Thanks Egg and Boy. I only built out the 960 px variant so that expains why you see what you see. Sorry, I should not have shared a link till it was more valid.
eric
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I maximized the browser on my desktop monitor (>> 960) and I still see the same image.
I do see content, but it takes several seconds for the animation to kick in and the content comes into view.
Is it just me? If I view your site in FireFox I see the following, In Chrome it renders correctly:
Looks great in Chrome. With Firefox, I get an error message: Secure connection failed. I have stopped using Firefox because it gets so many error messages... and also so many threats - warnings about malware, etc..
Our eBay seller account kept getting hacked - somebody adding code to the end of our description and eBay complained and I had to delete it manually. Hasn't happened since I switched to Chrome.
Too bad... I love Firefox, but it has really give me a lot of trouble for several months.
no problems that I can see for me egg with firefox [quantum 60.0.2 64bit] - maybe it's an extension causing the issue...
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All I can say is I'm not seeing a website that has meaningful content. Here's my version of FF:
ok only difference I can see is mine is the 64bit fox yours is 32bit
the only extension [edit: ie 'add-on'] I have is noscript - have to give scripting permisions to see the site as you would expect with this extension...
you did refresh cache ?
For me it was AdBlock in FFox - disable and all is well. Very nice site once you can see its
edit: AdBlocker says 73 ads on the page - ?? Maybe it is the links that all go to Xara?
Good find.That was the problem I was having on FF. "216 adverts??. I use adblockers all the time. I wouldn't create a site that stops the site rendering correctly just because of ads.
most ads are blocked by noscript as it happens, one of the reasons I use it... that's not relevant to this site as such, just explains why I don't use an ad-blocker as well - no script is very good at preventing one of the banes of my online life: sites that play audio, especially ad audio, automatically
Thanks to all that figured that out. I mainly use FireFox and that is the first browser I test with. So I was confused about it not showing for others.
As to the site being blocked because of adverts? Not sure what that comes from. Maybe the X Builder blocks have ads hidden in them?
thanks again,
maybe more likely that it's structured in such a way that adblocker sees it as 'ads' - false positive?
and maybe the 'ADS' site header does not help ;))
so what is the verdict? I have adblock and it blocked everything some 200+ items, that is just bad.
So, I had to do the site in another tool since I used my eCommerce solution, ecwid, does not play nice with Xara variants. Here is the link to the new site. It is not xblocks but the same customer ADS. Also the same server to host my previews. Can ya'll see if you get blocks from here?
https://eric.dollaradaysites.net/ads2/
This is what I get in chrome running adblock, otherwise it looks good without adblock. Someone should write to the author.
I thin this may be your server. What tool did you use?
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Thanks. Going to look into it. Not good if a potential customer got that page.
thanks to all for the help
Is the culprit xbuilder or his server?
The second generation of the website is built with WYSIWYG Web Builder 14. So, no the ad blocks on this version are not xbuilder. Checking with my server support to see if something is there. Could it be so simple as the name of the company and the site being ADS?
First of all try changing the subfolder name. If you still get blocked change ADS to A.D.S maybe?
Are the updates all free? Future ones too?
Acorn, I ran one of his headers on a website for speed optimization results and there are many errors. Is that the way xara does things. Have a go at it.
https://tools.pingdom.com/
It's ok dear Acorn. I am looking for a perfect Score A for websites created with xara with those online testing sites for website speed etc...
For those that are interested and don't yet know, X Builder was updated on the 8th November.
Quite a lot has changed, updated to 888 blocks (from 817).
Added Auto-fit to page feature to all blocks.
All blocks have only 2 variants now.
Divided into categories.
Can now install and use from Local Design Gallery
Hundreds of fixes.
I see some new videos too.
How does the mobile horizontal view accommodate the new Iphones X's? I now design my mobiles at 700px.
Also the new feature (2 variants: Mobile (480px) and Main (960px) with Auto-fit to page feature – you can easily create new variants,) Auto-fit to page? This is something that xara templates all have issues with on the new iphones X's. I have reported this to Xara and although they said they will look into it, I have not heard a thing.
Is the creator of X Builder on this thread? or Forum? If so would you mind telling us how we can code Auto-fit to page using Xara? Another thing is due to the higher resolutions of mobile, the res. of 480 is no longer sufficient. Like I mentioned above, I set my Mobile to 700 px and Desktop to 1130.
Very interested in this product. Now I'm doing 4 sites and maintain all of them. So much for retirement. Now I'm a full time volunteer.
@onlye -- I noticed on the www.xaratemplates.com page Xbuilder is mentioned as well.
Does anyone know for any paid template on this page offered by Xara templates - are they complete websites, or just the opening page ? Must be more than one page. There's a couple of sites samples that are reasonable for vet clinics I could probably convert.
Thanks
Bill
Bill, full websites.
Incidentally, it always befuddles me that people as for a Brand X template as if any of the Xara-designed templates are specially crafted for Brand α through ω.The marketing trick is that they are almost all the same and revolve around a very few meta-templates. Pick one of the templates closest to your layout and alter text and images.
Good Luck.
Acorn
Bill,
If you click on the Live Demo button under the templates you will be able to view and navigate all the pages included.
Just noticed that there is a big sale on x-builder, no I do not get commission on this, simply want to tell the community.
https://xaratemplates.com/x-builder/