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Site issues and pop-up ads
Some lingering layout problems associated with our recent site redesign have been brought to our attention, most recently from users on Safari – both Mac OS X and on iOS for iPhone and iPad.
Unfortunately, we've been unable to recreate these glitches on these platforms but if you are experiencing issues with columns not appearing or overlaying each other, let us know, either below or by email to lyndon@toffeeweb.com and we'll endeavour to find out what is going on.
Obviously, if you're having problems on other browsers or devices (Windows, Internet Explorer, etc) please do let us know as well.
Pop-ups
We have been receiving complaints about pop-up ads displaying on the site recently and we'd like to assure you that this is not deliberate. Again, this is not something we're seeing but we're trying to identify which advertising script is causing it.
If you are still seeing pop-up ads on the site as of this evening (Tuesday) can you let us know, again either in the comments section below or by email?
Pop-ups and linked text which load unwanted ad layers are annoying and user-unfriendly. As we've mentioned before, we have always tried to keep the advertising on the website as unobtrusive as possible and are regularly turning down invitations for these kinds of advertising or intrusive ads or video players which auto-play with sound.
Thanks for any assistance you can provide and also for your patience.
Lyndon Lloyd
Posted 25/06/2013
Reader Comments
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348 Posted 25/06/2013 at 23:49:39
373 Posted 26/06/2013 at 01:48:17
375 Posted 26/06/2013 at 01:56:03
Both in IE7 and IE9, but not a big issue.
397 Posted 26/06/2013 at 07:43:08
What I'm going to call, the grey navigation panel to the left, does not appear in Chrome, Firefox or IE8 when running XP. On Windows 7, it appears in all but IE.
I don't really care for it myself but I guess others might like to see it....then again, if they don't know what they're missing... :-)
408 Posted 26/06/2013 at 09:02:42
440 Posted 26/06/2013 at 11:11:30
451 Posted 26/06/2013 at 12:15:09
I'm not sure if this is to do with my broadband which is patchy at best.
471 Posted 26/06/2013 at 13:26:07
That is quite annoying. Surely it should expand on a mouse click not on a mouse over
474 Posted 26/06/2013 at 13:34:04
481 Posted 26/06/2013 at 14:20:06
492 Posted 26/06/2013 at 15:37:53
Problem is my keyboard keys are all sticky now
568 Posted 26/06/2013 at 19:42:53
756 Posted 27/06/2013 at 10:24:58
Just kidding... (from one web dev to another).
889 Posted 30/06/2013 at 01:50:44
132 Posted 01/07/2013 at 07:18:52
Could be something to do with being on holiday over here at the moment. Still to meet a Blue but met a few Red who I have taken great delight in telling them that once again we finished above them.
And was I wrong to use the phrase Roda Shita to describe them to the people selling us Ice Cream? My wife (Blue by marriage) said I was wrong to just translate it like that?
313 Posted 04/07/2013 at 13:17:54
403 Posted 04/07/2013 at 16:19:15
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346 Posted 25/06/2013 at 23:43:57
Thanks for all you and Michael do to make this wonderful resource available to Blues.
I can say that when I accessed the side via my Blackberry tablet I found I was unable to close the pop-up. The problem was the "close" icon was too close to the close browser icon - even when I took extra care with my fat fingers - and whenever I tried to close the ad I inadvertently closed the bloody browser! So I gave up trying to access via the tablet. :(