Comments on: Site changes you requested

By: Sandy

Sandy — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:46:25 +0000

Your site SUCKS ! It takes FOREVER TO LOAD – some things never load! It loads slower than if we were on a dial-up connection, and we’re on high-speed. We used to depend upon this site for all our local info. What gives??? Buy a webmaster with some practical smarts.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:18:19 +0000

Sigh, I was actually worried Bill might be ill as he had not posted for so long. Come to realize that you had dumped your prior RSS feeds and now have new ones:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/woodtv8-blogs-bill-steffen?format=xml

http://blogs.woodtv.com/?feed=rss2&cat=1

I like the old one better to be honest … but then again, it doesn’t involve feed burner … why use a third party site.

Anyway, the last thing one should do with an RSS feed is update those to whom you syndicate content. Perhaps you noticed the drop, and perhaps you didn’t. I sure did. If it were anything other than Bill’s Blog, I’d probably have simply moved on, but his stuff is interesting so I took the time to chase it down (and it is NOT easy to find the proper RSS link either … it takes multiple levels of clicking). You can have your share this link. As a beta tester of newsvine, I get it … the whole share and syndicate thing, but it should not have been hard for me to find the rss link. I have to click on feed burner in html and then find the hidden link for the xml rss feed that I need for Thunderbird. Blah blah blah

By: David

David — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:40:10 +0000

Good bye WOODTV.COM Site takes too long to load and click twice for a main story is rediculous. WZZM13.com here I come.

By: David

David — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:17:06 +0000

Additionally, same news up all day. School closings hard to find. Old site had way too many ads but it worked and didn’t suck up all my CPU time. Probably will switch to WZZM it only takes 8K of CPU space and more headlines. It is more eye catching. I run two websites and the keys are keeping it simply and easy for the end user. Hope you fix it soon.

By: David

David — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:08:14 +0000

New website is slow and glitchy. Have to click through twice to get to a main story. Once to get a picture and one sentence. Second to actually get to the story. You page takes up a lot of CPU space as well 200+ K. I was a little nervous when you said you were switching to FOX. FoxNews.com not the best network website either. Slow and a very busy looking page. I use open in a new tab all of the time and the double click through is just a pain. Thanks

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:41:46 +0000

The look of the site is a bit bland – gray banner on the top is not exciting and wastes space
The light blue headline lettering is wimpy, not bold or eye catching
There’s too much advertising/junk that my eyes don’t go to anything quickly

I’d like to see the headlines – all 10-15 of them without having to scroll down

I’d like to have fewer repeats – if it’s in the “top 3″ news articles, then don’t repeat it in the lower section – in fact the “Lost Hunter” story appears three times right now!

I would like a “5 day forecast” link on the first page without having to hunt for it

Maybe you could find a way to let us frequent users customize a personal version of the page the way we each want it, like Yahoo let’s me customize what I have on my homepage.

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:11:50 +0000

I clicked on a news headline and there’s no details, just this?

Neighbors react to
Brake’s charges
Last Edited: Thursday, 13 Nov 2008, 1:27 AM EST
Created On: Thursday, 13 Nov 2008, 1:25 AM EST

Jessica Leffler
WRIGHT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) – Troy Brake is charged with killing four people who lived next door to the home he grew up in. Matt and Heather Trout now live in the home Brake grew up in.

By: Edwin Lane

Edwin Lane — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:04:06 +0000

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By: Tina

Tina — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:25:23 +0000

Do not like this new format at all. There aren’t enough local headlines to keep me interested enough to stick around and I find the weather area difficult to naviage.

Unfortunately, this has gone from being my favorite West Michigan news site to the least favorite. I’m going to remove woodtv.com from my bookmarks, for now. Perhaps I’ll be back in a few months to see if you’ve changed formats (again).

By: svo1

svo1 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:21:53 +0000

Thanks for the changes made to the site. It is much better than the original new version. Love the local news section with the option to read the story. Put a link on the main site to this blog now and I think most of the people, like myself that hated the original launch will like the latest version much better. I will now bookmark the site once again. thanks svo1