Jack Rodnessey says:

Excellent, keep up the good work. Hope to see this come to the rest of the sites soon.

Rana Sinha says:

Very attractive layout and design! Congratulations. Hope this style comes to the other sites too soon.

Cashmere Lashkari says:

Cool will go check it out!

Anne Lyken-Garner says:

Dear Me! Now I have to look for all my individual articles published on that site. Also have to link them all individually now to my blog, since I’ve always had just one page with all my science articles linked to it there.

RJ Evans says:

Yes, it does take longer to load. It looks good but there is a BUT!!! WHy have you cheapened this site by dumbing a large advert on the top of the page before the article begins? You have plenty of space for ads on the right – this will simply put people off reading the articles as it just looks like a big bit of SPAM.

In other words, not impressed.

Anne Lyken-Garner says:

I’ve noticed with horror that Beyond Jane has had a new makeover. I’ve got numerous articles on that site (as I do on Scienceray) but now when I type my name into the search panel there, I can only find one of my articles. That’s right – only one.

I preferred it when it was possible to find all your articles published on one site on one page. It made it easier for the author (in the author’s interest – in other words). People looking for their articles in relationships for example, could find all the previous related pieces easily.

Another thing is that only new work show up as popular articles. So if you’ve written an article that did (and continues to do) well last month, it would no longer show up on the front page. This gives readers a very limited/biased view of what’s available on the sites and what kinds of things do well.

Can’t say I’m happy. Sorry.

thestickman says:

There are continuing problems with the Online Editor “spell checker” and automatic rejection of articles ‘for spelling mistakes’ that are NOT mistakes. This is frustrating. Not so difficult to understand when the use of a foreign or technical word is flagged as being in error, or a slang word. But common words in everyday English get ‘flagged’ as well and I have had to “Add to Dictionary.”

I have had one dubious flagging of the word “proven” as being spelled wrong! The word was not surrounded by single or double-quote either (which also trips-up the spell checker.)
I even took a screen snap of the error and wrote an article around it, as proof.

And for some reason (and this may be my fault,) any word that ends or begins with “th” (like “therapy”) the “th” is flagged as misspelled, and the “erapy” is flagged also as being misspelled. I cannot in good conscious ‘add to dictionary’ the word “th” nor “erapy” just get get around this.

I have not be publishing here at Triond much lately because it is so upsetting to have to fight with this spellchecker all the time. Spellchecker is a good feature but it should NEVER prevent an article from being published. At worst, the offending article should be ‘flagged’ to be read by HUMAN eyes at the editorial level.

(Stepping off my soapbox now *smile*)

Don’t assume that Triond’s Online Editor spellchecker is the only one that some writers here use… I for one use MSWORD spellchecker while writing, Firefox spellchecker when proofing, -then I get all manner of ‘misspelled word’ errors on the Triond Online Editor… What is up with that?

Please investigate these anomalies.

Other than that, I’m still happy.

-thestickman

Anne Lyken-Garner says:

I haven’t been able to comment properly in the last two days. Is this just me?

Mike Crowl says:

I’ve just published a piece on musicouch, and having had to use the now obligatory submission process through the online editor, am disturbed to find that all the hard work of italicising words has gone in the published version.
It used to be a lot easier to type up your article in Word (or its equivalent) with all the links already in place, and then publish this as a file. The new approach, via the online editor, is a lot slower – especially in terms of putting in links – and it’s very hard to set the pictures in the right place. The last piece I did, which had two pictures in it, looks quite odd.

thestickman says:

Why have there been so many problems with Triond sites lately? On some sites I (and quite a few others) cannot post comments on. Some site like “Comptersight” looks like crap because the text overlaps and disappears behind the images. A recent ‘update’ to the CSS is probably responsible, but it has looked terrible for about two weeks now… is anyone going to fix this or even acknowledge that there is a problem there?
And here, -I cannot post to THIS forum using any “@hotmail.com” for the (required) e-mail address? Using any other e-mail address seems to work and allow the comment to be posted. -Is there some ’spam filter’ that is flagging any “@hotmail.com” address?

I have sent a message or two to the helpdesk address, but never get anything back from it or any indication that it has even been received much less, acknowledged.

I am becoming worried about this place. :-\

-thestickman