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Seabreeze - new mobile site

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Created by laurie > 9 months ago, 6 Jun 2014
laurie
WA, 3858 posts
6 Jun 2014 4:55PM
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Howdy,

Been putting a lot of work into making Seabreeze much more friendlier on the mobile browsers/ipads etc.

Larger fonts, better layout, call's in sick for you when you're not well...

Simple change the "www." to "beta." in your browser address bar, or visit:

www.seabreeze.com.au

Hope you like... .. write if you have any dramas (and say what phone+browser you're using)

Post here, or email support ... at .. seabreeze.com.au

jonny-0
VIC, 48 posts
6 Jun 2014 11:44PM
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Have you considered going responsive?
I suggest checking out the foundation framework.
get.foundation/

I haven't taken much time to look at the grid structure the site was built on but might require some tweaking to match.
Benefit is no matter the device the website will view perfectly
Not the most cheapest direction but IMO will deliver the best user experience.

Good luck with the build.

Smithy
VIC, 859 posts
7 Jun 2014 11:08AM
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Using an iPad 4 retina and Safari browser. The text looks just that little bit bigger, back to what is was before the last update, a bit of back to the future really

default
WA, 1255 posts
7 Jun 2014 11:04AM
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Using iPhone. Having text and buttons slightly larger is good. I do however like to see in the topic list who the last poster was on a thread and when that post was made. Just makes it easier to see if it's worth going into that particular thread or not.

Lambroast
WA, 177 posts
7 Jun 2014 12:09PM
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What he said :)

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Using iPhone. Having text and buttons slightly larger is good. I do however like to see in the topic list who the last poster was on a thread and when that post was made. Just makes it easier to see if it's worth going into that particular thread or not.


laurie
WA, 3858 posts
7 Jun 2014 4:27PM
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Thanks for the feedback..

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steezy said..
Have you considered going responsive?


It is responsive. Use your mobile, and you'll get a completely different view of the site.


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Smithy said..
Using an iPad 4 retina and Safari browser. The text looks just that little bit bigger, back to what is was before the last update, a bit of back to the future really


Not much changed for the iPad, just a few minor tweaks/style - most of the effort has gone into mobiles.

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Using iPhone. Having text and buttons slightly larger is good. I do however like to see in the topic list who the last poster was on a thread and when that post was made. Just makes it easier to see if it's worth going into that particular thread or not.


Shall see what can be done..

gunny11
VIC, 51 posts
7 Jun 2014 11:17PM
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steezy said..

Have you considered going responsive?
I suggest checking out the foundation framework.
get.foundation/

I haven't taken much time to look at the grid structure the site was built on but might require some tweaking to match.
Benefit is no matter the device the website will view perfectly
Not the most cheapest direction but IMO will deliver the best user experience.

Good luck with the build.



The foundation framework is great. I've been using it and it looks sweet on different mobile devices, but it takes a decent bit of work to dev to it where you want it.

Personally I'd ditch Microsoft-IIS/7.5 move to drupal or wordpress on linux - cheaper, faster.


Loftywinds
QLD, 2060 posts
8 Jun 2014 8:24AM
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Hi Laurie.

Not sure if this is relevant, but on my phone Nokia N900 using MicroBrowser, the site looks no different to when I went into it normally before your changes. Did you put in there mobile recognition tags to switch to m.seabreeze.com.au? Otherwise I think some mobile devices will still just pick up the default HTML as if seen from a PC.
For example, the menu bar at the top only has Weather, Buy & Sell, Forums, Info, Me and Help. Maps, Gallery, etc are not shown. This could be because the sizes of the menu buttons are fixed and not % which would imply the browser tried to compensate and dropped a few for the sake of keeping some options on the one line. The font is much bigger too which is great IMO. But of course who has a phone like mine? No one! Lol. How does it look under Android I wonder?
I'll keep having a look around and see if I can test the site under Android from someone's phone at work.
Cheers

Loftywinds
QLD, 2060 posts
8 Jun 2014 8:28AM
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gunny11 said..

steezy said..

Have you considered going responsive?
I suggest checking out the foundation framework.
http://internal/tab?url=broke%3A%2F%2Ffoundation.zurb.com%2F&referrer=broke%3A%2F%2Fwww.seabreeze.com.au%2Fforums%2FKitesurfing%2FGeneral%2FSeabreeze-new-mobile-site%2F%3Fpage%3D-2%231517282&target=_blank

I haven't taken much time to look at the grid structure the site was built on but might require some tweaking to match.
Benefit is no matter the device the website will view perfectly
Not the most cheapest direction but IMO will deliver the best user experience.

Good luck with the build.



The foundation framework is great. I've been using it and it looks sweet on different mobile devices, but it takes a decent bit of work to dev to it where you want it.

Personally I'd ditch Microsoft-IIS/7.5 move to drupal or wordpress on linux - cheaper, faster.




Or Moodle, but yeah under Linux would better

laurie
WA, 3858 posts
8 Jun 2014 10:58AM
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gunny11 said..

The foundation framework is great. I've been using it and it looks sweet on different mobile devices, but it takes a decent bit of work to dev to it where you want it.



Isn't it fantastic? There is so much awesome new tech. Did plenty of research on mobile frameworks - foundation/ember/angular/jquery mobile/bootstrap/etc etc.

As you say, it's about how the tool is used, rather than the tool itself.

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gunny11 said..

Personally I'd ditch Microsoft-IIS/7.5 move to drupal or wordpress on linux - cheaper, faster.



You're saying Linux has the power of 10, but turns like a 7?

juicerider
WA, 790 posts
8 Jun 2014 1:38PM
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laurie said..


You're saying Linux has the power of 10, but turns like a 7?


New site is great and it downloads like a 4

jonny-0
VIC, 48 posts
8 Jun 2014 6:59PM
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gunny11 said..

steezy said..

Have you considered going responsive?
I suggest checking out the foundation framework.
get.foundation/

I haven't taken much time to look at the grid structure the site was built on but might require some tweaking to match.
Benefit is no matter the device the website will view perfectly
Not the most cheapest direction but IMO will deliver the best user experience.

Good luck with the build.



The foundation framework is great. I've been using it and it looks sweet on different mobile devices, but it takes a decent bit of work to dev to it where you want it.

Personally I'd ditch Microsoft-IIS/7.5 move to drupal or wordpress on linux - cheaper, faster.




Ohh ok, i was testing the media quarries while resizing the safari window, wasn't seeing any changes.
Tested it on iPhone 5 IOS 7.1, layout is looking good.
Banners are getting squished a little, i would personally stretch these to the full width whilst maintaining ratio when viewing at 320 pixel.

puppetonastring
WA, 3619 posts
9 Jun 2014 12:09AM
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laurie said..



As you say, it's about how the tool is used, rather than the tool itself.



winwil
VIC, 80 posts
9 Jun 2014 8:57AM
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.....on a blackberry bold 9000 it looks like on pc, except I can't see the weather stuff with the arrows. It's a corporate phone so I don't know if some security tuff is blocking it. Bummer because the weather is what I want to see most. Anyway looks like blackberries might be a relic of the past some time soon unless they come up with an ace real quick.

alverstone
WA, 533 posts
9 Jun 2014 11:56AM
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Mobile site? I'm so up to date with interwebbery and eye-funs, I thought this thread was about you buying a van and handing out weather update leaflets, post-kite beers and hotdogs in car parks.

Trapped
NSW, 220 posts
9 Jun 2014 11:57PM
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Is there a way to get the text smaller again. I'm trying zooming out in safari (iPhone 5) but it won't do anything. Kinda dislike the obersized text and prefer more info on my screen.
Sorry my 20 year old eyes can still see the small stuff :p

prea
QLD, 184 posts
10 Jun 2014 10:08AM
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The site looks good...
but the wind isn't any stronger

suniboy21
VIC, 1090 posts
10 Jun 2014 11:43PM
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Top job Laurie! Much more friendly!

suniboy21
VIC, 1090 posts
10 Jun 2014 11:47PM
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Maybe you could add
"Forums > Kitesurfing > General"
Short cut option that is at the top of page, to the bottom of the page so that there is less time spent scrolling up to get back to "kitesurfing" main page?
Just a thought.

laurie
WA, 3858 posts
11 Jun 2014 2:23PM
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suniboy21 said...
Maybe you could add
"Forums > Kitesurfing > General"
Short cut option that is at the top of page, to the bottom of the page so that there is less time spent scrolling up to get back to "kitesurfing" main page?
Just a thought.



If you click the "Topics" button at the bottom of the page ... same result.

bmod
NSW, 17 posts
11 Jun 2014 7:59PM
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Loving the site but have a little trouble scrolling on the weather pages -it's slow and jerky. It seems like it is trying to display text time/windspeed every time I try to scroll. It's ok if I pick a point between the graphs. Strangely, if I just tap the graphs , nothing happens - its the opposite of what would be intuitive. Just mildly irritating, not a big deal, but should be an easy fix

laurie
WA, 3858 posts
13 Jun 2014 3:58PM
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bmod said...
Loving the site but have a little trouble scrolling on the weather pages -it's slow and jerky. It seems like it is trying to display text time/windspeed every time I try to scroll. It's ok if I pick a point between the graphs. Strangely, if I just tap the graphs , nothing happens - its the opposite of what would be intuitive. Just mildly irritating, not a big deal, but should be an easy fix


Could I ask what phone you have ?

Image Upload
Also, some crew have asked about the "Unable to upload images" when posting via Mobile ... the upload needed a bit of extra work, and didn't make this release, but, it will be available next week, all going well.

Bia
1 posts
28 Jul 2014 2:02PM
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Hi everybody. I cannot see the seabreeze pages properly anymore :-(

I'm using Galaxy 3 Android 4.3.

I cant see the weather graph and the menu appears far down the page.

please help!!!

kiteboy dave
QLD, 6525 posts
28 Jul 2014 6:00PM
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I was finding last week if I opened 6 tabs in chrome on android on Samsung, half would work great with good text size and half would start to load with big text, then simply go to white screen. No way back, have to close tab.

poor relative
WA, 9105 posts
28 Jul 2014 4:11PM
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I can't upload or see photos my phone just looks blank
I'm running a Nokia 51-10



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