Recent site modifications

Has the home page changed Michael/ Lyndon? Can't find the last 5 posts that used to be on the right side.

Doesn't matter, I've found them.

Brian, the last 5 postings are still available, just select the "Comments" Tab on the RHS of the home-page. It's one of the three options:

Articles
Talk Points
Comments

Change can be difficult, but is not always unpleasant.
Let's hope that TW's new setup inspires a similar improvement on the pitch.

By that TW, I mean that I'm quickly getting to like the new setup.

Mr Editors, I wonder if there's a preference for the Comments tab on the right hand side of the home page to be the default tab, showing the last 5 comments, when entering TW or when returning to the home page?

I'm with you Brent - the recent comments on the right are my usual point of entry to TW. No interest in Twitter.

Yup, me too. Bring back comments to homepage please if possible...

Guys regarding comments, if you look to the right if the homepage you will see in a box -

Articles - Talk Points - Comments

ItÂ’s right by Ghana beat Algeria tag line,
just click on comments and voila..It would be easier if comments were default setting but I am sure the guys are on it.

Tony Draper,

Thanks Tony that was a great help, it just shows you can teach a very old dog new tricks.

Agree re new layout. Get rid of Twitter please, utter bollocks. Otherwise great.

I need to know who is saying what, and what in order! Bring back the recent comments please.

As Tony Draper illustrated @ 4 the last 5 comments are still available as described. I think the new site look great thanks!

I don't understand these changes. It was fine as it was.

Please don’t get rid of Twitter from the front page because a few people think Twitter is ’bollocks’. Do not take this to be the general thinking without first asking. I like it as a way of communicating news and info - like, for instance, the tweets from EvertonUSA yesterday that were very informative.

Is there a way of incorporating Twitter but not at the expense of the most recent comments? What about putting it where the latest headlines from GOT are posted - I for one never look at them. Many other sites I use have Twitter update feeds on a margin usually.

Oh and I wanted to add that I don’t agree with Colin – though I usually do – the way you guys continue to enhance ToffeeWeb visually and in terms of content is absolutely terrific!!!!

Tbh, it seems better.

Not much has actually changed, Colin. It's mostly cosmetic.

The biggest change might be on the interior pages where the boxes of article types that appeared sequentially down the right-hand column are now consolidated into the tabbed box.

Twitter on the homepage is inside a tab for now but I'll look into pulling it out into its own section as Paul suggests above.

Lyndon,

Very good, much more modern, better user experience.

Great, thanks!

Yes, now the comments page is back, this is much better.
If you could also provide an improvement in the main subject matter – namely Everton FC – that would be much appreciated.

Good revamp, Lyndon. After a good play with it, it responds well. The only thing I found that didn't operate was the text size buttons. They may be handy for some users.

Just need a win tomorrow now.
UP THE BLUES.

Yea, I noticed that, Ken. There's a script conflict somewhere on the page that I need to root out.

I like it, Lyndon. Looks snappy but informative. Remains the best independent Everton website. Keep going.

Great work Lyndon, looks great.

We probably take it for granted, but thanks again for you and the team for such a super site.

Frankly Lyndon, I think you have a damned cheek!

Fiddle-faddling around with typefaces, layouts, tabs and other website malarkey..............FFS man!

Get us three points against Palace!

THAT is what a proper Evertonian would be doing!
Right, now I'm off to finish my sudoku.

Looks good to me now that the Recent Comments has become prominent again.

I love the new site but would like to make a suggestion. Have you thought of an app? Good advertising revenue etc.

Also, I tend to use the mobile version of the site and get problems when I return to homepage from an article. The page looks different and some logos on top of each other. Certain tabs disappear also and things are in a different order.

Other than that, thanks for a great site. I used to use the official page and BlueKipper but now almost exclusively use this site. I enjoy reading the fanzines like WSAG and this site reminds me of them with the different fan articles and such... love it lads, keep up the good work!

The new format just doesn't work on my handphone. The words get scrambled and some boxes just don't work when I touch them. The adverts also overlay on the items on the homepage and there isn't a way to click them away.

Whatever's going on isn't working for me. I have a blank space on the right & after scrolling for an eternity there's nothing then on the left or in the centre.

Everything is perfect for me – I’m on a MacBookPro using Firefox – this site looks brilliant, top job LL and MK

I emailed Lyndon already, but see what others think. I like the new changes also, and particularly the videos section, and just wondered if it's possible to open them to comments, as some of them evoke memories ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous...

the videos are wonderful Matt - Lyndon/Michael u know this fella and what he puts on you tube - https://www.youtube.com/user/plokijuhy251/videos

Thanks for the reports of problems on the mobile version.
I'll be looking into what the issue might be.

Stay tuned...

God save us from Twitter - it's taking over the world! It will do for 'old fashioned' message boards like TW so keep it at arms' length for us old farts who just want to talk to each other.

I agree with Phil Walling, for the first time ever!

So do I - and I don’t like the feeling.....!!!

Lyndon. I too seem to have a big blank space on the right hand side and i'm on a laptop running windows 7

I have to scroll down quite a bit to find the comment section.

It worked fine on the first day of your new changes but this problem seemed to have popped up sometime on Saturday.

Hope this helps you to find the source of the gremlins!!!

Lyndon

I love the new lay out and thanks for all your hard work.
I hate to add to your workload but I can't post from my iPhone as my name is missing even though I am logged in. I get a message saying please add your name but there is no space to? Not sure if others are having this problem. Sorry to be a pain!

I've agreed with Phil once, I think. We have a mutual dislike of the pie eaters.

You might be aware already: I have iPhone 6 - in portrait can't see the banner headings. When I got to landscape it is visible. Nice changes and I like the Twitter feed even though I'm not on Twitter.

Just posted from mine obviously. Double checked something. In my view "talking points" is just below the match coverage and is also a tab along with Twitter and articles... Not sure you meant to have both options.

Like David at 39 in portratit view on my tablet and 'phone the banner only displays TofeeW not the whole name but it's no problem as it actually looks better than if correct!

Hi Lyndon, on my mobile using Dolphin browser I'm getting issues too. My guess is all tabbed content is being shown linearly, but there's issues with the top banner going off screen and having content overlaid onto it as well.

It is usable though... so that's the most important thing. I also think it will look great based on what I can see.

To give you a better idea of what I'm seeing more than happy to send screen shots, but in terms of homepage I get:
- Logo cut off at end of 'e' on ToffeeWeb and 's' of established.
- A significant gap to first full width image (not cut off and everything fits within margins from now on) (Lukaku pointing up) with title 'Resolute Everton find winning formula' underneath.
- I then get three items (middle says 'Match Preview' but others don't say news/articles etc), smaller image on left, title top followed by short overview.
- Next is ToffeeWeb poll.
- Then three news items with short descrption but without images, starting with Atsu's AFCON antics.
- Further six title only items followed by News Archive link.
- A line separates three Rumour Mill items (apologies if this is reading like an audio description transcript - just trying to help).
- Another line, then 'CLUB NEWS' and two headlines.
- Line and then Everton videos (full width with caption sized title underneath)... six then link to more.
- Line then section titled 'Opinions & Match Coverage' all with type e.g. 'Match Report', title, author then thinner line. Six of these with link to 'More editorial'.
- Thick line separating section to 'Talking Points', six items with just titles and authors as theyre all Talking Points... link to more.
- Line to Mesage Boards & Game Forums. Six items then link to 'more messages'.
- Another thick line then 'ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB'. Title, source, 'Read article', 'discuss'. Six shown then link to more.
- Thick line then advert.
- Now I get tabs 'ARTICLES | TALKING POINTS | TWITTER'. ARTICLES is highlighted and six article items... content changes appropriately when clicking through tabs in contained area. Thick line at bottom of the containing area which.
- RECENT COMMENTS has five items.
- Directly folowed by two adverts (although think second has taken over league table as there's a link to see full table below, at it's acting like an iframe - scrolling ad).
- Five Grand Old Team items.
- Finally footer.

I planned to write differences on other pages... but hopefully this wil help in some way.

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My comments seemed to be sorted already.. Good job Lyndon. Love that comments right on top as a choice tab... Always my first destination.

Hi Lyndon and Michael,

Like Tim #27 above, I've been having problems using the site from my phone in recent days. All the content appears jumbled and overlaid, whilst there are advert boxes suddenly cropping up which I can't get rid of and which obscure half the page as well. No problems from any computer thankfully.

This has never happened before until the last week or so. I do rely on using my phone to read TW quite frequently – any ideas what might be going wrong?

Most of the video links don't work on my laptop, although I am burdened with Windows 8.1, which is the McGeady of operating systems.

Hi Lyndon,

I've solved the scrambled problem on my handphone by connecting on Chrome. The TW site now works fine on my handphone.

Mark @44, you should do this too.

Anyway it seemed to be fixed but as soon as I posted it hasn't worked again.. So stop no banner headings ..

The homepage looks better already!

I like that the articles from "Elsewhere on the Web" Now have the two options: to read the article or discuss, as before the discussion pages always disappeared.

Are you still working on the new site as it is not working very well at all for me. Different problems depending what I am viewing with.

If you click on submit opinion I just get a headline and nothing else on 64bit comp and android phone. Yet it seems to work on 32bit laptop.

On chrome and firefox if you press either large or middle text size buttons the whole right hand side of page disappears. No A symbols at all on IE. This happens on 64 or 32bit

I hope this may help you a little to iron out teething problems.