Roadfood.com Update

Re:Roadfood.com Update (The Travelin Man)

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:51:30 GMT

The Travelin Man
...I am sure that there are a few more things you are working on - and tweaks will continue, but if you are building a wish list for future enhancements, perhaps on each review, you can add a link to other reviews submitted by the same reviewer - or maybe something could be added to their profile page (with a direct link). I don't want to belabor the oft-discussed point of people trusting/not trusting user-submitted reviews, but, perhaps readers might be able to make a more balanced decision on the value of the review if they can put things into perspective of other places the same reviewer enjoyed/didn't like?

I don't know when this enhancement came online, but I like it. I was just checking some reviews today and noticed that the writers names were hyperlinks and the link does take the viewer to a list of the reviews submitted submitted by the same user. I think that this is valuable information to have - if someone has reviewed multiple places, we can now see what places were liked and/or not liked by the same reviewer at an easy click. On the other hand, if someone just has one review and no other context of what they do like, whoever is reading that review can also take that into account.

There doesn't appear to be as many situations where people come along and post one negative review of a place and never contribute again - but, I do recall that being a problem some time ago.

Either way, thanks for the improvement!

Re:Roadfood.com Update (Rick F.)

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:08:28 GMT

Oops! I just cleared my cache and the problem went away. Is that what did it?

Anyway, sorry!

Some time ago there was a complaint about photos being covered up by advertising. Here's a link to an occurrence today:

http://www.roadfood.com/Reviews/Writeup.aspx?ReviewID=6649&RefID=6450

Re:Roadfood.com Update (ScreamingChicken)

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:22:26 GMT

BB has a house?

I thought he just rotated between planes, rental cars, and hotel rooms!

Brad

Re:Roadfood.com Update (mayor al)

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:18:04 GMT

BB
You have C A R P E T in your house? Sheesch!

Re:Roadfood.com Update (Davydd)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:10:55 GMT

CajunKing

Nope, I saw the post where he said changes were coming (several posts up) but no mention of the changes.

It may have been in another message thread, but I am not going to go hunt it down.

Re:Roadfood.com Update (The Travelin Man)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:47:19 GMT

We could also change the site name to Googlefood, if we are going to effect TJ's change!

Re:Roadfood.com Update (TJ Jackson)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:10:45 GMT

I think they should be changed to clovers for 24 hours next tuesday

Re:Roadfood.com Update (CajunKing)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:06:19 GMT

Nope, I saw the post where he said changes were coming (several posts up) but no mention of the changes.

Re:Roadfood.com Update (Davydd)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:59:23 GMT

CK,

Did you not see the message Stephen posted saying he changed them to stars? I'm not sure why since it was supposed to be a license plate and I've never seen a license plate with star holes.

At first glance you might think the holes do not line up like was originally discussed. On close examination they do now.

Re:Roadfood.com Update (Foodbme)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:37:16 GMT

Saw the stars AFTER you pointed them out. Your sharp eyesight must be the result of clean living and making a good Roux!!

Re:Roadfood.com Update (buffetbuster)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:33:06 GMT

CK-
You expect me to notice that? I couldn't even tell you what color carpeting I have in my house.

Re:Roadfood.com Update (CajunKing)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:30:20 GMT

What no follow ups???

Did ANYONE notice the stars instead of holes in the roadfood logo??

Re:Roadfood.com Update (CajunKing)

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:24:42 GMT

Stephen Rushmore Jr.

Davydd

I too noticed something was out of kilter and at first I thought it might have just been an optical illusion. So, I grabbed an image of the Roadfood.com logo and examined it in Photoshop. The upper left, upper right and lower right are all in line with each other. The hole out of place is the lower left hole. It is too high and too far to the left. You only need to fix one hole.

You guys are sharp! I actually added those holes myself, and thought they were close enough that nobody else would notice. My graphic artist is going to send me a cleaned up version next week along with another very, very minor change. Boy, you can't let anything slip by you people!

HEY
The holes are now stars!!

Did anyone else notice??

Re:Roadfood.com Update (jeepguy)

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:35:52 GMT

Bruce Bilmes and Sue Boyle

jeepguy

Bruce Bilmes and Sue Boyle

I don't understand, Greyghost. Could you give an example of where the front page is a mess? I'm not seeing it.

I think the layout of the front page should be wider to fill up the screen.

jeepguy, do you have a widescreen monitor?

No, just a 17" notebook. What i see on the home page is the picture of the day, or whatever, with a huge orange border around it. Doesn't look right to me. The page would look better if it were more filled in. Other than that, and not yet clearing my cookies, i love it! A big improvement! Quack Quack!

Re:Roadfood.com Update (AHR)

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:27:42 GMT

Davydd-

Ah, but if you move only the lower-left hole, then the two bottom holes will be closer to the bottom of the license plate than the two upper holes are to the top of the license plate.

Re:Roadfood.com Update (Stephen Rushmore Jr.)

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:54:55 GMT

Davydd

I too noticed something was out of kilter and at first I thought it might have just been an optical illusion. So, I grabbed an image of the Roadfood.com logo and examined it in Photoshop. The upper left, upper right and lower right are all in line with each other. The hole out of place is the lower left hole. It is too high and too far to the left. You only need to fix one hole.

You guys are sharp! I actually added those holes myself, and thought they were close enough that nobody else would notice. My graphic artist is going to send me a cleaned up version next week along with another very, very minor change. Boy, you can't let anything slip by you people!

Re:Roadfood.com Update (Tony Bad)

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:48:57 GMT

leethebard

Yeah...I see that...last time a moderator said they were just experimenting,I think...what's the excuse this time...and who types this in?????? I think explanations are owed to the members!!!!!!!

No one types it in. When your "score" drops below -30 the name changes to quack-quack. I believe it is a setting in the software.

Re:Roadfood.com Update (jeepguy)

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:43:58 GMT

Quack, Quack, Quack!

Re:Roadfood.com Update (leethebard)

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:43:55 GMT

Yeah...I see that...last time a moderator said they were just experimenting,I think...what's the excuse this time...and who types this in?????? I think explanations are owed to the members!!!!!!!

Re:Roadfood.com Update (CajunKing)

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:30:42 GMT

leethebard

Hey I have company...wanderingjew, under your name is the "quack Quack Quack "too....what gives????

Chewingthefat is in your club also

Re:Roadfood.com Update (leethebard)

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:27:10 GMT

Hey I have company...wanderingjew, under your name is the "quack Quack Quack "too....what gives????

Re:Roadfood.com Update (leethebard)

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:24:47 GMT

Well here we go again...who's fooling around...under my name,is "Quack Quack Quack"...can a moderator be doing this??? It's in bad taste,if they are????????? Explain please!

Re:Roadfood.com Update (Davydd)

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:11:27 GMT

I too noticed something was out of kilter and at first I thought it might have just been an optical illusion. So, I grabbed an image of the Roadfood.com logo and examined it in Photoshop. The upper left, upper right and lower right are all in line with each other. The hole out of place is the lower left hole. It is too high and too far to the left. You only need to fix one hole.

Re:Roadfood.com Update (AHR)

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:58:07 GMT

Stephen Rushmore Jr.

A minor thing, but since the new logo appears everywhere: Were two of the four screwholes in the license plate logo deliberately misplaced?

Huh?

Look a little more carefully, and you'll see that the upper-left screwhole is too far to the right and the lower-right one is too low. If this is to become the ubiquitous new Roadfood symbol, it might as well be correct. It's the sort of thing that a professional designer would have noticed, which was why I asked whether it was intentional.

Re:Roadfood.com Update (Davydd)

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:40:41 GMT

Foodbme

mr chips

Love the layout. Still need help on how to edit posts .

I think this is how to do it. Once you post a message, you can go over to the top right of YOUR message and open the "Mesage Options" Box. Scroll to the "Edit Message" option and you're there!

There is more to it than that. I've noticed that when you first write your message and place a photo from say Photobucket.com you can see the HTML img tags and the URL reference but when you go back to edit all you see is the photo in your edit window. Some other HTML code is also that way in the edit window as well. I did an accidental strikeout because I used [] instead of () to enclose an "s". Not knowing that I didn't close the HTML code with /s and everything after the initial s was struck out including the person following that quoted my message. So, some strange things are going on with editing.

Re:Roadfood.com Update (brickie)

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:25:47 GMT

brickie

Stephen Rushmore Jr.

Try clicking the signout button in the upper-right hand corner and then close your browser. Afterwards, clear your browser cache and Roadfood cookies. Let me know if that works.

AH HAA! Now it works perfectly!
Thanks!

Check that, back to logging in every time!

Re:Roadfood.com Update (Foodbme)

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:20:48 GMT

mr chips

Love the layout. Still need help on how to edit posts .

I think this is how to do it. Once you post a message, you can go over to the top right of YOUR message and open the "Mesage Options" Box. Scroll to the "Edit Message" option and you're there!

Re:Roadfood.com Update (Stephen Rushmore Jr.)

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:20:17 GMT

A minor thing, but since the new logo appears everywhere: Were two of the four screwholes in the license plate logo deliberately misplaced?

Huh?

Re:Roadfood.com Update (AHR)

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:57:34 GMT

A minor thing, but since the new logo appears everywhere: Were two of the four screwholes in the license plate logo deliberately misplaced?

Re:Roadfood.com Update (mayor al)

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:06:56 GMT

Ruby-
You traced the secret! Congratulations. We had a secret meeting and selected the color from a bunch of tile samples from small city airport dinners around the country.
1st Runner-up was the Bison-Beige from the Lewiston Idaho Airport cafe
2nd Runner-up was Meerkat Magenta from the Laredo Texas Airport Taco stand
And Finally. The 3rd Runner-up was the Runny-Yolk Yellow from the Airport diner in Sunbury,Ohio.

I think we selected he Best of the Bunch!

And Michael... I had the same trouble signing off and on until I cleared out the cookies in my IE cache file. I had to re-enter them with each of the sites I had stuff stored for, but that has been fairly easy, even for me !!