New Mobile-Friendly Modifications to the Site

Hi guys I've made quite a few changes to help make LTB easier to browse and use on a mobile phone/cell phone browser. These changes do alter the look of the site on desktop as well. The one big change as I'm sure you've noticed is that the entire left column is gone. This is to help maximize the screen real-estate when you are browsing on a phone.

I also made many small changes on the view topic page. For instance it should now be easier to navigate a thread (going to the next page, previous page, etc) as the space between the links (now look now buttons) are larger. The spacing between some of the small icons have been increased also.

If you have any feedback or issues please reply to this thread, and I will look into it. Thanks guys!

great news

I thought something was up, but just assumed it was a server overload. I have noticed that the page numbers on the bottom of the site are a bit erratic at the moment, but I don't know if that's just me or not.

Hey, thanks for making the change. I usually check Topbuzz on my phone, so this helps a lot.

Hey,Dave it's still user friendly even from a lap top.It's much easier for phone users i am sure.Good job with the site Dave.

So is there a new website for it? It still looks the same to me when I browse

Thanks guys- yeah I'm eager to hear how it looks on a variety of phones. The experience was much better on my phone (a Motorola Android phone) after these changes, but I'd like hear how it is on an iPhone and other popular phones as well.

Nope- same site- does it fit on the screen better for you now?

Actually it's a Lil better... Now that I see it. Was a n iphone user for 4yrs and been browsing ltb on it... Wasn't that great doh. At couple of weeks ago, I I got the s3 and ditched apple for DROID. Bigger screen. It looks good on Android. Keep it up Dave, and hopefully u can fully integrate it into a mobile Site. Here Thnx for the hard work.

I'm not a big fan of the changes. It was much better the way it was. I liked being able to go back to the home page and refresh the page that way. Now you have to hit the back button then click refresh.

If u jus integrate it into tap talk. It wud b awesome!

I was wondering why it looked different. I approve cause I use LTB on my phone quite a bit.

You can click on the Lakers Topbuzz logo at the top of the page that works basically like the home button did.

Its so much better and easier to navigate now!! I used to always have a hard time switching between the pages. Great improvement!

You can use the menu that expands from the plus sign. And yeah alternatively u can click the ltb banner up top or click the "go home" link at the bottom.

Haha Thats what I thought at first. And yes the page numbers on mine are erratic as well. I use LTB on my iPhone quite a bit. I was fine with the old version...but this new version is definitely more mobile friendly. The only thing i don't like is that it changed the desktop site too. I wish the desktop site stayed the same.

Good job Dave, I was really confused at 1st but I get it now

Kbp24 & L4k- are the page numbers still looking odd?

Yeah its less erratic. And its different from the original page numbers.

Dave,

Page numbers are different but fine now. They're a little more spaced out but before they we're going down the page vertically lol. It's fine now.

Hey its progress dave. Cant complain. Life is a little easier on here. Thanks

Anyone else have Mozilla Firefox and can't see the Stars right next to Our Votes. In fact, I can't even see the "Moderator" label on anyone either. On Opera I can see that stuff not on Firefox though.

Hey Dave -

I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this but a "home" tab in the upper left or upper top section would be useful. I know you can get to it by hovering over the "+" tab, but a direct link would useful too.

There's no need. You can click the Logo at the top to re-direct you to the home screen. I bet a lot of people didn't know that.

Good post Dave,i gave you a rep for the good post and LTB improvements.Keep up the good work.

Great news can't wait to check it out when I get a new phone. You see I am on vacation and I had my phone in my back pocket so I jumped into the pool and when I came up 30min later i found out that Samsung Galaxy s3 is not water proof 8)

I will deff. hit you back

Running a windows phone and it looks pretty great. The page numbers are a ton easier to press now. My only complaint is that the "go to top" and "go home" buttons are a little small

looks good on the iphone

Can we get rid of this Blue plus sign thing, it continues to get in my way of typing all the time through post. I don't even know what it's function is.

its a jump screen to the home menu, works great for me.

TERRY-TEAGLE contacted me about this issue too. Are you using an iPhone as well? I'm having problem duplicating the problem- can you take a screenshot of it getting in your way? Thanks.

Dave,

I have to admit, I miss the scrolling EVERYTHING ELSE thing on the right side of the page when I log in with my PC. It was great to see so easily any new posts there.

^^Randy- it's still there- unless you're talking about positioning? It has been moved down just a little, since I had to move the Search box from the now gone left column to the right column.

lol,

It wasn't a few minutes ago. Now it is. I think it was the traffic Dave.

I've got 2 screen shots dave, 1 vertical 1 horizontal.

It's no big deal, but it does tend to get in the way. Only while typing a message though.

Yup- that's it- site is being bombarded right now.

Thanks for the screen shots FISH! I'll try to think of something to prevent that + from getting in the way.

Okay for those of you having issues with the + sign pull out menu popping out inadvertently and affecting the post box, try it again now. I've made it so that you have to click the + sign in order to expand the menu.

Dave,

It's working like a charm. Thanks a lot for that. Although it was no biggie. BTW, thanks for the rep .

I'll check it on my droid. Great idea. I had given up on phone access before. I'm sure this will be very helpful Dave.

Ouch! That's better than dropping it in the toilet though. I don't wish that experience on anyone else.

Thanks for the tip FISH+SWISH!

Tried the site out on my phone and it was much easier to use this site

Hey Dave,

The text on the site is compacted for me now, not taking up the length of the screen as it used to.

Dave, not a fan of the new short compact message viewing part. The older display option which made use of the entire length was much better. It's also looking clunky this way.

Dan,

I love using LTB on my droid and the changes to the site makes this experience even better now. Thanks Dave!!

L4K, KS_V2- yeah last night I made the post body column fixed length because a lot of times a large image inserted in a thread page will stretch the right edge of the column by a lot, making all posts on the page harder to read (sometimes impossible without using the horizontal scroll bar). This thread is a perfect example with the screen shot which had stretched the right edge of the page too much, but now because of the change, the other posts of the thread are not affected.

But I like to hear more feedback on this. If a lot of people don't like this change, let me know in this thread and I can set it back the way it was.

Dave,

I'm not a big fan of this compacted style either, I do prefer the older way as well. I'd much rather the site look cleaner on my computer and work around it on my mobile.

There's should be a Lakers Topbuzz app!