I’m about to go live with my Freeway Pro-built site.
There are two issues I’m finding, both reasonably minor but would love your thoughts.
i) Some Mac users using Firefox are getting ‘frozen’ when opening a new window and trying to play a movie. Most users are having no problems, so it’s baffling me.
ii) At the moment, my ‘home’ page is titled ‘default’ b/c my provider wants that in the title so that it knows where to go to first. What is the usual method of naming the home page so that it has an attractive name in bookmarks etc?
On Feb 11, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Christopher Benz wrote:
Hi,
I’m about to go live with my Freeway Pro-built site.
There are two issues I’m finding, both reasonably minor but would
love your thoughts.
i) Some Mac users using Firefox are getting ‘frozen’ when opening a
new window and trying to play a movie. Most users are having no
problems, so it’s baffling me.
What is the file size of the movie? This stall may just be the plug-in
struggling to load a large file, or it may be a codec that doesn’t
perform well on the Mac. How did you encode this movie, and in what
format?
ii) At the moment, my ‘home’ page is titled ‘default’ b/c my
provider wants that in the title so that it knows where to go to
first. What is the usual method of naming the home page so that it
has an attractive name in bookmarks etc?
Freeway lets you set the title and the filename independently using
the Page inspector. Make the filename read whatever your provider
requests, and then set the Title field to My Super Happy Web Site.
Freeway will automatically set the filename based on the content of
the Title field, as long as you haven’t manually entered anything into
the filename field. Once you do, the link between title and filename
is broken, and you are free to update them independently.
Thanks Walter,
The movies are H264 QT’s hinted at streaming.
As I said, 9 out of 10 Macs and PC’s are playing them fine and almost instantly.
On the computers that have been frozen by them, they often play fine on another browser (not Firefox). although, they work fine on many other machines on Firefox too.
The issue could possibly be the ‘open new window’ function is causing a crash perhaps. The users that have problems are saying that it actually crashes firefox (ie not just a long load time).
Just tried the ‘movie’ and on my Safari the first time I just got the large “Q” for quicktime. I reloaded the page a few times and finally was able to watch the ‘very enjoyable’ movie.
Must say; your website looks great to my taste! It’s simple in a very good way. Why bother with too much fancy stuff.
I like the way you used these carousels on more pages, with same style but just different colours. Video works on my mac with latest Safari.