#8287 09-23-2006 02:19 PM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,912 Likes: 52 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | OP  OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,912 Likes: 52 | As many of you know we have been in a complete rebuild of the OCF website's hundreds of pages. (Actually a larger number if you consider all the news article pages) We are about 90% done making the site compliant with the new web standards (W3C - you can click on the little icon on the bottom right of the home page to learn more) This new web standard will speed up and revolutionize the way people view sites on the web. Anyway, when you are rebuilding this many pages there are plenty of opportunities to screw up a link, connect it to the wrong new page, create typos, and more. Chester and I would be very appreciative if as many of you as possible would wander around the site, reading the pages for errors that we might have missed, or links that do not work or go to the right new page. (There are some intentional dead links in the site that will go new pages soon to be put up) You may get linked to a page that looks like the old OCF page style, and if so, please copy the URL of the page and email it to me with any other errors that you find. When you write copy and build the pages yourself, it is very easy to miss things, as your mind already knows what the sentence says, and will blow right buy a wrong word, a misspelling, etc. Any help from those that have time would be greatly appreciated.
As soon as we are sure that things are good to this point, we have many new pages to start putting up on eating, swallowing, and speech issues, reconstruction including dental implants, and the addition of about 50 PDF articles from oral cancer authorities that will go into more depth related to many of the oral cancer topics which we have obtained permission to add to the site. We will also be adding a completely new section on end of life issues. This has been a difficult part to find qualified professional co-authors for, and equally difficult to write. But it is a necessary component of a comprehensive site. Please chip in proofreaders, and help us offer quality pages that work properly to the thousands of people that come to us each day.
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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#8288 09-24-2006 05:04 AM | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 663 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 663 | Brian, when I go to the home page all of the text disappears. I can highlight it and read it for a moment but when the little annimation at the bottom of the page transitions it disappears again.
Is it me?
Thanks,
Cindy
Caregiver to ex-husband Harry. Dx 12/10/04 SCC stg 3, BOT with 2 nodes left side. No surg/chemo x4 /rad.x37(rad comp. 03/29/05)Cisplatin/5FU(comp. 05/07/05)-T1N2M0-(cancer free 06/14/05)-(12/10/06) 2 yr. Survivor!!!
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#8289 09-24-2006 05:46 AM | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 | I have the same problem. It's not just the home page, either. Other pages, the text doesn't disappear but doesn't show up unless you scroll down -- where the box for text appears to widen out because there are no menu items on the left.
SCC(T2N0M0) part.glossectomy & neck dissect 2/9/05 & 2/25/05.33 IMRT(66 Gy),2 Cisplatin ended 06/03/05.Stage I breast cancer treated 2/05-11/05.Surgery to remove esophageal stricture 07/06, still having dilatations to keep esophagus open.Dysphagia. "When you're going through hell, keep going"
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#8290 09-24-2006 01:16 PM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,912 Likes: 52 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | OP OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,912 Likes: 52 | Well, having looked at the site over the last three months since we started the rebuild on numerous computers and different operating systems, I would have to say this is something local in your machine or browser. Given all the people that come to the site, I haven't been hearing this from anyone, but that the two of you have a similar problem means there is some commonality there.
I would first be sure that I have downloaded the latest version of the web browser that you are using. Some people come to the site with a 6-generation-old web browser, and that isn't going to work very well. Regardless of whether you are a PC or MAC user, the hottest new browser out there is called firefox...you can google for it and it is a free download. Internet Explorer, even the newest versions are dinosaurs. I am going to call Chester tonight and see what he has to say about it. But I haven
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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#8291 09-25-2006 01:58 AM | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 | I will try dumping the cache. Unfortunately, I have a work-supplied laptop as my only pc right now (the other one was old and died) and I can't download and install any new application onto it without going through IT at work (they are concerned about people downloading stuff with viruses and worms that would spread through the work network) which would make geetting firefox a pain.
I am using internet explorer already, though which I think means I could install an upgrade on my own-will try to do that one of these days.
SCC(T2N0M0) part.glossectomy & neck dissect 2/9/05 & 2/25/05.33 IMRT(66 Gy),2 Cisplatin ended 06/03/05.Stage I breast cancer treated 2/05-11/05.Surgery to remove esophageal stricture 07/06, still having dilatations to keep esophagus open.Dysphagia. "When you're going through hell, keep going"
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#8292 09-25-2006 06:43 AM | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,219 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,219 | Brian,
I am having the same problem as Cindy and Nelie. It only happens on the home page.
I am using Internet Explorer, the latest version.
Jerry
Jerry
Retired Dentist, 59 years old at diagnosis. SCC of the left lateral border of the tongue (Stage I). Partial glossectomy and 30 nodes removed, 4/6/05. Nodes all clear. No chemo no radiation 18 year survivor.
"Whatever doesn't kill me, makes me stronger"
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#8293 09-25-2006 06:55 AM | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 | Brain, I've narrowed down when and possibly why the other problem I mentioned happens--the one where you can't see anything in the main text box until lower down after the menu items end. It is on the pages that the right hand (text) box begins with a big photograph : "restoration", "dental issues", "emotional aspects" and "people" were the ones I checked. The "Oral cancer in the news" page, which has a smaller picture doesn't have this problem.
I think it's just the picture won't display without overlapping the frame on the left with as small a laptop screen as I have --maybe that in combo. with an older version of internet explorer. Still, I will say that I generally do not have any problems like this at all as I surf aorund the web (which I do way too much) and I'm probably not the only person we'll get looking at these pages with a laptop and an old version of internet explorer. In some cases, it appears ther's nothing on the right side of the page at all--you can't even see where the photo begins until you scroll down!
Nelie
SCC(T2N0M0) part.glossectomy & neck dissect 2/9/05 & 2/25/05.33 IMRT(66 Gy),2 Cisplatin ended 06/03/05.Stage I breast cancer treated 2/05-11/05.Surgery to remove esophageal stricture 07/06, still having dilatations to keep esophagus open.Dysphagia. "When you're going through hell, keep going"
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#8294 09-25-2006 08:48 AM | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 624 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 624 | Brian --
Another thing is that some of the forum topics seem to be missing -- I was looking for the one "Brian and OCF in the News" to add something about recent changes in TSA rules for air travel, but there are no posts listed on the General Board between Sept. 8 and Sept. 20 (this "News" thread started Sept. 18, according to the Search function. However, when the message title -- which comes up using Search -- is clicked you get an error message saying the topic dosen't exist).
Gail
CG to husband Barry, dx. 7/21/05, age 66, SCC rgt. tonsil, BOT, 2 nodes (stg. IV), HPV+, tonsillectomy, 7x carboplatin, 35x tomoTherapy IMRT w/ Ethyol @ Johns Hopkins, thru treatment 9/28/05, HPV vaccine trial 12/06-present. Looking good!
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#8295 09-25-2006 10:40 AM | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 388 Platinum Member (300+ posts) | | Platinum Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 388 | Just for the record, I am having no problems with it here. Thanks Brian. JaneP.
Husband: 3 SCC gum and cheek cancers 2002, 2005, 2006: surgery only. Scans clear after removal of small, well differentiated, non-invasive cancers. No radiation. 4th SCC lip diagnosed 4/13/07 - in situ, removed in biopsy. More lip removed 2/8/08 - dysplasia. 2 Biopsies 3/17/09 no cancer (lichenoids)
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#8296 09-25-2006 11:19 AM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 528 "OCF Down Under" "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "OCF Down Under" "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 528 | I have no problems either using Safari on iMac. I love the new design Brian. Helen
RHTonsil SCC Stage IV tx completed May 03
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