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melissa eX · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 7:36 am Post subject: Can you break it?

Hey guys!

I finally found someone who could take my website and put it on WordPress - and make it work on mobile too. And he's fantastic. I still have some things to adjust (getting rid of wordy video titles etc. which I can do myself) but I want to make sure the basics work well. Joe (web guy) just added my font to the home page (the listen page) and while it works fine on desktop and on both of my mobile phones - on his phone (galaxy S2) the demo names don't immediately come up. The "placeholder" font is still on the clients page, and that font shows no problems.

If anyone has time to mess around on phones, tablets, desktop, laptop would you let me know if you find any problems?

Thanks guys! www.melissaexelberth.com

Fran McClellan · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:14 pm Post subject:

I did a quick look through on both my laptop (on Chrome browser) and on my iPhone (also on Chrome). Looked and sounded terrific (but, of course)!!
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Jason Huggins · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 2:12 pm Post subject:

Looking good! My only issue is that it doesn't seem to be set up as responsive. When I looked full screen on my 21.5" monitor, the site was on the left half of the screen and it was just plain black on the right half. The demo player, however, loads in the middle of the screen (half over the site, half over the black).

It is probably just a setting that allows you to set the location of content in a container.

melissa eX · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:28 am Post subject:

Thanks guys,

Jason - for some reason the original site was set up to be on the left. I have no idea why. It was years ago and while the branding they were helping with was - and is - spot on , the execution left a lot to be desired. I just realized it was set up on the left. Not sure what would be involved in changing that at this point - I just got it put onto WP - and in the scheme of things it doesn't really bother me. It's only apparent on a large monitor. Maybe it could be made responsive. I'll ask. But I was more concerned with it being responsive on mobile - since that's where most people are looking anyway and it looks good on mobile.

thanks! Anyone else?

Lance Blair · M&M Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 2281 Location: Atlanta

Looks good on Chrome and Firefox on the desktop. With IE, the 'D' in 'Direct' on the Contact page is oddly at the far left margin. And yes, on all of them everything is a bit to the left.

On mobile, I think it needs some tweaking - and hopefully it can be done in a way that preserves the spot-on look you have going. The 'Bilingual ISDN Voice Talent' and 'from crime...to the divine' are too small to read unless you have a bigger phone/tablet. The font for the demos is hard to read, especially with white on black. Also, when you flip the mobile to the side, your header/logo stretches out rather than repositions to the middle.
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Jen Gosnell · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:56 pm Post subject:

On my iPad with Safari, I saw something similar to what Lance is talking about on the contact page. Here's a pic of it:

Otherwise, everything seemed to look ok and work fine to me, Mel. Smile

(BTW I was checking out your elearning demo [cuz I'm making a new one and want good examples] and by the time we got to adrenal fatigue my husband wanted to know what on earth we were listening to. I told him that you seriously outranked me, if for no other reason than the size and intrigue factor of your shoe closet!!) Wink

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Eddie Eagle · M&M Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 2393

Looks good on my GalaxyS2 I'm running Jellybean 4.2

Bish · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2014 8:56 am Post subject:

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melissa eX · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 10:35 am Post subject:

Thanks guys,

I'll have to check about fixing that weird contact page thing.
Hmm Lance, I brightened the demo font a bit - maybe a bit more.

And yes, I have a shoe room. So many shoes, not enough room. ~sigh~

Lance Blair · M&M Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 2281 Location: Atlanta

You're welcome. Smile

I think the font issue is more the narrowness of it on a small screen.

Or maybe it's because I'm getting old??? Hey, as long as younger casting directors can read it it's all good. Smile

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