Author Topic: First version of East Bay weather is up and running (Read 6529 times)

rikostan · « **on:** June 30, 2024, 03:52:10 PM »

I am not sure if I am going to stay with the awesome scripts by Saratoga and all his helpers or not, but for now the site is up and running.
It's been like 20 years since I had a website of any kind, so this has been fun too.

https://rikostan.com/weather

I have a ton of work to do on the weather portion still and on the front page, but it's currently live.

{EDIT} I switched over to the PWS Dashboard, but I'm still heavily using the scripts from Saratoga and a few other people.
https://rikostan.com/pwsWD/

Both sites are up and running and I am trying out a third template too, but I really think the PWS one is my favorite look so far.

TrugWX · « **Reply #1 on:** July 01, 2024, 02:07:24 AM »

Your website failed to load for me. Maybe it was too far for the pigeons to fly to OZ.

mkutche · « **Reply #2 on:** July 01, 2024, 03:41:59 AM »

Quote from: rikostan on June 30, 2024, 03:52:10 PM

I am not sure if I am going to stay with the awesome scripts by Saratoga and all his helpers or not, but for now the site is up and running.
It's been like 20 years since I had a website of any kind, so this has been fun too.

https://rikostan.com/weather

I have a ton of work to do on the weather portion still and on the front page, but it's currently live.

doesn't load for me either

rikostan · « **Reply #3 on:** July 01, 2024, 07:19:45 AM »

Maybe it was down earlier? It seems up for me now and I don't see any outages.
can somebody else verify?

Vasco · « **Reply #4 on:** July 01, 2024, 07:31:06 AM »

OK here in Edge.

weatherdoc · « **Reply #5 on:** July 01, 2024, 07:33:36 AM »

Doesn't load for me, using Edge:

Hmmm… can't reach this page

rikostan.com took too long to respond

rikostan · « **Reply #6 on:** July 01, 2024, 07:46:07 AM »

Weird. It is in a new location, but I thought the DNS changes would have completed by now, which is what I *think* it might be, since it's down for some people and not others.

PaulMy · « **Reply #7 on:** July 01, 2024, 09:51:05 AM »

Hi,
It doesn't show for me in Edge nor Chrome nor Firefox

Enjoy,
Paul

SteveFitz1 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 01, 2024, 09:53:50 AM »

Not loading for me on any browser.

rikostan · « **Reply #9 on:** July 01, 2024, 10:43:29 AM »

So weird...
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Vasco · « **Reply #10 on:** July 01, 2024, 10:47:59 AM »

Still up here. . . attachment from a couple of minutes ago.

rikostan · « **Reply #11 on:** July 01, 2024, 10:49:34 AM »

LOL, Maybe this is why I stopped messing around with websites...

andro700 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 01, 2024, 12:33:40 PM »

It loaded for me but it took probably 20-30 seconds to load.

Chuck

Garth Bock · « **Reply #13 on:** July 01, 2024, 01:35:39 PM »

Loaded fine for me on Chrome on my Android Tablet. One thing....the picture at the top eats up a big piece of the page...kinda overwhelms and makes the weather section look very small. It also requires scrolling to see the stats. This is on my 11 inch Onn tablet. Is that picture going to be live shots from a weather cam or a rotating slide show? Would like nicer if it was smaller with the East Bay Weather line more prominent. Just a small suggestion. Not sure if the template forces that or could be modified. Oh and by the way...60 degrees???? Here in the Ozarks we are having a cold snap....85 F with a feels like of 90 F 😥

Vasco · « **Reply #14 on:** July 01, 2024, 01:43:21 PM »

Quote from: Garth Bock on July 01, 2024, 01:35:39 PM

Just a small suggestion. Not sure if the template forces that or could be modified.

Agreed: "Less is more". . . see mine

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Oh and by the way...60 degrees????

I see that is today's High and Low. . .

Garth Bock · « **Reply #15 on:** July 01, 2024, 03:44:42 PM »

Nice change ! My attention was drawn more down the page to the sat views and then on to the current data. Looks great !

rikostan · « **Reply #16 on:** July 01, 2024, 04:10:19 PM »

Thanks, I appreciate the feedback! Tons of little things to work out still. I'll probably get it all sorted, then decide to switch to a different template package.

weatherdoc · « **Reply #17 on:** July 02, 2024, 07:13:41 AM »

Loaded in a fraction of a second this morning - looks good.

rikostan · « **Reply #18 on:** July 02, 2024, 09:41:46 AM »

Quote from: weatherdoc on July 02, 2024, 07:13:41 AM

Loaded in a fraction of a second this morning - looks good.

Thanks! I think the DNS issues are sorted out and the data is consistent too, so now it's on to more tweaks! I still gotta find my "voice" as it were.

rikostan · « **Reply #19 on:** July 03, 2024, 03:46:21 PM »

Testing out the PWS_Dashboard... Diggin' it!

https://rikostan.com/pwsWD/index.php

blizzardof78 · « **Reply #20 on:** July 20, 2024, 06:44:57 PM »

I really like the looks of your page. Nice job!!!

Garth Bock · « **Reply #21 on:** July 20, 2024, 07:11:28 PM »

Looks great ! One little thing....the rain on the window background makes the forecast hard to read. If that is just a jpeg background you could edit it and drop its opacity down some so the text overlay stands out better. Just my 2cents (USD).

rikostan · « **Reply #22 on:** July 20, 2024, 07:32:31 PM »

Quote from: blizzardof78 on July 20, 2024, 06:44:57 PM

I really like the looks of your page. Nice job!!!

Thanks! Still have some work to do, but it's mostly done.

Quote from: Garth Bock on July 20, 2024, 07:11:28 PM

Looks great ! One little thing....the rain on the window background makes the forecast hard to read. If that is just a jpeg background you could edit it and drop its opacity down some so the text overlay stands out better. Just my 2cents (USD).

How about now? You were right, the blue font on that transparent background DID make it tough to see. I just bumped the transparency down a bit.

Thanks for the feedback!

Garth Bock · « **Reply #23 on:** July 20, 2024, 10:56:10 PM »

Looks even better !

rikostan · « **Reply #24 on:** July 28, 2024, 07:29:32 PM »

Okay, made some more changes. Hopefully, the menu is still nice and clear.
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I also tweaked some of the other colors and backgrounds to increase readability.

https://rikostan.com/pwsWD/

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Author Topic: First version of East Bay weather is up and running (Read 6529 times)