Harry Laibstain. Computer room, STAT

topstuf · November 25, 2015 1:59AM

Whoever changed your website did a really bad job,

Now the view inventory is covered by a testimonial.

Davideo · November 25, 2015 2:03AM

It may be your web browser. It looks fine in Safari and Chrome.

topstuf · November 25, 2015 2:07AM

I'm using Chrome.

Will try again.

Nope. Still doing it. Both on Chrome and IE without Chrome.

Maybe being west of the Rockies is my prob.

mgoodm3 · November 25, 2015 2:11AM

Fine on my Chrome (west of the Rockies).

topstuf · November 25, 2015 2:22AM

Sheeze.... HERE it only shows ONE row of coins and the rest ot the page is a testimonial and the site header.

Not like the old format of LOTS of coins on the page.

lordmarcovan · November 25, 2015 2:45AM

Don't feel bad. I'm unable to access my eBay messages or check out on my purchases with my desktop PC in Chrome this morning. Keep getting error messages. Then, on my third futile try, I got more error messages... in DUTCH?!?

Finally got through on my Android tablet.

I have used three different devices, two ISPs, and two different browsers (home and at work) in the past eight hours and have had different problems with all three.

steveben · November 25, 2015 3:02AM

works well for me.

LindeDad · November 25, 2015 3:02AM

Ali Baba is getting pissed at eBay on the west coast clouds maybe.

Yorkshireman · November 25, 2015 3:05AM

Works well for me too.
I actually think this is quite an improvement. The site certainly is more visually appealing.

fastfreddie · November 25, 2015 3:55AM

+1

works for me on IE10

brg5658 · November 25, 2015 4:00AM

Originally posted by: topstuf

Sheeze.... HERE it only shows ONE row of coins and the rest ot the page is a testimonial and the site header.

Not like the old format of LOTS of coins on the page.

Are you on an actual computer, or one of those damned tablet things?

Tablets don't play nice with many webpages.

Just a WAG.

CoinRaritiesOnline · November 25, 2015 4:23AM

Works fine for me.

DrPete · November 25, 2015 5:00AM

Is working OK for me.

BryceM · November 25, 2015 5:01AM

I just tried it on Explorer, Chrome, & Firefox, PC running Windows 7 (work machine).

Everything looks fine, and it's a nicely designed site - much better than what he had before.

Eagleguy · November 25, 2015 5:08AM

Works fine for me. In fact I hadn't visited in a while and now I found a coin I need

msch1man · November 25, 2015 5:40AM

You might have something in your browser cache causing issues with the site...try incognito mode (ctrl +shift +n) and see if it works

golden · November 25, 2015 5:53AM

Originally posted by: Yorkshireman
Works well for me too.
I actually think this is quite an improvement. The site certainly is more visually appealing.

blu62vette · November 25, 2015 6:29AM

Works fine on my safari.

kaz · November 25, 2015 9:14AM

No issues, using chrome on Toshiba laptop

Bullsitter · November 25, 2015 9:45AM

Working fine here.

jonathanb · November 25, 2015 10:34AM

The site has been updated use responsive web design, a new(ish) way of writing web pages so that the style and content of the page can respond to the capabilities of the device that someone is using to view it. This is most commonly used to produce pages that look good both on a large desktop monitor or on a small smartphone. On a smartphone, you typically want a single column of information that scrolls vertically. On a large monitor, you often have room for several columns and those columns might scroll horizontally as well.

When diagnosing problems with responsive design, one trick is that the display isn't usually tied to the device but rather the window size. That means that if you view the site on a large desktop monitor, you can also check what it would look like on a smartphone simply by resizing the browser window to be very narrow.

In this case, the site has been designed so that there are always 4 columns of coins in the inventory, and the images get smaller as the window gets narrower.

The testimonial at the bottom of the screen is removed for very narrow windows, but not for windows above a certain width. Some of the testimonials are quite long -- I'm looking at a 5-line testimonial right now.

Also, while the header at the top of the screen is only one line high in wide windows, and it reduces to a single drop-down menu for very narrow windows, there is an intermediate size where it actually wraps to three (!) lines, and fairly tall lines to boot. That eats up even more real estate.

The bottom line is that there are some window sizes where the header at the top of the screen wraps to three lines, and the testimonial is still present and taking up lots of space on the bottom of the screen. When that happens, the OP is correct -- you can see fewer than 2 lines worth of inventory. By eye, I think that the worst experience would be on a smallish laptop: a short viewing window, and not terribly wide.

I've seen plenty of web sites that were far worse. This isn't a bad first attempt for an inhouse designer. On the other hand, if HLRC paid an external firm that claimed to know what they were doing in terms of web design, I think they'd be in line for a significant rebate. In my opinion, of course.

(FWIW, I figured out most of these issues when I converted http://www.so-calleddollars.com to use responsive web design myself, a few months ago.)

Harry Laibstain. Computer room, STAT

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