The News Tribune Hits Refresh (14. January 2009, 09:14 by Derek Young) ~ Ch-ch-ch-changes!
We were pleasantly surprised to be greeted by a new look over at thenewstribune.com this morning. They’ve redone their site, hopefully making it more user friendly. At least once I find everything …
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inside pages are still bad… thank god for pop up blocker built into firefox.
2 | Posted by RR Anderson | Jan 14, 10:03 AM
Under Windows Mobile, it still takes a long time to load the 200KB page, and it’s agonizing to scroll down 2/3 of the way, past all the junk, to get to the actual article. Their mobile site isn’t a great alternative; it seems several hours or even days behind the main site.
3 | Posted by travisl | Jan 14, 12:09 PM
The site does not render correctly on Ubuntu 8.10 with Firefox, Opera and Konqueror.
I also am getting a lot of inconsistencies with Safari 1.3.2 on OS X 10.3.9… namely some of the ads on the right cover some text.
On XP SP2, it seems to run perfectly fine with IE 7, FF does studder a little when opening, Opera has the exact same problem it does under ‘nix.
I have a beta copy of Win 7, I’ll try that out over the weekend.
My verdict? It looks a little better than it used to, but what does it matter if I’m still hit by ads AND it doesn’t render correctly on my operating system of choice?
Grade: C
4 | Posted by Thorax O'Tool | Jan 14, 12:55 PM
Yep, Savvy, the redesign was my fault. ;)
Travis, I’m submitting a query to our mobile vendor to find out why the mobile site’s lagging behind. This is the first mention I’ve seen of the problem and you’re right, it’s lagging behind in a few sections (though news updates seems to be alive and well). My guess is unusual characters that are being copied and pasted into the story body are breaking the various feeds that make the mobile site work.
Thorax, we’re still working on some of the browser inconsistencies. Unfortunately, I don’t have access to all of the operating systems and browsers one would need to get it right for every situation.
If you’re curious, I’m running OSX 10.4.1 and primarily use Firefox 3, Safari and Camino, but have tested on Vista and XP in FF2, FF3, IE6, IE7 and Chrome. If anybody wants to donate screenshots of funky behavior to help my cause, I’d happily accept them.
Thanks for the feedback!
6 | Posted by Gentry | Jan 15, 05:33 PM
Oh, I was looking for whom to credit, not whom to blame :-) Besides, I have absolutely no clue what you computer people are talking about.
7 | Posted by D... I mean, Savvy_Reader | Jan 15, 07:00 PM
@ Gentry…
in my original post, I provided a URL to a screenshot of the issues I’m getting with FF on Ubuntu.
Same issues are there today.
8 | Posted by Thorax O'Tool | Jan 16, 08:41 AM
Thorax, thanks for the screenshot. I was mostly referring to any other problems people might be having. The problem you’re seeing seems to be with the way Ubuntu renders the css style “letter-spacing.” As a result, it’s forcing the navigation to a second line, which is forcing the content to the middle and pushing the ad rail down the page. I’ve made a change that will hopefully fix the problem, but not having access to Ubuntu to test makes it hard to tell. Feel free to shoot me an email if you want and let me know if it fixed the problem. Or let me know if it didn’t: laura.gentry@thenewstribune.com.
9 | Posted by Gentry | Jan 16, 12:03 PM
Has there been a conscious effort to rebrand the site to not seem as Tacoma-centric?
Also.
I must admit it chaps my hide a little bit to have Seattle come before Tacoma on our own newspaper’s title bar “Seattle-Tacoma News, Weather…”. It may have said that all along, but I never noticed until the layout change.
The Trib is in a sticky situation because there are many ‘news tribunes’ that’s why they had to go with ‘TheNewsTribune.com’ in their url. I hate typing all that so I use their old url TRIBNET.COM I’d like to see them go with Tacoma-NT.com
11 | Posted by RR Anderson | Jan 20, 02:37 PM
hey did you know that own tacomanewstribune.com also? it’s like they acknowledge that everyone knows that’s their name, yet they still bitterly cling to their lamewad generic name… probably for tax/legal reasons.
i’ll illustrate with an example:
“Dang those guys I wanna sue them for what they said about me being a slumlord!” …calls lawyer… “Hey, I wanna sue the news tribune”
lawyer: “yeah which one?”
… insert fog horn waaah waaah sound fx…
14 | Posted by RR Anderson | Jan 20, 05:32 PM
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