new look is not radically different from the previous one but it almost halves the number files required to run the site. It's should slightly reduce the time to load the each page and lower the hit rate per page. Another major change is that out ancillary graphics, for example the menu buttons, title graphics at the top of each page etc. Each one of these takes time to download and uses up bandwidth. With the new site design we have an option to remove this loading completely, by simply downloading and installing a font file from our site. By doing this you you will find that the site not only looks virtually identical and works exactly the same way but is very very much faster. Anyway more of this when the site returns in about 10 mins.

[IanKennedy]

Ok, we're back and looking quite good. There's a few pages that don't quite work because of differences in the database versions, but I'm fixing those now.

[Sionnach Glic]

That was quick, I was expecting it to be down for a day or so.

[Grundig]

Downloading the font does improve speed! That's a neat trick. Looks good for the most part, but one thing I noticed was that in the episode reviews, it says (for example)

TNG EPISODE EPISODE

and the word episode is in two different fonts. Looks pretty funky to me. Seems to be the same throughout the Reviews section.

[IanKennedy]

Downloading the font does improve speed! That's a neat trick. Looks good for the most part, but one thing I noticed was that in the episode reviews, it says (for example)

TNG EPISODE EPISODE

and the word episode is in two different fonts. Looks pretty funky to me. Seems to be the same throughout the Reviews section.

Not seeing that here. Try clearing your cache and see if that makes a difference.
Thanks
Ian

[stitch626]

Just one thing I've noticed.

#
# The Motion
# The Wrath of
# The Search
# The Voyage
# The Final
# The

This is what I see for the movie review tabs.
The book review tabs have similar problems.
I do not know if this has always been that way, I can't remember checking before.

[IanKennedy]

Ah, now I see the problem. I know what that is and I've just altered it. Works a lot better now. It's only a problem when you have the font downloaded.

[stitch626]

Ah much better.

[Grundig]

Huh. I haven't downloaded the font on my PC yet, and there's a red x in the same place.


Here's what it looks like in Internet Exploder





And here's Google Chrome

[IanKennedy]

Try it now. Perhaps the enterprise.gif was corrupted, I've re-uploaded it. Try reloading the frame again. Downloading the font will make the system go very very very much faster. It's well worth doing.

[Grundig]

Still the same. I'll download the font for sure. I just thought I'd check things out before and after.

[IanKennedy]

Ah, OK, it's a capitalization thing. ptVOY.gif is not the same as ptvoy.gif. Anyway, it should now be fixed...
Thanks
Ian