1884 : Terrible Earthquake Hits England

2 Responses to 1884 : Terrible Earthquake Hits England

1. Sean Peake says:

   March 25, 2011 at 1:25 pm

   OT, but your iPad platform does not work. I sent Anthony my evaluation of his switch (he has since pulled it down) but at the time I didn’t know it was a WordPress template.
   Graphics/images are obscured by the heads and initial copy. It looks busy or that the page didn’t load properly. Lose either the intro copy or the images. I’d prefer losing the copy since your headlines are always effective. Users can tell what the article just by viewing the head and your choice image.
   -I can understand why you wanted to have pages swiped rather than scroll down; the iPad only has a top of page function, not bottom of the page, which makes reading comments a pain—unless of course you decide to put the most recent at the top. That said currently the“swipe me” arrow directs action from left to right to reach the next page. Not the case. If you want to keep it on the right side, change the text to read “next” and make it a tap function (it can still have the page turn effect) or make the arrow point to the left to indicate direction of motion.

   Anyway, it sucks, don’t use it until WP gets a half decent programmer and graphic designer to fix all the problems, which are many—I bailed on your site as soon as the home page loaded, so I didn’t bother to track them all down, but believe me there will be a lot.

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2. Red Jeff says:

   March 25, 2011 at 1:28 pm

   I owe you BIG TIME !!!!!!! I have a bound copy of the ‘London Illustrated News’ from Apr. 19 – Nov. 29 1884. It’s on pg 390… will try to forward if I can!

   “Every now and then we hear of a slight earthquake tremor at some remote place such as Comrie, in Perthshire…” Aye, theivin’ buggers, yer a’ways blamin’ us!

   In gratitude…. Jeff

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