AlfaBB Site Redesign - Feedback Please

[sjmst]

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Originally Posted by randyleepublic Not happy. Garish red and blue is horrid. Looks like the Official 4th of July Website. Feel like a fool for complaining, but I am a paying customer. Probably won't re-subscribe, then will shut up and take whatever is offered. "Professional Magazine"? Yes, like a trade rag that you see in a restroom at a hydraulics equipment distributor. You glance at it, maybe read a third of an article if you are "sitting down" and a compulsive reader, and then never think about it again. Worse, like some give away crap at a trade show or on an airplane. "Professionally" ugly. Sorry, I am really not trying to hurt anyone's feelings, but that is how this "new look" makes me feel. It's that bad...

[Tifosi]

Prolly not as it likely wouldn't have any effect on the implimentation or not of whatever scheme. (do a poll this time and then there'd have to be one every time, though I'm pretty sure Simon has better things to do than trying 100 different skins or editing 1 skin 100 times to satisfy everyone)

[dan farmer]

Since I don't see the sidebar ads, i really don't want the article links over there, either. I can ignore ads easily, but wasting the screen space is an issue for me. I want wider space for the messages.

-df

[Pat Braden]

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Originally Posted by dan farmer Since I don't see the sidebar ads, i really don't want the article links over there, either. I can ignore ads easily, but wasting the screen space is an issue for me. I want wider space for the messages. -df

[180OUT]

Simon, when I clicked on Cheryl's comment about Google ads my screen froze, then a Google ad. popup appeared in a separate window; when I x'ed it out, my screen froze again and I had to crash out of the site and start over. When I logged on again, out of curiosity about what happened, I tried to open Chery's post a second time. This time, Spyweeper opened a window and told me that bad software was trying to load on my system. Then I suddenly found myself redirected to what looked like an Orbitz site but possibly wasn't. I am now running a full spyware scan of my computer to find out if anything untoward happened.

You should also know that, on several occasions, Microsoft's anti phishing filter has popped up at your opening screen warning me that I'm about to access a suspicious site. I always report that your site isn't suspicious but the pop up warnings continue to appear.

This is not your fault, although It looks like some of the companies placing advertising on websites are not very scrupulous about what they push.

Oh, yeah. The new site design looks great!

[Chsmadden]

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Originally Posted by 180OUT You should also know that, on several occasions, Microsoft's anti phishing filter has popped up at your opening screen warning me that I'm about to access a suspicious site. I always report that your site isn't suspicious but the pop up warnings continue to appear.

[smestas]

Jim,

From what you are describing it sounds like your machine is infected. There is no way that any sort of virus or malicious software can be coming through any of our ad networks. Each and every ad we run is checked by the ad host before being served up.

If we were serving up malicious ads Id hear about it prety fast. Trust me. Look what happens when I change some colors on the site.

[180OUT]

Simon, I wasn't implying that there's something wrong with your site. I was just mentioning that, perhaps, some of the site your ads link too might be being questioned by Microsofts's anti-phishing software. I will add that I haven't had this kind of warning on accessing your site for a week or more.

It's always easy to blame site purveyors for problems originating on your own machine. I'm not doing that.

On the other hand, I do occasionally continue to have a full screen lock up (last night, in fact) which results in an error popup and an error report being sent to Microsoft. This usually happens when I try to bring up a post from within a forum.

The problem could well be an instability in IE or XP on my system.

I don't think my computer is infected. I have good counter measures installed and I make regular scans to keep thing up to snuff.

[smestas]

Jim,

You might want to add our site to the allowed list of sites that can set a cookie inside your browser settings. This might help you with whatever might be causing you problems.

[180OUT]

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You might want to add our site to the allowed list of sites that can set a cookie inside your browser settings. This might help you with whatever might be causing you problems.

[brownie93]

I am being kicked off of Alfabb all the time now, I have a newish computer that runs Vista, I am being closed down when I try to access a post. I clear my cookies and run McAfee. I don't have issues with other sites.
I guess I'll try to add the site like you suggested.

[smestas]

You also might want to try to logout and the relog back in while selector the "remember me option.

[brownie93]

I've just tried that, hopefully that works. I also was in the tri-colour and when I came back I was in the Alfabb Liquid. Is this blue/red screen the preferred opening window now?

[Pat Braden]

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Originally Posted by brownie93 I am being kicked off of Alfabb all the time now, I have a newish computer that runs Vista, I am being closed down when I try to access a post. I clear my cookies and run McAfee. I don't have issues with other sites. I guess I'll try to add the site like you suggested.