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  • Author Author: Matt
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October 2019 Site Update

Matt
Matt
4 Oct 2019

Last night we deployed our 7th site update of 2019.. just a couple to go before Christmas image Noooooo.

 

Highlights

 

Lazy Loading Images - Part 2

 

In our August site update, the feature that was supposed to lazy-load images had a few issues (comments, image gallery and PDFs were affected), so we turned it off within content, but kept it on for our landing pages (groups and communities). The code was re-written and we're re-enabling lazy loading of images within content. We don't foresee any problems with it this time, but if you do spot issues, let us know in the comments and we'll get right on it.

 

Action Widget Scrolling

 

That's also a feature from our August release which has been tweaked so that it doesn't get in the way & behaves a better in certain situations.

 

Webinar Recording button

 

We've always had webinar recordings on the site, but they've not been consistently linked to on the event page. You'll now see a 'View Event Recording' button for any events where we have a Webex recording, and all events that were hosted through On24. We've gone back over 300(!!) past webinars to link up the proper recording, so go and find your favourite & give it a try!

 

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Content Promotion Panels on Mobile

 

We have a feature which allows our content team to highlight content on the site you might be interested in.. we call them SmartPanels image But on mobile devices, they weren't so smart and ended up hidden away with the social sharing options. They'll now appear above the comments in content, e.g.

 

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Button Design

 

This one isn't a biggie, but one you'll notice this small change as you navigate around the site. The button style we use has been changed to remove the border.. it looks more modern IMO image

 

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Other Fixes and Improvements

 

  • Prevent SmartPanels from appearing on user profiles pages (where they'd mess things up)
  • Avnet product numbers containing a slash result in 404 when using the Buy Now buttons
  • Videos with (R) character in the title never finish encoding
  • URLs containing foreign characters fail in automated SEO indexing process
  • 2 SEO changes
  • 3 other changes
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  • Matt
    Matt over 5 years ago in reply to Matt +4
    We've got a workaround for the site issues in place until the US side of our team is in this afternoon. The site should behave normally... but might be a bit slower for the next few hours. Basically the…
  • shabaz
    shabaz over 5 years ago +4
    Hi Matt, Thanks for the update! Nice to see the mobile updates too. I was used to turning the phone 90 degrees to get the better view, but now it will be much easier on-the-go.
  • 14rhb
    14rhb over 5 years ago +3
    Great work going on behind the scenes, and much appreciated thank you.
  • luigimorelli
    luigimorelli over 5 years ago

    I don't know if it's related, but here's what happens to me.

     

    First of all, I use Firefox, not Chrome.

    I have the bad habit of using the "open in a new tab" option when visiting a forum or blog, to avoid losing myself among the threads.

    Well, for instance, I go to the "Places" page and open all the subpages at once (i.e. RoadTest, Project14, Embedded, Members and the other 12 places I usually interact with).

    I see the first section of each page loaded, while the rest of each page stays blank, for a (relatively) long time. Slowing the responsiveness of the browser, and not responding to the internal links.

     

    I *suppose* this could have to do with the "lazy load" of the pages (the top of the pages is often crowded with offers and advertisement images), and this is why I decided to report the behaviour here.

     

    Please forgive me if I went totally off-topic: I'm an old C programmer that never loved too much web (ouch!) design.

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  • Sean_Miller
    Sean_Miller over 5 years ago

    Very Bootstrapesque.  I like it.

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    Jan Cumps over 5 years ago

    Big improvement on mobile devices indeed. Thank you.

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  • cstanton
    cstanton over 5 years ago in reply to vimarsh_

    Fantastic.

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  • Matt
    Matt over 5 years ago

    Thanks for the positive feedback image I hope the site loads faster on mobile / slower connections too! Lazy loading images should really help. There are more changes coming in our November site update.. it'll add lazy-loading of iframes (usually used for embedded videos) and practically all images on the site overview pages will be set to lazy load.

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