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**chris** · #16 1 May 2012

Scus my possible blondness, but where's the search function on the HUBB?

I can see the "whole HU search" function at the top right of the page. It looks very similar to the old one... Sorry if I'm casting aspersions. If it is the same, I'll continue to use Google.

Also I'm told I have 22 notifications in my "Welcome Chris" box. Actually I have NO notifications. The "22" seems to be the number of "Likes" I've received to my posts.

PS. Just clicked on the 22, got a list of where I've been liked, and now it says "0 Unread Private Messages" as it should do = This issue is solved.

PS2. Found a "search this forum" function, but it only searches the sub forum, in this case the HU-Bar (as that's where I am), not the whole HUBB

PS3. Found the HUBB search. Nicely hidden at the bottom of the "posts in the last xxx hours" page as a drop down option within "Forum Jump". Is there a button anywhere near the top of the page that I haven't spotted? If there isn't, I think there should be.

PS4. Did a bit of testing on the "search whole HU site" function at the top right and it really doesn't give many meaningful results. I will continue to use the Google criteria site:horizonsunlimited.com word1 word2 word3

PS5. The layout of what's displayed when you click "New to HU" from the Home page at Introduction - 4 easy steps to motorcycle travel | Horizons Unlimited needs fixing. The text/images are aren't where they should be (using W7 and latest IE)

PS6. The links to the travellers meets pages then produce pages using the old layout/menu bars. I presume some of the site is still work in progress? The Greece meeting link is a 404.

**mustaphapint** · #17 1 May 2012

like it.
Well done

**McCrankpin** · #18 1 May 2012

All looks pretty good. Nice to have a change of appearance.
And looks less cluttered now.

Can certainly imagine the huge sigh of relief - maybe I even heard it early that morning the other day - the faint sigh in the westerly wind.......

**Endurodude** · #19 1 May 2012

The front page looks much more navigation-friendly!

I was surprised when I saw it, but I will love it soon! Thanks for the hard work - we will appreciate your efforts!

**Knight of the Holy Graal** · #20 1 May 2012

Wonderful, I like this new version a lot!!

**xfiltrate** · #21 1 May 2012

It was May 3, 2007 that I joined Horizons Unlimited - 5 years ago.

I have learned a lot about motorcycles and about riding motorcycles internationally. I have made friends, promoted our business and have become more of an overland survivor than I ever believed possible. All this because of Horizons Unlimited. I have been trail blazing to new Horizons ever since joining.

This new format is terrific. I am sure it will encourage others to join and be of benefit to those of us already on board.

xfiltrate

**Grant Johnson** · #22 1 May 2012

Thanks! They're not nearly off the hook, optimizartion is the next stage. We wanted to make sure it WORKED when it's simple before we got into serious optimizing. Caching is already on and working well, and yeah the 612 unnecessary calls is annoying.

Sounds like you're a serious techie in this area. Please contact me off line and perhaps we can use your expertise!

We never turn down experts!

Quote:

Originally Posted by T.H.E

Hi Grant,

It looks good and a major upgrade to the old one. But don't let your developers off the hook just yet. The site needs to be heavily optimized as your front page alone is 1.16MB in size and it has 61 unnecessary http requests. This means extremely slow performance on not-so-great connections and ultimately hurting you in the long run by losing visitors and advertisers.

The next very important thing that they should do is to enable gzip compression to reduce static file transfer size. That alone would knock down the page size by 150kb.

If you need help relaying this stuff to your guys, let me know.

**Grant Johnson** · #23 1 May 2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by McCrankpin

All looks pretty good. Nice to have a change of appearance.
And looks less cluttered now.

Can certainly imagine the huge sigh of relief - maybe I even heard it early that morning the other day - the faint sigh in the westerly wind.......

Thanks!

but faint? really? more like that storm that went through at about 1 am...

but the basics are there, so we're very happy with it. LOTS left to do, we'll be busy all summer on it.

**brclarke** · #24 1 May 2012

I must be a curmudgeon - I hate change. Ah well, it does look a bit nicer.

**Grant Johnson** · #25 1 May 2012