I NEED TO USE YOU
I've been working hard on the new site for IKON (that bible study community I co-lead on Tuesday nights) and we've hit a snag. The site seems to work only on certain machines running certain versions of certain browsers when accessed by people with a certain blood type living in a certain time zone. Seriously, we're trying to figure out what the trend is, what the folks it doesn't work for have in common, so we can get it fixed. That's where you come in.If you have the time please help us out by:
1. Going to ikoncommunity,com
You should see the image above. (You can click it to enlarge.) You should see a background image of an overpass, a middle image of circles (just a test pattern) and a foreground with text and navigation buttons stacked at the upper left of the screen. All this should load within two seconds. And the movie in the bottom left should play steadily, no jerking or slow motion.
2. Come back here and post a comment about anything that went wrong, was missing, etc. And please note your operating system (mac, windows) and the version (v3.1.9 etc), the browser (Firefox, Safari, Explorer) and the version, the ram of your computer (128MB, 1Gb etc).
Thank you. This would be a tremendous help to have a large sampling of you guys do this for us. I promise I'll never use you again.
SG
posted by Shaun Groves @ 1/10/2006
28 comments
28 Comments:
Hey Shaun,
To answer your question, it loaded just fine for me in all areas (very quickly I might add) and I use IE Version 6.0 on Windows. I have a wireless net connection at 54.0 Mbps and use a laptop with a centrino processor and 512 MB of ram. Hope that helps your problem and is enough boring info about my computer.
God bless you in all that you do.
The page loads quickly, but the movie play in fits and spurts. I'm using IE6.0 on WindowsXP, with 256mg RAM. I also got a smallerwhite window with a description of IKON that's not on the page you have displayed here.
I have the same system as anonymous (IE 6.0, WindowsXP, 256mg RAM), and the same problem with the movie. I didn't get any pop-up windows, though! :-)
Hey Shaun,
I have just loaded up the site and.... everything is working fine. I opened using Firefox v 1.5 running Flash player v8 plugin and in Internet Explorer V6 running Flash player v7 plugin.
I'm on the net through a 1Mbit/s broaband line and my computer has 768Mb RAM and a 1.8Ghz Pentium IV processor running Windows XP SP2.
I hope you can find something useful outta all that techno garble.
Shaun,
I opened using Firefox (latest version). I have a laptop on a wireless connection using broadband connection and have 512 RAM and a AMD Athelon processor at 2800+. I'm running Windows XP SP2. Everything opened. I don't see any "overpass" and the movie is jumpy. I also have a white box on the right that displays info about IKON.
Beth
OK. I did it again. The IKON logo is very large and it appears that the image is too large for my screen. "IKON" takes up almost the entire screen in the background.
Beth
Looks OK and loads quickly on Windows 2000 (sp4) with Firefox 1.5 and 512 mb of RAM on a corporate LAN. However, my screen resolution is set to 1024x768, and I have trouble seeing the "Remix" button on the bottom of the screen. If there's anything below that, it's missing as well.
...btw, what's up with "Fred"? Have you been listening to Etcetera or something? :)
I was able to see everything quickly. Here are my specs:
-- Windows XP Pro SP2
-- Maxthon 1.5.2 (Runs on the IE engine)
-- 512 MB RAM
-- 1280x1024 screen resolution
I understand the pain you are going through on this. Thus the life of a web developer!! :)
Also OK over here- looks nice BTW.
Using XP Pro Sp2, Maxthon and running 1600x1200.
I posted the wrong picture. So sorry. The picture that WAS posted was of an improperly loaded site. What's up NOW, with circles, IKON text box, movie box and navigation - that's the way it SHOULD look.
So sorry for the posting error. It was late.
SG
works fine on mine... mac ibook G4, using safari, osX (tiger) 256mb,
Shaun,
I'm running XP home w sp2, 512MB, Firefox 1.0.7, on a laptop with a mobile P4. Everything loaded quickly, and depending on how the movie should look, it may or mat not be running correctly. The movie runs but flashes btwn cells which pixelates the the SIN CITY cell briefly.
Fred is what the Sunday morning bible study wanted to call itself. They're building their own page which we'll link to from the IKON site. The risk of open source ministry.
Good Morning Shaun,
Even through my very tired, stayed up too late, bloodshot red eyes . . . I can FINALLY see everything you mentioned in #1! It's all there . . . the circles, text, and nav button labels! WOO HOO! However, the movie is jerking and poorly pixeled.
Debbie, at TPC, with IE 6.0 on WindowsXP.
Everything was fine. I'm using windows XP with internet explorer. That's about all I can tell you though.
thanks, kat. ANd everyone else.
I can't bring it up on my computer here at work, but that doesn't surprise me. I can't do alot of things on this computer. It acts like it wants to come up, but all I get is a black background with a couple of "rays" that are in the top of the picture you show...like the picture is too big. At the bottom of the page, it tells me that it's opening the page, but it's not. I've tried to refresh and close out all together, then re-enter the link manually.
I don't know what most of this means, but when I click on system information this is what I get. Hope it helps:
Windows XP
Professional version 2002
Hewlett-Packard HP dc5000uT
Intel
Pentium (R) 4 CPU 3.00 GHz
I'm using Internet Explorer.
Don't know whether it's too late to help, but the site loaded fine using Firefox 1.5, Windows XP Home SP2, Flash 7, over a dialup connection. The movie looks a little jumpy, but I'm not sure if that's intentional or not.
Hey, instead of "Fred", why don't you call it "The People's Eyebrow"? you know, to go along with the church name? Hmm, church administration might not find it very funny, though...
Loaded fine on my Dell xp at work and also fine with our Mac5 at church. Windows 97 at home did not ever load, no surprise. Just pointed out that we need a new computer at home. Hear the new powerbooks are killer.
So when you click on a navigation button (Learn, Go, Give etc) does the screen transition to that page VERY quickly and smoothly? Everyone? I mean, QUICKLY, like in 1-2 seconds.
It transitions for me but takes about five seconds and it's jumpy not smooth. Anyone else have that problem??
SG
Shaun,
The movie is still kinda jumpy for me and there's no sound. Should there be?
Beth
Shaun, for your last question, it does go from one page to another very quickly (like 1-2 seconds). I was very pleased with that! :-)
Shaun-
Everything loaded quickly, looks great and the links all came up in a couple of seconds. The movie did seem kind of jerky but I couldn't tell if maybe it was supposed to be that way!?!
Using AOL 9.0, BB connection. BTW, I check your site often but have never posted. I heard about your blog on one of the Sirius channels I listen to. Thanks for all the time you put in here- great, random, thought-provoking stuff.
Shaun -
I really like the new design and everything worked great on my system.
Mac G5
1.8 GHz
256 MB
Firefox
Cable Modem
CPU:Pentium D 340 dual-core 3ghz
Memory: 2GB DDR 400 RAM
OS: Windows MCE 2005, fully patched
Video: Generic cheap ATI PCI-Express x16 board, 128MB video ram
Browser: IE 6
Flash 8 installed
Broadband connection, 6mbps
One incredibly dashing user
ikoncommunity.com looks and behaves properly according to your description. Everything seems to be there including the "remix" effect.
I get an empty white box on thei right, but everything else is fine. When I click on the links, all the white boxes are empty.
Windows XP Prof. version 2002
Pentium 4
1 Gig of RAM
IE version 6
transitions are very fast.
Windows XP Prof. version 2002
Pentium 4
1 Gig of RAM
IE version 6
Everything is fixed now and running fast.
Thanks for your help guys. Big help!
SG
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