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Welcome to the new-look TV Tonight!

As you will have already noticed, the site has some new features and attributes, so let me talk you through some of these….

HOME PAGE

  • The site now has a Carousel of 5 in place of the former 2 x Top Stories on the old site. These will continue to include a mix of News, Programming, Pay TV and Reviews, all of which can also be found in their respective verticals. You can click on any of the thumbnails to stop the Carousel on an individual story in order to click through to the Post itself.
  • A new Menu has been added with each of the 5 networks plus Foxtel. These offer dropdown lists of profile shows that are on air (or about to air). It will then take you to all the recent stories mentioning the show, using the Tag system. This Menu is designed to help you find stories about your show more easily. Listed shows will fluctuate accordingly. I hope you like it.
  • Previous sections Coming Soon and Guides are now a subset of the Programming tab.
  • The News section is now much larger. As you can see it also shows the number of comments on each story.
  • Two verticals on Pay TV and Programming follow and Reviews are located at the bottom of the front page. All of these feeds can be accessed from the top Menu.
  • In the right-hand column you can now see Daily Pick, ICE TV Guide, Ratings and the Poll.

INDIVIDUAL POSTS

  • The essentials of each story remain intact. At the end of the post there is a section called “Related.” This will link through to other stories that also mention the same show/s, again using the Tag system. Comments follow thereafter.
  • In the right hand column you will find the Tag Cloud and recent Comments, plus a shortcut to recent stories.
  • At the left of each story is a floating widget for social media. You can Tweet a story, like it on Facebook, send via email or Google+.

COMMENTS

  • In order to Comment you now need to register an ID. You can continue to use the handle you have been using but you need to register through a working email. Note the password you are sent and then you can change it once you are logged in. The site will take you to a standard WordPress profile page and even offers a toolbar that sits across the site if you prefer. When you are logged in you will find the link to bring you back to the site sits at the top left of the toolbar. If it feels a little overwhelming at first, have patience. You’ll get used to it in no time and realise the benefits later I trust. Your cookies should remember you so you don’t have to keep logging in everyday. I believe adding an ID will lift the tone of comments, for the benefit of all.
  • Please remember no CAPS, no links and no slagging off other readers. Debate is healthy, abuse is not.
  • As we are all adults here you’ll be pleased to know the site will now allow more liberal use of language. I think common sense tells us the words that are still on the naughty list. Otherwise Comments moderation remains as is.

So that’s about it. The site is now in Beta mode during this transition phase, just in case of any teething problems.

There is no change to Twitter, mobile platform, Ratings, breaking news etc. And yes, it’s still just me pedalling madly behind the scenes, but I am grateful for your support.

From Monday the annual Programmer’s Wrap begins, with feature interviews everyday this week. Be sure to register an ID so you can have your say -they do read the Feedback.

My thanks to web designer David McDonald for the rebuild.

Hope you enjoy the new site!

Cheers,

David.

 

UPDATE: For technical problems please ensure you have:

– latest edition of your Browser.
– javascript enabled.
– any ad-blockers turned off.

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  7. FYI – I cleared the cookies for TVTonight and WordPress and can’t log-in to today’s Daily Pick (featuring Sherlock), but I can comment on yesterdays and other stories I’ve tried, must be a minor bug.

    Again thanks for the great work David.

  8. Couple of bugs?

    I just changed my password on WordPress and now some stories won’t let me post saying I need to log-in even though I am. Yes I’m using the new password.

    2nd the resize box feature is not working in either Safari or FireFox on Mac and PC.

    Keep up the good work David.

  10. I’m in the same boat as some others here running a PPC Mac that can’t use the very latest FireFox or Safari that only run on Intel Mac’s but you mush have done something as the site appears to be working in FireFox once again… maybe it was the restart I gave my Mac yesterday? I only do that about once a week or less.

    Either way it all looks good now David, the site looks fantastic. Hope you have a good backup plan 🙂

  11. Just came to say that carousel working all ok here now – still with same setup – so something must have changed your end – thanks for fixing!

    FF 3.6.26 + adblock, flashblock (can’t turn those off – they give me an extra few gig a month on download quota ;))

  13. I am a bit disappointed as I cannot seem to load the up-to-date programming, tv lounge, etc. pages. Everytime I click onto those pages the last entry date is 31st January! I do seem to be able to get the up-to-date home page though. I only have Windows XP so am not able to upgrade to Internet Explorer 9, I only have Internet Explorer 8. Any suggestions as to how I can get full use of your site would be appreciated, thanks.

  14. David: No, I don’t have an iPad.

    Safari 4.1.3 is the latest version that I can use with OSX 10.4.11 PPC.

    Just updated to Firefox 3.6.26 (31 Jan 2012), the latest version compatible with my system (can’t run v10). The page/ad loading glitches are still present.

    Also tried Opera 10.63 (again, the latest compatible version). It displays the pages correctly, but occasionally some of the ads draw over the browser toolbars, rather than staying inside the window area.

    To run the current versions of Safari, Firefox, Opera, or OSX, I would need an Intel-based Mac. That’ll happen eventually, but not for a while.

    Like I said earlier, I haven’t seen problems like this with other websites, so hopefully a fix can be found.

  15. I’m finding the new TT website won’t load correctly. It will either:

    1. Load the page content, then jump to a blank page with an ad in the top left hand corner of the window (Safari/Firefox), or:

    2. Load the page content, then jump to a blank page, try to load an ad, but fail (Firefox), or:

    3. Load the entire web page, but incorrectly place an ad in the bottom left hand corner of the window, outside of the white content area, below the “© 2012 TV Tonight – Copyright | About | Contact | Links | Comments Policy” line (Firefox).

    I haven’t had these (ad?) loading problems with TT or other sites before now.

    Safari 4.1.3 and Firefox 3.6.25 (the latest versions I can use). Mac OSX 10.4.11 PPC. Cache flushed.

    1. Yes there are some tech problems depending on the browser / edition / adblocker people are using. Best advice is to upgrade browser editions.

      Firefox is currently at verison 10 and Safari is at version 5. Because of the old OS you are using you may also be limited in the
      Safari version. Do you have an iPad?

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