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Zenbase, Inspire and ZenHost
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11 years 2 weeks ago
Hi... these are fabulous templates and having trouble choosing. As I was testing each of your demo sites on my Android phone I have found some issues.ZenHost. At the top there is the logo in the middle, menu icon left side, bubble with + on right. Problem is the bubble covers most of the logo and when you click the + instead it hits the logo and back to the main page again. Same problem with the menu. Just won't let the menu icon open and always the logo instead which of course take me back to the main page. (no it's not a case of fat fingers lol) Other issue, might just be the way these graphics are made instead of using photos, but the graphics for the sun, rain etc sure render awful on the phone. I will be using photos instead of those graphics but would like to know if it's just caused by the graphics or if there are problems with the way the photos are sized up/down for the phone.
Inspire. The slideshow doesn't show and simply shows all three of the photos one after another. Looks kind of tacky and they don't open properly. When a photo is clicked on it opens on a new page, photo only. If someone has opened the menu, the lightbox for the photo opens over the menu (there is no way to close the menu) with just a little white square. I have tried and tried, there is no way to close the menu once it is open which then hampers the way other items function on the page.
Zenbase is a mystery. On my Android loads as though it is not reading ANY css files at all.
Again, this is using my Android phone. These really are issues since I am upgrading to a 3.0 responsive site to make our website compatible with smart phones and tablets. No sense in upgrading if the compatibility I am looking for isn't there. We are a very small community in Alaska and this is a community website. There are probably 10 iPhones in the community. Everyone else is on Androids.
Older responsive templates such as Lifestyle and Ecostyle do not seem to have issues on my Android. Grid3 works fine but small x to close photos doesn't work. Have to hit back on my phone. Any thoughts? Oh and I am loading them on my phone outside of the Demo frame to make sure that the frame is not what is causing the problem. http://bambootheme/showcase/mar13/ for instance.
Please tell me this isn't an issue due to T3 framework. I was very nervous about this change.
- imsleepy
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11 years 1 week ago
Hello imsleepy,Thank you for pointing this out. I didn't think to test the functionality of the template before getting to work.
I can confirm that the the following for the Inspire template:
Firefox version 19.0.2: no problems.
Internet version 2.3.5: problems with slideshow
Dolphin version 9.3.5: problems with slideshow
My phone, thanks to HTC, is stuck in Android 2.3.5. So, no Chrome app for me.
Inspire - Home and Default templates are not set in development mode; regular CSS being used for all three tests.
Which browser app(s) were you using to test? Internet, Firefox, Chrome, Dolphin....etc?
Which version of Android as well?
- numeroeins
- Senior Bamboo
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11 years 1 week ago
Wow I just realized I have no idea what I am using other than it's a samsung android phone. Checked everywhere I could think of for browser app I am using and what version of Android I have. I will admit I am fairly new to websites compatible with phones and tablets. I live in the middle of nowhere Alaska and smart phones have only been introduced to our area in the last year. I looked in my phone settings and can't figure it out. Would you possibly know where to look for this info? Honestly, I never imagined there were a choice of browsers for phones. I use what came with the phone.I would like to add here that most in our town are using the same phone as I am and probably just as clueless about what app they are using for internet. Years ago I remember a time when I was faced with trying to stay compatible with IE, Netscape and AOL... along came the new kid on the block, Firefox, then Chrome, Safari etc and I threw in the towel trying to keep up with every browser. Is browser compatiblity an issue with phones as well? I know there is a difference between Android and iPhones but I don't know much more than that. I have never actually seen an iPhone.
- imsleepy
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11 years 1 week ago
Could you please post the model of Samsung you have and I will see if I can point you to the correct location?My wife has a newer phone and, of course, the latest version of Android. So, me trying to giver her instructions on how to find something with my 2.x.x. version OS doesn't work out so well.
- numeroeins
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11 years 1 week ago
Let us know what you find - I cant seem to replicate that here.Thanks
- Anthony Olsen
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11 years 1 week ago
I am using a Samsung Galaxy - Samsung I-9000 if that helps. I can't figure out how to find the browser I am using or what version of Android it is. This is the phone most in town are using since we are a small village and smart phones are pretty new here. If the website were for the world to see I wouldn't worry but it is a community website and we all have the same phones.Like I said, using your demo sites, Zenbase loads as though there is no CSS at all.
ZenHost is having a problem with the bubble covering the logo and the menu not working. Clicking on the menu or the bubble winds up clicking on the logo and just goes back to the main page again.
Inspire does not load a slide show but 3 images one after another and when the image is clicked on opens on a new page with nothing else. The menu opens but will not close which affects the way other items on the page function once the menu is opened.
- imsleepy
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11 years 1 week ago
From what I found, Samsung decided NOT to release an official update to Android 4 for your phone due to the amount of memory. This means you should be running Android 2.3 with the same version of Internet as me. Our browsers are TOO OLD for the new stuff. I checked the website with the Inspire template on my wife's phone (running Anroid 4.x w/ Internet 4.x) and the website works just fine.My suggestion would be to download and install the Firefox browser app from Google Play and set it as your default browser.
Google play REQUIRES a Google account.
support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2521798
How to install apps:
help.orange.co.uk/orangeuk/support/personal/491009/1/505993
When it says Market, look for PLAY. If play is not there, then try with market. It should redirect you.
Hope this helps. Once you learn how to do this, show the others.
- numeroeins
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10 years 11 months ago
Well after playing with both Inspire and Zenbase for over a month I have to say that I am extremely disappointed with the new T3 framework and everything that goes with it. It's SLOW, clunky, hard to use, and just not up to the standards I came to expect with your older templates. As I mentioned awhile back in this post, I was a member of Joomlart and moved here because of your superior work. I didn't like the T2 framework then and find the T3 to be just as poor as the T2 was.I am afraid I will be leaving for a different company that uses a completely different framework which I have also been playing with for over a year. The plus is it is becoming consistantly better. I have found myself no choice but to settle for what I used to consider 2nd best but now has moved up on the list.
Though your templates designs are still very unique and clean, the T3 framework just isn't worth the headaches for me.
I also want to add that Theme Magic is a VERY poor substitue for your old system. Just awful to use!
VERY DISAPPOINTED with the changes you have made.
- imsleepy
- 3 Month Basic
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10 years 11 months ago
Himost of your post is subjective feeling that is hard to answer since my feeling is different. So I would like to react on your mention of slow speed. Do you have link to your site so I can check speed of your site?
Why do I ask? Well, T3 does have varies options that helps and speeds up development time, for example dev-mode or thememagic. But of course there is a price for it in higher resource usage. This is reason I have these enabled only during development and after I am done with work on css or less I compile less to css inside template setting and with these two options off.
- Zuzuzu
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