We’re going to be moving and renaming things, which could give you some issues viewing. Don’t forget to ‘refresh’ your browser. But you can take a look around.
We are gaining on the upgrade of Closed Circle.
by CJ | Feb 29, 2012 | Journal | 29 comments
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Go to http://www.closed-circle.net
I like the color on the new site. The design and layout feel structured and balanced. Although a work in progress, it seems a clean, well designed site. Congrats on all the work that has gone into this. I understand the hours of work it takes to make something like this happen. I think it will be pleasing to navigate when it is finished.
Indeed, Closed Circle looks simple, clean and easy to use. I had found it kind of hard to read the site’s offerings on the old background (although a nice backdrop): this is more attractive to the eye.
Are you using Explorer? There should have been a semi-opaque overlay that seemed to sometimes show in Explorer and sometimes not. I worked on that and really should have just given up on the background image…but that’s all moot now. Sorry for the difficulty!
Very nice! I like the redesign, including lack of splash page. (The door graphic could be used somehow else if y’all aren’t too tired of it. It was good-looking.)
Nice to see the changes beginning to take effect. Looking forward to more.
Tell Jane. She has started to blog again, and she has poured weeks of blood, sweat and tears into this design—to make what is not simple ACT in a clear and simple way. Lynn, too, has been our site-migrator-techno-wiz, who has gotten the undergrowth cleared out and all the various files and widgets situated where the design can ‘call’ them into action. Sometimes looking simpler is harder than you’d think!
I posted to Jane’s blog and I’ll give CC another look-see tonight and comment again. 🙂
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In WordPress, too, sometimes you get zombie widgets, orphaned widgets and plug-ins that no longer function, but that take up a lot of room with their ‘stuff’ when you back the site up. If a widget isn’t being supported any longer as the main WordPress upgrades and mutates, it’s easy to forget. The ‘character’ of the site largely rests in its choice of widgets, and you always have them (the little progress counter is one)—and at startup we had one widget counting visits and where they were coming from, and what browser they were using, which originally helped us see whether there was anybody actually visiting—sort of like a hit counter, such as we could find. That became a zombie, unsupported, meaningless to us and forgotten; but it was storing stuff, not just counting. That’s now outa-there. And we had some other junk—pieces of pages we’d started and abandoned. That kind of junk. It’s now running clean. And getting Word Press to function without a splash page was a poser—WordPress is set up easiest by using a splash page, but they’re a barrier, and we had always wanted to be rid of it, long and hard as Jane had labored to create the image. Splash pages just aren’t helpful to what we do.
Perhaps that explains why some days I can see all the avatars, sometimes some, other times none–but yours. Yesterday they were all here, today not. No changes on this system.
BTW, Jane now has a slideshow of the old and new bathroom—so you can see what we started with and what we did. There are more pix of the actual process, but you can at least see the result.
Are/were you online at 9:55AM Thursday? A minute ago the spot where my avatar would have been was just a collapsed box, resembling a wide vertical bar, in the grey WP “logged-in banner at the top of the page. Now it’s a shrunken version of your avatar.
And at 9:58, after posting that, it’s gobe back to the vertical bar. 🙁
Forgive me. I have an update to something that was posted earlier and can’t find it in a rush. The games on CNN. I got hooked on the mahjong dimensions, and just found http://www.majhonggames.com. It gives you a longer playing time on the 3D version. Seven minutes v the five on CNN.
MM, that link gets you to a master site—do you have one to the specific gamesite?
I find it interesting that, today, right now, my little squished icon has been replaced with CJ’s while on the comment page, but when I go to the profile page, my owl is there.
Have a great day!
And after posting the comment, my owl appeared here… Computers, gotta love ’em, ’cause sometimes they just aren’t apparently logical!
I don’t know what’s going on with the gravatars. Maybe there’ll be yet one more FB update that will fix it!
Is the new site going to replace the current site at some point? Also, and this may be a Firefox thing, when I went to thepage shown, the ‘Welcome’ banner went over into the right-hand colunn. But this was the only thing that looked odd, the rest of the site does indeed look good.
I don’t think this is a browser issue, but rather a screen/window size issue. I have that graphic at a fixed size as are the side bars. That means the center column “floats” in a table that is set to 95 or 98% of the window. If that window goes too narrow, that center squishes down past the width of the image. I need to go in and insert the html to make it a proportional size rather than an absolute…but I have to remind myself what the code is because that’s not an option that WP gives you. Not a problem and something I planned to do. I’m free to tweak now, so hopefully it’ll get fixed tomorrow. Not a hard fix, just a little futsy. (I actually forgot I hadn’t done it.)
Hmm, thanks for that heads-up. We both use Firefox and don’t see that, but we’ll try to figure it.
Thank you, thank you—yes, indeed, it is now the official site.
FWIW, I am using F-fox version 3.6.8. I also run NoScript, and checked to make sure I had allowed the new site – I have, and even with that the banner overlaps onto the right-hand column.
Sooz, if your computer is not several years old, say more than four or five, I would really suggest that you upgrade to the newest Firefox. Much better features all around. FF has gone from 8 to 10 in less than two years, so it is not as big a leap as it sounds. Best Wishes.
I’m on FF10 on Win7, and didn’t see the overshoot Sooz is seeing, even with the window narrowed. However, that does not negate that she’s seeing it. It may be her screen size or browser version. I’m about to check with an iPad2. I did find a 404 Page Not Found, which I’ll let Jane and CC know of by email. 🙂
Ah, excusez-moi, ma faute.
I see what Sooz is talking about. Yes, it is there for certain screen sizes or browsers. I think I know what’s going on, and it’s irksome, because there’s not much to do about it without Jane redoing sizes of those graphics…which are not too wide for many other screens. Drat. Good on Sooz for seeing it.
I’ll email, it’ll get to all three authors quicker. 🙂
image size problem s/b solved…I hope. Word Press did it’s usual “cleanup of extraneous code” which drives me nuts. Normally to size an image to the floating table size you’d put in something like: width=”50%” preserveAspectRatio=”xMidYMid meet” Well, WPP wants to delete the aspectratio call. It displays great on my system, but I’ll keep my fingers crossed for other machines.
In the HTML can drive you crazy department…Most of my page links were displaying perfectly, i.e. you’d punch the link on the sidebar and it would go to a spot in the page with the graphic right at the top of the screen. Two of them, however, would be dropped down a line.
I could have sworn the code was exactly the same…but there was a space between the < paragraphstyle > and < image > on the two with the dropdown. Take out the space and matches the others.
I don’t want to tell you how long it took me to find that little idiosyncrasy.
Crazy-making, I tell you….
Oh…and the Orion’s Children link problem was because we hadn’t marked the page as public. Duh. Should display fine, now….
iz thanxing yu!