Mark and I have spent a few months completely overhauling The Purple Penny Website.
See here:
PP Webshop (https://www.thepurplepenny.com/)
It looks completely different and the interface has also completely changed. We've moved it all over to Wordpress (with WooCommerce) which is what a lot of our other websites use including the Australian Coin Collecting Blog use. The shopping experience has also changed and will be much easier to use now doing a lot of manual tasks automagically.
Many thanks to Mark who figured out how to transfer all the data across which was the biggest hurdle we faced moving to a different platform. This change will also eradicate the security problems some forum members saw late last year. We now have an SSL certificate.
If anyone visits and encounters any problems or notices any errors then I'd be grateful if you'd let either myself or markn know.
Very flash :)
Yes I noticed the new format and it will take me a bit to get used to but then I don't like change. You know I always let you know if I find anything that looks a bit odd or out of place so that won't change :winkextra:
It sure does look different, good job Mark :good:
:good:
Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='106127' dateline='1488435753'Yes I noticed the new format and it will take me a bit to get used to but then I don't like change. You know I always let you know if I find anything that looks a bit odd or out of place so that won't change :winkextra:
It sure does look different, good job Mark :good:
Funny
Never thought I'd be saying this myself but yes, me as well, I really have trouble coping with change.
Been in the public service for too long? They change everything there oh about once a week. Just to keep the staff scared and constantly feeling threatened and intimidated.getting back to the topic at hand .....
Looks totally different! @
On my phone after I have opened up a heading the other headings sit below but are smaller boxes with the full word not going across the box so the header nox looks squashed butchery still activate
Also there isn't the recognisable purple penny banner
Had a look and (to me) much easier to navigate - I am Anolog with a lot of this stuff
Change? I am coping great with the new ordering system :shok: with first orders coming through.
Thanks for the feedback everyone. We haven't worked on the mobile friendly part of things, that's next on the list.
Tried to send you a message (contact us) on the site several times, came up with an error code!
Quote from: 'Robster' pid='106142' dateline='1488498629'Tried to send you a message (contact us) on the site several times, came up with an error code!
That's because your a very naughty boy Robster so your on the block list :mocking:
Quote from: 'Robster' pid='106142' dateline='1488498629'Tried to send you a message (contact us) on the site several times, came up with an error code!
What message was that Robbie?
Quote from: 'markn' pid='106157' dateline='1488516138'Quote from: 'Robster' pid='106142' dateline='1488498629'Tried to send you a message (contact us) on the site several times, came up with an error code!
What message was that Robbie?
It was the one that had Robby written at the end of it :angel: Sorry I wanna be good :)
Quote from: 'Robster' pid='106142' dateline='1488498629'Tried to send you a message (contact us) on the site several times, came up with an error code!
Thanks Robster yes it's broken. I just got some choice words from Mark. He'll try to fix it soon.
Quote from: 'purplepennyhunter' pid='106161' dateline='1488520032'Quote from: 'Robster' pid='106142' dateline='1488498629'Tried to send you a message (contact us) on the site several times, came up with an error code!
Thanks Robster yes it's broken. I just got some choice words from Mark. He'll try to fix it soon.
Is fixed now.
The beauty of change :blink: :winkextra:
Quote from: 'purplepennyhunter' pid='106141' dateline='1488493869'Thanks for the feedback everyone. We haven't worked on the mobile friendly part of things, that's next on the list.
Yes, thanks for the feedback, much appreciated. The site now renders a lot better on mobile but needs a dedicated mobile search form. I am done for now and will do it later.
I don't know if it's the site or my computer but when I click on something it's just a little slower than the old site, it takes just a second to load the new page.
Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='106165' dateline='1488523897'I don't know if it's the site or my computer but when I click on something it's just a little slower than the old site, it takes just a second to load the new page.
Gosh it should be faster. It's now in Singapore the same as the forum. It was previously in the US.
Just looking at the 66 proof set and clicked on the pic and it's the same thing, just a bit slower than the old site :winkextra:
It could be my computer and what ever it's running on, I wouldn't have a clue sorry.
One thing I do really like and that's that the pic's are bigger :good:
I LIKE it,:good:
The new site has a cleaner less cluttered look and feel to it, Nicely done Mark .
Love the new site, congrats! :wavemulticolor:
I can see the PP banner tonight. Yes I am using my mobile as well.
We'll done
I don't know how to build a website
So I'm impressed
Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='106186' dateline='1488539018'I don't know how to build a website
Easy.
<br> RG's First website<br>
This is an example of a really minimal webpage.
It works just like the Forum, only with < and > instead of [ and ].
As in the Forum, tags are balanced, with a / in the second one.
And that's pretty much all you need to know to get started. Of course HTML gets a LOT more complicated, and there are all sorts of tools and gadgets you can add, and even more bells and whistles. Which I mostly loathe. But at its simplest, its just a page of text, with tags added for formatting.And doing stuff by hand is a great way to learn. There are a LOT of so-called 'professionals' out there who have never done that. They just use the latest page builder of the month to churn out crap that looks like everybody else's crap, and runs like a bucket of dog turds. And also refuses to run at all on any browser more than five minutes old. Bloody kids! :dodgy:
And BTW, you can look at the source code for ANY web page, copy it and play around to your heart's content. You can copy the above into a text file, name it whatever you like, with a .html extension, and then open that file in a web browser. This is a good way to learn. Keep the page open, edit, save, reload and see what happened. Rinse and repeat until it looks like you want it to.
Great job! The upgraded site looks excellent. :ok:
Pedro
I had a crack at HTML in the early days and I got results But nothing special and then along came "FrontPage".:angel:
Anyway I never had the patience nor the Passion to get right into it as is was just something that I did when I was boored stupid.
I have always admired those that can write code and HTML fluently and creatively :good:
Quote from: 'trout' pid='106201' dateline='1488581498'along came "FrontPage".:angel:
Heh, the absolute worst of the crowd, but I take your point.
These site builders are easy to drive, and they produce fashionably impressive pages
(yes, it IS fashion, and dates just as quickly as overpriced clothing labels) for just about anyone.
But...
They produce horrible, convoluted, bloated code that takes forever to download and brings browsers to their knees. Which is why I hate them.
I'm a function over form kinda guy. I couldn't care less how many pretty bells and whistles you throw in, I just want it to work, and work right. Every time. On every device that *I* choose to run.
Case in point. A week or so back, Facebook made another of their BS changes. No idea what it was, because nothing looks like it changed. But, on my OSX 10.5 iMac, I can no longer use chat, I don't get notifications, and the stream doesn't update at all. This has broken FB pretty terminally for me, as I spend much of my day in front of this machine. I can still remote access one of my other machines and go in from there, but given that ALL of my machines are more than five minutes old and therefore unsupported, its only a matter of time before I'm royally screwed.
See, these people have lost the plot. If they were coding by hand, perhaps they would still lose the plot, but I kind of doubt it, as they would actually understand what they're doing and why. So lets just piss off a section of the community instead.. they should be buying new computers every six months anyway, right?
Not that there's anything unique about FB. Lots of people have done pretty much the same thing. Microsoft killed Skype on ALL my devices last year. I abandoned it and switched to FB/Messenger, mainly because few of my contacts use FaceTime. But now I need it for actual productive work, and will likely need to buy a new machine just for that. Which sucks. I see no reason why **I** should spend a bundle so **THEY** can make even more obscene profits.
QuoteNot that there's anything unique about FB. Lots of people have done pretty much the same thing. Microsoft killed Skype on ALL my devices last year. I abandoned it and switched to FB/Messenger, mainly because few of my contacts use FaceTime. But now I need it for actual productive work, and will likely need to buy a new machine just for that. Which sucks. I see no reason why **I** should spend a bundle so **THEY** can make even more obscene profits.
You could always use old fashioned "E.Mail", This can still be reliably sent via an old i386 computer :angel:
That may very explain why Skype has stopped working for me
And I love to Skype with my daughter and the grandkids
So we have had to use messenger
**** penny just dropped ***
Thank you I thought I'd done something
Microsoft also makes using Firefox a problem as well
Keeps telling me to use the edge
Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='106232' dateline='1488623660'Thank you I thought I'd done something
Glad to be of service.
Quote from: 'trout' pid='106221' dateline='1488615961'You could always use old fashioned "E.Mail"
Yup. I can also use a screwdriver as both a hammer and a chisel. :dodgy:
Every tool has a specific purpose. Just because you CAN retask one, doesn't make it a Swiss Army knife.
eMail is spectacularly ill-suited to quite a lot of tasks. Just about all of them, actually. Especially the way some people use them. Earlier tonight, immediately after I told someone about ISP mailboxes being really tiny, and how I have lists where mail bounces because peoples' mailboxes are full, AND how to fix it by linking images from Imgur, the guy sent 8Mb worth of pictures to a large list. Not once, but FIVE times in roughly 2-minute intervals. :(
And there was an Earth-shattering Ka-BOOM! :diablo: