Comments on: Solve THEIR problems – don’t bother them with YOURS!

By: salguod

salguod — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:32:33 +0000

For those of us who like to have a toolbar at the top of their screen (even though in Windose XP it still doesn't work quite right), during the browser re-size you get the top edge of the window stuffed up under my toolbar. Grrrr. (that's goes for Microsoft and GVBC)

By: Jason Mah

Jason Mah — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:44:39 +0000

But ah, when I click on someone’s name in this comments forum, it doesn’t open a new window, it keeps me in this unresizeable window! Doh! Use a target=new!

By: Russ Weitz

Russ Weitz — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:49:45 +0000

If I open it in a tabbed browser Safari it does not hijack me!

By: Fernando Dunn II

Fernando Dunn II — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 23:05:39 +0000

When you maximize it, the content is still aligned to the right side.

Is this a project that you’re undertaking? Or is someone else fixing it?

By: boyink

boyink — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:24:12 +0000

Also, the “About Us” link is nonfunctional. This confirms what I thought…you click the “About Us” link and the content doesnt change — but the navbar does. The About Us content is “Our Pastors”, “Our Staff”, etc.

By: djchuang

djchuang — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 01:09:20 +0000

hey, at least they had a “free gift” and it made me click on it

By: Ben Thorp

Ben Thorp — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:15:20 +0000

There is one good side to this – it gave me the incentive to find the ‘Allow sites to….’ options in the latest Firefox preferences remix. It’s under ‘Web Features -> Advanced’. That’ll stop their little red wagon…………..

By: Justin Baeder

Justin Baeder — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:54:10 +0000

Also, the “About Us” link is nonfunctional.

By: Deane

Deane — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:01:18 +0000

What’s ironic about the whole thing is that they resize your browser to get it to the “right” size for their site.

However, I have a sidebar in my browser which takes up 200-pixels or so. This means that after their “correction,” I have a huge horizontal scroll. The browser was sized perfectly before they “fixed” it for me.

By: Boyink

Boyink — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:14:46 +0000

Oy…first the browser resize, then the Pastor’s voice coming in over my ‘phones and while Diana Krall was singing…it’s the Outer Limits done web style!

The menu has what I think is a usability issue as well – when you hit the “back” item, the next navbar item you click doesn’t change anything in the content area. This is inconsistent behaviour with other navbar items that do change the content “Did I click that? Nothing loaded”. Probably just saved them from building some index pages for site sections.

Looks like the flash nav is huring their search engine saturation as well – using the tool at marketleap shows that other than Google, search engines are only seeing 2 pages on the site.

Oh..and more interesting, Google shows 120 pages, but following the links to them gives me pages without the flash nav – so visitors coming in via Google may not get the “full experience”, which in this case may be a good thing.

The flash nav would be pretty easy to build in CSS, and the rest of the site is nice and lightweight/simple. This would be an easy heal.