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PeterAit

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Glitch on LuLa home page.
« on: May 31, 2015, 01:48:56 pm »



I reported this a while back but it seems to have been overlooked.

On the home page there is a slide show near the top, directly under the main menu, and below that a photo associated with the featured article (currently dogwood flowers). When the page initially loads, the 2nd photo (dogwoods) is displayed at the top, where the slide show is supposed to be. Then about 1/2 second later, the slide show appears and the 2nd photo shifts down to its intended location. This happens in both Firefox and IE. Surely it's not intentional?

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Re: Glitch on LuLa home page.
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2015, 02:34:11 pm »

Same performance here, using Safari.  Doesn't really bother me though.
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Re: Glitch on LuLa home page.
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2015, 03:03:55 pm »

It's the way the site loads.  Speed of connection has a lot to do with it.  The reason is we are loading high red images for the top photos so you can see them in larger size they take just a bit longer to upload.  It's worth the very short wait to see the larger images.

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Re: Glitch on LuLa home page.
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2015, 05:57:40 pm »

It's the way the site loads.  Speed of connection has a lot to do with it.  The reason is we are loading high red images for the top photos so you can see them in larger size they take just a bit longer to upload.  It's worth the very short wait to see the larger images.

Kevin Raber

Back from my web programming days I seem to remember that there is some way around this. It had to do with writing a script to preload large images before the page rendered. Sorry, I don't remember any more details but perhaps your web wiener knows.
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Re: Glitch on LuLa home page.
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2015, 01:29:04 pm »

It's the way the site loads.  Speed of connection has a lot to do with it.  The reason is we are loading high red images for the top photos so you can see them in larger size they take just a bit longer to upload.  It's worth the very short wait to see the larger images.

I understand that, Kevin; it's not the delay in loading which bothers me, though, it's the fact that things jump about when the loading is complete. Could you not put a placeholder there, so everything below comes up in the right place? It could say "great image loading: have patience, as it will be worth the wait".

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Re: Glitch on LuLa home page.
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2015, 03:41:20 pm »


I reported this a while back but it seems to have been overlooked.

On the home page there is a slide show near the top, directly under the main menu, and below that a photo associated with the featured article (currently dogwood flowers). When the page initially loads, the 2nd photo (dogwoods) is displayed at the top, where the slide show is supposed to be. Then about 1/2 second later, the slide show appears and the 2nd photo shifts down to its intended location. This happens in both Firefox and IE. Surely it's not intentional?


Perhaps the reason it was overlooked is because it is picking at an insignificant nit.  I realize that it takes an entire half-second out of your life, but surely you can spare it.  It took you longer than that to write about it.
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Re: Glitch on LuLa home page.
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2015, 04:27:23 pm »

Perhaps the reason it was overlooked is because it is picking at an insignificant nit.  I realize that it takes an entire half-second out of your life, but surely you can spare it.  It took you longer than that to write about it.

Do you really think it has to do with the 1/2 second delay? C'mon, be serious - duh! It has to do with the site looking amateurish and with having things jump around on the screen. I do not like fixing my eye on a photo only to have it immediately vanish and be replaced with something else. If you do not understand this, so be it.
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Re: Glitch on LuLa home page.
« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2015, 02:59:19 am »

The code has been 'tweaked'. Let us know if it has improved things.

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Re: Glitch on LuLa home page.
« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2015, 07:45:03 am »

The code has been 'tweaked'. Let us know if it has improved things.

Chris

Seems the same as before - perhaps a slightly shorter delay, can't be sure.
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Re: Glitch on LuLa home page.
« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2015, 08:21:10 am »

Seems the same as before - perhaps a slightly shorter delay, can't be sure.

Time to chill out?

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Re: Glitch on LuLa home page.
« Reply #10 on: June 17, 2015, 02:31:25 pm »

I understand that, Kevin; it's not the delay in loading which bothers me, though, it's the fact that things jump about when the loading is complete. Could you not put a placeholder there, so everything below comes up in the right place? It could say "great image loading: have patience, as it will be worth the wait".

I see that this is now fixed and the jumping around has gone: thanks.

Jeremy
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Re: Glitch on LuLa home page.
« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2015, 08:42:56 am »

I see that this is now fixed and the jumping around has gone: thanks.

Jeremy

It's not actually gone, at least for me.
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