A Game Changer For Landlords
9 years ago | 4 comments
Feedback on our new website design please
10:07 AM, 27th July 2017, 9 years ago
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This time last week we unveiled a fresh Property118 website design and new functionality to improve Navigation, searching and the general user experience.
One of the new features we have added is a ‘hover-over’ function which appears when your mouse cursor is placed over a members name or Avatar. The date of when the member joined Property118 and how many comments they have posted to date is then displayed. We think this will be particularly useful to established members who like to report inappropriate comments. Sadly, some people join forums and post antagonistic comments to wind people up. For some reason they get a kick out of it! Where such comments are reported a view is then taken by moderators on whether to remove the offending comment, and in extreme cases to expel the member and block their IP address so that they are unable to create a membership profile using an different name and email account.
Inevitably there were a few initial ‘bug-fixes’ to deal with when we first launched the new website and we are extremely grateful to members who took the time and effort to point these out to us. Hopefully, these have now all been resolved. We hope you will agree that the text font is now much easier to read for example, and to make bigger for those with less than 20:20 vision. Other fixes were to ensure that comment links pointed directly to the associated comment as opposed to the article and that login issues were resolved. We are still working on some image cropping issues.
There may still be things you spot which are slightly annoying or could be improved upon further, hence we would very much like you to tell us what these are.
Please leave comments below and rest assured that we take all user feedback very seriously and will do whatever we can to continue to improve your user experience.
Daily Newsletters were paused whilst we were ‘bug-fixing’ but will now resume for those who were previously receiving them and for all new members.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Neil Patterson – Managing Director of Property118 Limited
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Member Since March 2014 - Comments: 196 - Articles: 1
11:12 AM, 1st September 2017, About 9 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Mark Alexander at 31/08/2017 – 21:53
Ctrl F5 fixed the columns – it looks much better. I’d still like to see a date for the latest comment and it looks like there is room
Member Since January 2011 - Comments: 12207 - Articles: 1403
11:16 AM, 1st September 2017, About 9 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Darlington Landlord at 01/09/2017 – 11:12
Depends on how much room will be left after we have added in full article titles instead of the truncated versions.
However, note that all dates showing are likely to be in the last few days anyway because the articles last commented on always show first. On that basis I can’t see much point showing the date of the comment
Member Since March 2014 - Comments: 196 - Articles: 1
12:34 PM, 1st September 2017, About 9 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Mark Alexander at 01/09/2017 – 11:16
It just provides some context so new users can see that the topics are ordered by the most recent comment and horizontally not vertically as you might assume and also you can see at a glance which topics havn’t been updated since your last visit
Member Since January 2011 - Comments: 12207 - Articles: 1403
12:54 PM, 1st September 2017, About 9 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Darlington Landlord at 01/09/2017 – 12:34
OK, point taken, leave it with me and I will see what we can do.
Member Since February 2016 - Comments: 1056
8:10 AM, 2nd September 2017, About 9 years ago
Yes, I would prefer that too. However, this morning, reading the site on a laptop, I see two columns filling the page, rather than the acres of white space in the right side that I’d only just got used to, which is an improvement. At least if there were dates I could see at a glance whether comments were new to me or whether I had already read the latest one. For me this constant experimentation with layout is becoming rather tedious because having spent my life adapting to whatever conditions obtain in the world around me I do prefer less change rather than more. It would be a relief, to be honest, to know that this is the final episode of tinkering and your team have come to a recognition that they are never going to please all the people all the time. Don’t bother telling me I am old and set in my ways – I have a family who frequently remind me (as I used to my mother) that I’m living in the past!
Member Since January 2011 - Comments: 12207 - Articles: 1403
8:21 AM, 2nd September 2017, About 9 years ago
Thanks for the feedback, and we will look into the one change you have said you would like.
We fully appreciate we cannot please all the people all the time but we can always strive for improvements.
Constant change is here to stay LOL
Member Since February 2016 - Comments: 1056
12:41 PM, 2nd September 2017, About 9 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Mark Alexander at 02/09/2017 – 08:21
Well, life would be very boring without it, even for stick-in-the-muds like me. In case that was the impression I gave, let me make it clear I do not actually wish for a return to the stone age. Irony of your reply appreciated, LOL.
Member Since January 2011 - Comments: 12207 - Articles: 1403
3:21 PM, 4th September 2017, About 9 years ago
The truncated titles issue on the Forum page is now fixed
Member Since July 2013 - Comments: 1264 - Articles: 1
6:04 PM, 13th September 2017, About 9 years ago
The pictures are too big and the text minimal on the home pages. I am a grown-up, I want to read and be referred to the articles not look at (not very good) pictures of irrelevant parts of objects.
Also the text below the “create” banner over-writes itself and so the lower article headlines are illegible.
I am afraid it looks like an amateur blog.
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6:11 PM, 13th September 2017, About 9 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Puzzler at 13/09/2017 – 18:04
Hello Puzzler
From what you have explained I think your browser cache has got stuck.
Try pressing the ctrl and F5 keys at the same time and this should clear your cache.