SPA Bookmark

Post by **joe** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:20 am

Since the changover to the new website design (which looks great by the way) I've lost the little SPA icon that used to appear on my Bookmarks Toolbar list. Does anyone know if this is something I can resolve or is it a webmaster issue? I use Firefox but it's the same for IE. Chrome seems to have retained it.

Davej · Post by **Davej** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:29 am

Hi Joe,
Can't undestand why. I use Mozilla Firefox and my little SPA icon is still there on my bookmark.
Sorry can't be of much help as I'm not reallu 'up' on computers.
Sure you'll sort it.
All the best
Dave

Ender Of Days · Post by **Ender Of Days** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:37 pm

The site looks exactly the same to me

Whats changed ?

JJ..

Post by **joe** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:49 pm

This is not the site, it's the forum for the site. You can access the main site by clicking on the SPA logo at the top of the page. But if you never visited the old site you won't see any difference.

Ender Of Days · Post by **Ender Of Days** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 2:18 pm

OK I understand,Il have a look,

JJ..

Davej · Post by **Davej** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:41 pm

Hi,
I don''t know whats happened Joe, but whe I posted earlier the bookmark icon was displayed. Now it's disappeared

All the best
Dave

Post by **joe** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 6:43 pm

Eek, Dave, I wonder what's up? Hardly Earth shattering of course but annoying.

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:11 pm

Same problem in IE7 "favorites". Also, no logos now on my tabs along the top....

Oh, and the "New" logo on the "Albums" in the top menu has gone..

Tony Markham · Post by **Tony Markham** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:13 pm

I actually have a different issue.

When I added bookmarks (in IE8) for Google and BBC last year, these also picked up the SPA icon ... so I have 3 bookmarks with the SPA icon !

Post by **Robin Scagell** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:43 am

I'll ask the new webmaster, Martin Saban-Smith, to look into the SPA logo issue. It appears for me on Firefox but not on Chrome or IE.

One person has said that the new site (not the Forum, which is unchanged) takes a very long time to load up, so any comments on that would be useful. There are more images, it's true, so longer load times are likely, but they shouldn't take forever. Now that most people are on broadband (which wasn't true 10 years ago when the old version was designed) we think it's not unreasonable to try and make the site look as good as possible, which means having some pretty pictures.

If someone spots a broken link please let us know. The new structure has meant shifting pages and it has been a very long job to make sure that everything works and I know we have missed a few.

Robin

martinss · Post by **martinss** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 10:51 am

Hi everyone,
Just ot let you know, the little icon you are missing in your bookmark bars should be appearing again now - I have put it back in the right place.

Martin

Deimos · Post by **Deimos** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 11:19 am

It's the favicon that is missing. The new site has moved to a content management system (to make it look like 101 other sites - no individuality). Such packages mean you really don't have to create a web site at all as they constrain the layout massively to how they like things (which is why they all look like a DIY "cheapo" site). anyway, a lot of these packages either forget the favicon or upload it to the wrong place.

Most browsers will cache the favicon so when the web site no longer provides it, the browser will keep it's cached version for a bit (after all it does not know it the failure to get the favicon was due to a communications problem or some other temporary issue or that the site no longer uses the icon). As a result of this caching, different browsers and different users will lose the icon at different times.

Ian

Post by **Robin Scagell** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 11:25 am

Martin has worked hard to make sure that our site doesn't look like 101 others -- I'm sorry you think it does. We designed the site to suit us, and he built a new CMS to fit the design rather than taking a CMS off the shelf and trying to squeeze the site into it.

Robin

martinss · Post by **martinss** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 11:47 am

The new site has moved to a content management system (to make it look like 101 other sites - no individuality). Such packages mean you really don't have to create a web site at all as they constrain the layout massively to how they like things (which is why they all look like a DIY "cheapo" site). anyway, a lot of these packages either forget the favicon or upload it to the wrong place.

Ian, the CMS built for the SPA is a bespoke design and allows for continuous upgrades and modifications specifically for the Society because it, and the sections will have requirements not catered for in pre-built CMS systems. Therefore, there is not a package in site.

If you read my post 40 minutes before yours about the favicon, I clearly advise that it is back in the right place. It was not uploaded in the first place, not misplaced by an off-the-shelf package.

Martin

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:20 pm

My SPA "favicon" shows an Internet Explorer "small e" logo. Should I be seeing something else?

The new site loads quickly enough for me (50Mbit cable). I have no dislikes about the new site, but would like to think that Forum topics could be given the same presence as Twitter, and we should continue to see members selected images / drawings there as well.

Regards,