ATP Team
It has come to our attention that on some browsers visitors are having problems with the page loading up. In particular, the two right-hand columns get pushed down to the bottom of the page. We have also recently been hit by larger-than-usual spam and as a result it seems that many legitimate comments unintentionally get directed towards spam (for example, you post a comment and it just simply disappears).
We apologize for any inconvenience and are working on finding solutions. Please be patient. More importantly, it would be a great help to us if you could please identify any technical problems you are encountering (non-technical problems, such as finding your comments in moderation are best understood by re-reading our comment policy). For example, slow load-ups, columns pushed down, missing pictures, etc. If you are encountering any technical problem, please let us know. It would also greatly help if you could identify the browser you are using, since some problems are browser related and may not show up on the newer browsers that many in our team our using.
As a general rule, let us also add that this and many other pages tend to work best on Mozill-based browsers, such as
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It is showing just perfect on my Firefox browser.
ATP team, tell your coder to reduce the side from 950px to 900px and check if it works. By the way I would request the IE 6 and IE7 users to shift to Firefox. Most latest blogs run fine on Firefox.
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Regards,
Ghaus Iftikhar
Well I haven’t face any prob regarding page loading but some of my comments doesn’t appear on ATP.
1) less http requests
2) seperate stylesheet for IE6
3) 2 column layout instead of 3
4) change blog width so that people who have screen resolution of 800×600 could see ATP better instead of scrolling it
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6) Authers profiles which says that how to contact author besides comments
I think the front page should be kept as light as possible. Optimize and test it for the major browser versions (IE 6/7, Firefox etc). That being said, it looks great on Safari!
When I access it from work (using Explorer 6.0), the two right hand columns appear at the bottom. When I access it from home, they’re fine.
Also, I liked the option of being able to view all comments on the same page; for some reason, it was taken away after the first few weeks of the new layout.
I am using IE 6.0 and both of the two right columns are showing at the down of the page. May be, you will need to see the css style sheet file and decrease the main column widht or right column widht to resolve this issue.
The sidebar is loading below the main column because the width for the sidebar is set too wide. The CSS width for seems to be set too wide.
Taking a look at the source code - it can be cleaned up a lot, it is quite horrendous at the moment.
There is a lot of content on every page. I just find it incredibly messy, and makes the main text hard to read. There is just too much going on in the sidebar.
There should be less links and pictures of other posts on the entry pages as compared to the front pages.
The html is also invalid., that doesn’t help either. The html for the front page is also a mess.
There are 211 urls on the page, with 179 unique. No human is ever going to click so many links. On a dialup link, the page size is large enough to take a couple of minutes to load, with all the pics and what not.