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Post by mls on Feb 19, 2020 20:53:13 GMT -5
Something seems not right with the main and store pages. Often a get the store page and can't get back to the main page, losing access to each story!
Anyone else seeing this?
Wanted to reread Rocinante and could not get back to it sometimes!
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Post by Not Wes on Feb 19, 2020 22:34:14 GMT -5
mis,
I'm not able to re-create your problem. Which page do you get to that you can't get back to the main page from, and which (if there's more than one) link are you clicking to return to the main page?
I can't find a page that I can't return to the main from, but I haven't tried them all. I tried the Sword pages and the CCT pages, and have no problem getting back to the main page from them or the one with the long list of books, even just clicking the back button. I don't want to go through all 57 of the other books to locate it.
Let me know if you can figure out which page is giving you problems and I'll get it fixed.
Thanks,
Not Wes
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Post by Not Wes on Feb 20, 2020 10:33:57 GMT -5
Anyone else have any problems anywhere? Can anyone make the site goof as mis describes? There or elsewhere? I'll fix 'em if I can find 'em after they're pointed out to me.
Thanks,
Not Wes
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Post by Paul on Feb 21, 2020 9:32:11 GMT -5
Going back several years I recall seeing links to the "main" page take me to the store page instead, right after a new book started. The solution was always to persuade my browser to refresh more of the site than it thought should be necessary for an ordinary "refresh page" command. The browser on Amazon Fire tables still won't refresh pages on command, so that if I jump the gun on loading or reloading to get the next chapter, I have to either wait a day or so or find a non-brain-dead browser to read it with.
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Post by Not Wes on Feb 21, 2020 12:21:54 GMT -5
Paul,
I just bought an Amazon Fire 10 to travel with, as my little Asus Netbook works but no longer will allow me to turn off the Wifi (go into "airplane" mode). I have not used it yet, as I really only plan on using it when traveling. It comes with something called a "SilK" browser, which I have used, and that I know of without problems, likely only because I haven't used it enough to notice any yet. I think Silk is an Amazon creation, but don't know for sure. I understand there is a better browser for it called "Aurora" and also that the I think Norwegian publisher of "Opera," the browser I use on my desktop at home (using it to write this), also produces an Android-ready version for "mobile machines" like the Fire tablet. I plan on downloading that and using it if I can. There are likely others? The Fire is supposedly an Android device, and the operating system software is a modification of the standard Google Android OS. I have managed to connect a Bluetooth mouse and a small folding keyboard via the USB cable to the Fire 10, though again I haven't used either of those much at all. Hopefully they'll keep working and I won't have to resort to the virtual keyboard in it.
If you run across things that work for the Fire, please let me know. I'm a real newbie on tablets. Mobile devices of any kind, really (I don't have a cell phone). We've had a Fire 7 going for a few years now, but it's hooked into our stereo system and only used to play Pandora Radio through it. I don't use that one for anything else. At the time it was just the most reliable and least expensive way of feeding Pandora into the home stereo (streaming off the Wifi router in the house).
Thanks,
Not Wes
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Post by Colin on Feb 22, 2020 4:47:08 GMT -5
I did a quick search for a broken link checker, couldn't find the tool I used years ago but this one is online and free: www.brokenlinkcheck.comI ran it on the main site URL www.spearfishlaketales.com and it pretty quickly found several. I stopped it after a couple of minutes but it had already reported: Processed 273 web pages, found 32 broken links It gives a nice output table with hot links to take you to the problem page/link. |
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Post by Not Wes on Feb 22, 2020 10:22:28 GMT -5
Thanks, Colin,
I didn't think of trying that solution. Had forgotten those things existed, to tell the truth.
I'll give it a try and see what I can do to fix any internal links that it reveals. Lots of those the tool suggests are likely links to external sites with pages no longer up and can't be fixed. I'll take a look and see what I can do. Maybe I'll catch the one mis is having trouble with while I'm at it.
Not Wes
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Post by Not Wes on Feb 22, 2020 12:28:54 GMT -5
Okay, Colin,
I just let that brokenlinkcheck site run until the bitter end. Results:
Status
COMPLETED!
Processed 2172 web pages, found 65 broken links
That wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. And my guess as to the number of pages on the site was pretty close. I wanted to figure a little high so used 60 books (there are actually only 58) and an average of 36 chapters each. That comes out to 2,160 pages.
Many of those broken links listed are links to external pages that have either moved or don't exist any longer. Some are to books for sale on various host sites like Kobo.com. I may be able to find them again if they've moved, but sometimes I can't. Many of such I'm not going to work hard at. If I can easily find them, I'll fix the link. If not, they stay dead, some of them with a note there on the page that says it's a dead link, or I might just eliminate the link if it no longer matters. It will take a while to work through the list. If anyone has any "pet peeves" let me know and I'll concentrate on those. Because I haven't been getting many such, I'm figuring most of them don't bother many readers.
I do see a few places that are internal links (from one page to another on Wes's site) and should be easily fixable. I'll get to those as I have time. There might be more of them than I think.
On a quick look I don't see any links that might be causing mis's problem (what started this thread), and I'm hoping that it's an Android error or equivalent as you suggested a few messages above. I don't know what machine or operating system he was having trouble on. I'm not certain that this link checker thingie actually checks everything, so there could still be a problem that isn't showing. If anyone has a problem, please let me know and list what page you were on, and which page you were trying to go to.
Thanks, again,
Not Wes
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