Customize? Yes, you can.

Your home pages are now customizable. You can move sections up and down and turn them off and on as much as you like.

The link is right next to your member name at the top of the page (hint: it has that big yellow "NEW!" right next to it).

Please let me know if you have problems. As with any new feature there will be comments and we'll respond as well as we can.

It's impossible for me to see the complete light box that pops-up when you press the "customize this page". Now I'm running IE8 beta 1, so that's definitely not supported, but since I run it in IE7 emulation mode the same might happen on the real IE7?

Maybe a screenshot might help...

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/2048/lightwrongxi3.jpg

It might be IE8 specific though, don't have a real IE7 to test with.

Mmm, seems the same problem as reported in e.g. message 382 of the second thread on the member home pages. So probably not IE8 specific.

Thanks. I tested on IE6 but I don't have an IE7 install right now.

Very nice. Things seem to be showing up fine with FireFox 3 and XP here, but the reload time for the home page after making changes is crazy slow right now. I'm hoping that's just because people are jamming up the bandwidth by playing around with the format.

But I do have to say that it is nicely done. The light boxes move around smoothly and everything seems to work correctly so far. Just the slowness in reloading for me right now.

Slowness, eh? I can blame other people for that. Yay! :)
Seriously though, I'll ask John if there is anything strange going on. Probably not. Probably just a lot of traffic right now.

I'm having the same problem as koffieyahoo. I'm running XP with IE7 and I can't see the complete light box so I can't save my alterations.

Not relevant here. Moved to:

http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=40175

I just noticed that the ER section says "July's batch is closed come back in August for a new batch."

Shouldn't that be June's batch, come back in July?

Something different: when I hover over the items in the customization dialog, my mouse cursor always looks like the four arrow thingy, pointing up, down, left, right, even when I hover over one of the check boxes. This made it not immediately clear to me that I could actually still press the check boxes.

Those are good bugs but let's keep this discussion centered on the customization feature. Feel free to post those bugs to the over-arching "Home page" topic. Or start new bug reports for them. They'll get the best response that way because they can be starred by one of us to make sure they get done.

9: Good catch. I'll check on that.
Fixed that....it'll be updated on the next push.

11: for the left pane it's fixed now, not for the right pane though.

ack... apple-z is not your friend. :)
I did an undo at some point... apparently.

It's nice, but the "Top Tags" feature added with the other stuff breaks everything on Firefox 3 for some reason. If I turn Top Tags off using the nifty customize feature, it's all good.

Ah, customization! Nice job, Chris! With the ability to turn things off and move things around, the Home Page is actually, finally, starting to feel like "home".

Same here: top tags stops FF3 from loading the rest of the page. It's also broken when I try and load the home page on IE7. Windows XP for both.

In the announcement section the link to the discussion page of the customization feature contains an extra </

Hmm...I'm running FF3 but must admit I don't have "Top Tags" as one of my choices so everything I have is running fine (my Home Page is very stripped down: just Recently Added, Recommendations, Connection News, Talk, MWYB on the one side and then the Announcements and Blogs on the other side).

Just added as an FYI for what *is* working for Chris and crew.

Help! I love my 'Home' page but since update (to make it customisable) none of the modules load. I just get the whirly-coggy-things (she says in her best techno-speak) and nothing loads. Please help!

17: Fixed the extra slash in there. Typo.

I'm looking into the other problems of things not loading correctly but I must say that I have all of the modules on my page and it's loading very quickly. Still searching though.

#20> I can tell you that my issues aren't browser specific. I use Firefox but I've just tried on IE and still the cogs of doom are whirring......

20> Seems the apparently new "Your Top Tags"/"Tag Watch" module. If I disable that one it loads perfectly.

>22 koffieyahoo:

How did you disable it? I see the drop-down box to change the number of "Top Tags", but no disable option....?

Good call, koffie; I did the same thing and my home page loaded for the first time since the customization update.

23> the new customization option, which is what this thread is all about :-) It's in the gray box near the top and still works.

I found the problem and I'm working on a fix. Should be quick.

Since none of the modules are currently loading (yes, I know this is a known problem), I tried turning them all off.

From the resulting http://www.librarything.com/ajax_home_section_save.php page, I got:
Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/html/ajax_home_section_save.php on line 183 Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/html/ajax_home_section_save.php on line 183 Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/html/ajax_home_section_save.php on line 183 Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/html/ajax_home_section_save.php on line 183 Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/html/ajax_home_section_save.php on line 183 Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/html/ajax_home_section_save.php on line 183 Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/html/ajax_home_section_save.php on line 183 Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/html/ajax_home_section_save.php on line 183 Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/html/ajax_home_section_save.php on line 196 Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/html/ajax_home_section_save.php on line 196 Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/html/ajax_home_section_save.php on line 196 Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/html/ajax_home_section_save.php on line 196 Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/html/ajax_home_section_save.php on line 196 Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/html/ajax_home_section_save.php on line 196 Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/html/ajax_home_section_save.php on line 196 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/html/ajax_home_section_save.php:183) in /var/www/html/ajax_home_section_save.php on line 211

It does seem to have done the job though, if I reload my home page. Behaves the same in Opera, Firefox and Internet Explorer 6. Turning everything back on is fine.

Internet Explorer 6 is actually even worse clicking the customize link does bring up the customization box, but along with it:
A Runtime Error has occurred.
Do you wish to Debug?

Line: 458
Error: Type mismatch

And after I've turned off all the modules, my home page brings up brings up:
A Runtime Error has occurred.
Do you wish to Debug?

Line 64
Error: 'ajaxlistA' is undefined.

I haven't experimented to see what happens if I only turn some off.

27: Thanks. Fixing that. Two liner and things should be good to go.

I'll have to check on the "Error: 'ajaxlistA' is undefined." one still.

Are people still having problems with the page not loading?

Yes, still having problems unless I remove the Top Tags module.

Just loaded immediately and without a glitch for me, Chris. FF3 but way stripped down (as above) and with no "Top Tags" or "Zeitgeist" or anything like that.

I second #30 fabtk. All OK until I enable 'Top Tags', then the cogs of doom are back.

Not working for me either.

Loads of undefined properties (and a few other issues) in the firebug console.

Ok. I'm going to release a new module that wasn't supposed to go out yet. As such....it isn't in production form yet.

I think you guys got a version of the home files that expected it to be there.

Anyway. Here goes...let me know if it fixes things for you.
You might want to edit your prefs again and save them.

ERK! Now it's all gone and all I get is a module called 'Tag Watch' and a blank page.....

andyl, can you make a screen capture of the errors? I'm not getting ANY errors here in FF so it's making it hard to debug. :)

Or, if you can just copy and paste them to me, it would help.

Try and edit your prefs again to save them. It should write over your old ones.

Nope, doesn't work, sorry. If I don't enable 'Top Tags', it all comes back though. Seems like the tag modules are the sticking point (she says, stating the bleeding obvious so please don't pick on me ;) ).....

hm. Can you enable tag watch and leave top tags disabled?
Does it work then?

Then I just get blank page with the 'Top Tags' module header and nowt else

still not loading

Still working on it.

Everything worked fine for me. It's fabulous!

I disabled both the Tag Watch module and the Top Tags module. Then I re-enabled them. Now, my home page loads normally, with a one-line "This module is currently under development. It will return ASAP." message under each of their headings. All the rest of the home page is as per my customisation, and is loading normally. FYI.

Can't customize.

I can select and deselect, but cannot drag and drop and the save function doesn't .

I tried to turn off top tags.. but they don't turn off.. otherwise, the dragging and dropping worked find.

Thank you CD!

What do you mean they don't turn off? Does the checkbox go out or you can't even deselect the item from the checkbox?

Or does it just not save your setting?

When I hit save nothing happens at all. The box just sits there still open.

What browser? And do you get any error messages at the bottom of the browser?

I still can't even see the save button because I can't get to the bottom of the light box. It's off screen so I can't save any changes I make. I'm using XP and IE7. Any chance on a fix for this?

~49

Browser is IE7 and no error messages at all

Yes there is. Unfortunately we have a lightbox library that we are using for everything and it needs to be modified. I'll see about getting to this today.

Thanks Dawg.

Big, big 'Oooooo!' of excitement, all Tag Features are there now and aren't they lovely!

Slight glitch in the 'Top Tags', in an 'All roads lead to Rome'-stylee, all tags lead to the page for my tag 'My Mooches' when I click on them from this module.

Thanks for sorting it all out. 'Home' just keeps getting better and better!

Ah. Will fix that linking problem. Somebody else edited the file after I did the prep work. Lines were crossed. :)

Tag Watch (now that it works) is absolutely awesome. Thanks all who worked on this. The whole home page is worth it just for this one feature alone.

The book links for tag watch are also broken. Seems like there's a "work/" missing in the URL:

e.g. http://www.librarything.com/book/12485194 should be http://www.librarything.com/work/book/12485194

Tag watch links are fixed. Same for tag links on top tags.

All working for me now - all customising now working and downloading in good time. Only user-downloaded covers (recently added) not showing correctly, but this is probably a bug with something else, maybe; not the new customisation??

It is lover-ly!!! So easy to move it all around and the new (got the hint) top tags and tag watch now loading correctly, speedily and perfectly!

ETA - spelling corrections... sigh.

Good to hear. Good to hear.
The custom cover thing is a bug that I could look into but the cover code is Tim's and John's so they could find the problem about 100 times faster than I. I'll let them look into it.

The problems I mentioned all the way back in #27 are now fine, except for bringing up the customization box in IE 6 (which I can sympathise with you not caring about!).

It still says...

Internet Explorer 6 is actually even worse clicking the customize link does bring up the customization box, but along with it:
A Runtime Error has occurred.
Do you wish to Debug?

Line: 458
Error: Type mismatch

And then seems to carry on perfectly happily if I say no. Since I never use IE anyway, if I can avoid it, I'm happy. :)

But thought it was still worth mentioning, in case you get anybody else yelling about it.

Thanks. Actually, I'm quite concerned about IE6. That's still our most used browser....unfortunately. Though the gap is shrinking very quickly.

I'll check out the runtime error and track it down.

Home page is working now although lhs seems a little slow for the first time - it does speed up on reloading.

Less errors on the console too. The all seem to be in either the minimised scriptaculous/effects.js or dragdrop-min.js or prototype.js

Mmmm... I love waking up to new features that someone else already spotted the bugs in!

(Thanks, Chris!)

Same problems here for IE6 - XP.

I can't take my selection in the first column low enough down on the screen to move anything to the bottom of that column.

I cannot see any place where I can "save" my new arrangement (if I could only make it!).

I'll be working on the IE6 lightbox issues later today/tonight.
They are a wider scope than just the Home page since we use the lightbox all around the site now (grrr).

>66 SqueakyChu:

I knew this was going to happen. This is useless in IE6/XP, just as the "add recommendations" is useless in IE6/XP. It seems anywhere on the site that this box is used is simply not functional with that browser/OS combination.

What is really frustrating is that this has been a known issue for quite some time, and I have to say that I am upset and disturbed that it was not solved before this was instituted. It's too basic.

THANKS! It's great to wake up and find that a new feature has arrived and the most egregious bugs have been fixed overnight. I can get everything I really want on the screen, no scrolling necessary. I'm fine with the left-right column division, but that's because the items I want on each side fit in almost exactly the same vertical space. If they didn't, I'd be frustrated too. (I'm still not wild about the gray box at the top of the left column, though it's easier to live with now.) As others have mentioned in the ridiculously long 2nd (maybe it's time to start a 3rd) thread about the Home page, the current organization (personal on the left, LT on the right) may not be for everyone. I can imagine three divisions: things you're stuck with (the gray box and announcements) at the top, and two customizable columns.

Thanks! I like the new tag watch. Everything seems to be working for me (FF 2, XP).

Just one suggestion: if the customization part of it is going to get developed further, it would be nice to be able to move things from the left to the right column, or vice versa. I've got a lot more in the left than the right that I'd like to see, so it would be nice to be able to rearrange the screen space to fit more in one screen.
(Edited: Oh, I see that suggestion has also been made on the homepage thread.)

My "edit" box is not useable as I can not access all part in it especially the "save" part, assuming there is such a part. I can only see the top bit of the the box.

I realize this is an already noted problem I am just wondering about how long it might be unfixed?

See 52 above and also his comments on the "Member pages! (part two)" thread: ConceptDawg said he'll look at it today.

conceptDawg: wow. Best thing since sliced bread. Like Christmas in July. WOW!

>67 conceptDawg:
cD, the lightboxes are fully visible now on IE5.5 (since last night, I think). Before that, IE 5.5 had the same problem as IE6, but now I can scroll and see the whole box. Don't know if this will help you in your troubleshooting, but I thought I'd mention it.

Would it be possible for Top Tags to sort vertically rather than horizontally? Or give the user a choice?

Just managed to get back onto the computer from this morning and everything is now just tickety-boo! And it's brilliant .... I love the Tag Watch too, that's just the icing on the cake. I snagged an ER book today as well ... my day just keeps on getting better!

Thanks again all of you guys for working so hard to make it work the way we want it too.

Everything seems to be working okay for me (knock on wood!), but I have to agree with message #68 here. I don't understand why features keep being implimented with this box thing, when it is a known bug that a very popular and much-used browser does NOT support that box? It means that so many users can't use this feature... it doesn't make sense.

And, just for curiosity's sake: I used to use IE6 through MSN, but right now I'm temporarily using AOL 9.0. Are there any cons to that, any known LT-related bugs using AOL?

Fantastic, THANK YOU. Just want to second (or third) the suggestion to allow moving modules between left & right columns.

On Safari 3.1.1 and OS X Leopard 10.5.3, everything works great.

> 71

OsideNative has provided a good workaround until this is fixed. Click F11, and then click to open the lightbox. It works! (At least it did for me on Windows XP/IE6.)

See Message 451 on this thread.

You have done an amazing job, and THANK YOU for the crazy straight hours of work. I sincerely hope you got some sleep today, and that your support team buys you a beer (or five) for what you took care of on your own with this feature launch.

And tag watch??? It's perfectly brilliant, and now I desperately need to win lotto, because my wish list is going to skyrocket!

no, I can't customize. I tried the F11 solution for the light box. I saw the whole box. I unchecked a number of selections and hit SAVE. And nothing happened. So I closed the box.

sad.

I must say, this is just incredibly cool! And the Tag Watch - it's wonderful.

Thanks to LT for doing such a bang-up job.

So I didn't want to see almost anything in the right-hand column, and as a result I have a lot of stuff in the left-hand column that I can't see without scrolling down while the right-hand column is pretty much empty. I'd love to put things like members with my books, top tags, etc. on the right, but it seems like only vertical arrangement, not horizontal arrangement, is permitted. Any chance of that changing?

Just being able to turn features on/off and reorder them is great, though. Thank you! :)

Why are books recently added as covers, and not as titles and authors? Having just entered a bunch of books that don't have covers available I see a line of my default cover. (Or did until I turned it off.)

# 84
Did you try editing to show list view?

84: You can change that. Just edit the preferences for that particular module and change it to "show list" instead of "show covers."

I'm happy that the page can be edited, but most of the sections just result in an "Error on Page" message for me. Anything I can do?

87: What browser?

Internet Explorer

Version? Very important number, that.

Oh, also, in IE6 you can just deselect the "Always show this warning" box and you can safely ignore those types of errors. The little box on the bottom left of the screen will still show the warning but you won't have to look at them all of the time. The page works fine in IE6 but does show the error. I'm going to work to get those out of there but they aren't a show stopper so they haven't been moved up the list yet.

The warnings in IE are mostly useful for programmers.

I'm looking...don't really know where to find that info.

Found it! It's IE7. Besides having the error message, the box where you make changes is cut off at the bottom. So there's no way to save any changes.

84, 86

OK. That worked. Now, why does Dragon's Fire show as Dragon/'s Fire?

I checked. It's entered right.

>93 Foxhunter: - To find your version of Internet Explorer, go to Help/About Internet Explorer. If you don't see the toolbar at the top that says "Help", hold down the ALT key and hit H - a menu should show up at the top of the screen - then go to About Internet Explorer.

94 > it is most likely a decoding error, apostrophes need to be escaped (coded) to be stored in the data base and I guess they missed reversing the titles.

By turning everything off, my home page now loads in less than three seconds. That's wonderful and I can't thank you enough!

cobb

Now the home page is customisable it has replaced the profile page as my go to place. One small bug: in the Talk section the 'ignore this topic' feature doesn't save when the page is refreshed so the unwanted topic returns like a bad penny ;-)

v

>98 vaneska: I posted the same bug here. No response yet, though.

Can someone respond to Maggie1944 (Post #81)?

Maggie1944, could you post what browser and browser version you are using? Based on the other posts I've seen, ConceptDawg needs that information to figure out what's going wrong.

I tried the F11 technique & it worked! Thanks! I love the page now.

I just now got a chance to test out the Tag Watch feature, and I LOVE it!! I honestly had no idea what it was until I messed around with it... And now I have 5 more books in my wishlist pile. lol It's like my own personal tag-based recommendations, without the strange algorithyms of recommendations. I love it!

I am on XP, and I think Internet Explorer 6.

If someone could remind me how to check to be sure I am remembering correctly I will appreciate that person greatly. (-:

maggie, click on "help" and then go down to "about internet explorer" then look where it says "Version"

yes, I am on Internet Explorer version 6.0

Thanks, sqdancer

To those in the know, could maggie1944's problem have something to do with javascript?

No problem.

I'm on Windows XP Professional with IE6 and the customizing feature works for me. I wonder if it could have something to do with your settings?? Hopefully someone more computer literate than I am will have a suggestion. ;)

yes, that sounds like a very good theory. I could try going in a setting everything at default and see whether that helps, but I don't think I have the energy right now. Maybe later.

Thanks for the idea.

FWIW when I go to my homepage using IE7 (I normally use FF), it says, down in the left of the status bar at the bottom, that there is an "error on page":

Line: 459
Char: 6
Error: Type mismatch.
Code:0
URL: {the url for my home page}

(PS. "Error on page" only comes up once I've clicked the pencil to edit a module.)

I cannot customize my page. Every time I click on the link I get an error message...

111: And that error message would be...?

>110 rsterling:

I am having that problem on work PC (and I won't be back on it till Monday) on XP Pro, IE7. When I click the pencil to edit any lightbox here (including Member Recommendations) nothing happens, but I get that error code in the yellow triangle at bottom left. May not be exact same code, but looked like that. I will check Monday. You are the only other person I have seen mention it.

At a quick skim of the above messages, I don't think this has been mentioned, but apologies if I missed it.

It's not a bug, but is something I find annoying. I am interested in a lot of the features now in the first column, and very few now in the second column. So, now that I've customized my modules, I have a LOT of scrolling to do in the left-hand column, and all that lovely open space in the right-hand column. I know there is a conceptual difference between the columns (mine vs. site-wide) but, in the interest of making some of us LTers (well, me, anyway) really happy, couldn't we move modules from one column to the other?

>113 OsideNative:, re: 110:

Now it works. Go figure. :-)

114> I thought this too, but there is more than just the social difference between the columns. The left column is also twice as wide as the right column so it may be a problem to swap modules from one side to the other.

#116, I see what you mean, but this should be a solvable problem.

Yes, the idea was that the right column would hold more concise information too (how that was carried out is debatable. heheh). There are a couple of columns that wouldn't fit so neatly in the smaller confines of the right side (tagwatch and local, specifically). We could make the right side bigger and just make it a free-for-all but something about that doesn't sound "right." But then again, my right is another person's insanely wrong.

OsideNative, is customization working for you now? I made some changes but haven't worked on finding the error that IE is having (that's next). But if it is working for you then I at least have that knowledge.

#118,conceptDawg, I see what you mean, but if you take a look at my home page you will see what my problem is. If there's some way to let me move even some modules from left to right, it would be a big help. For example, I could see "members with your books," "Recent Recommendations," "Top Tags," and "My Zeitgeist" being reconfigured, either to be narrower and longer or to appear in fewer columns. Of course, I am NOT a computer programmer, so this comes from an editorial, not a coding, perspective. I must add that I am always very appreciative of (and often amazed by) the responsiveness of all the LT staff. Thank you.

>119 conceptDawg:
Chris, the light boxes are all working for me now in IE6 without having to use F11. They are also opening for me now in IE7. All is well. Thank you so much!

Despite all the joy above, I still can not customize my home page. And it is way too big for me to use or enjoy, I wish, if I can not cusomize it, to be able to open on profile rather than home. Is that possible?

Why can you not customize it? What is the symptom of your disaster?Sorry to dredge up old wounds. I do see that you are on XP with IE(6?).

In message 81, she said she was able to see the whole box, but when she clicked save, nothing happened.

Are you getting any error messages? Can you verify that you are using IE6?

Today, just now, I went to Profile; opened Edit Secion, deselected From the Blogs, Hit SAVE, Closed the box. ***NO CHANGE888

Today, just now, I went to Profile; opened Edit Secion, deselected From the Blogs, Hit SAVE, Closed the box. ***NO CHANGE***

SO, I signed out of LT; signed back in

***NO CHANGE***

and no error messages that I saw

I am pretty sure I am on IE6, I have resisted upgrading to 7 because when I tried it once, all hell broke loose.

But if you want me to verify it, I'll need to be told how to do that.

Thank you for the attention and help.

To find your version click on the Help menu and on About Internet Explorer on the pull-down menu.

>129 jjwilson61: She did this in post 106, confirming that she is using IE 6.0.

I've just checked, using IE 6, and it does work for me. But!

When I open the customize window, I see "cancel/close" in the top right corner, and the two columns representing the available panel items in the middle of the window. I don't see the Save button, as it's below the bottom edge of the window. If I scroll down, then it's fine. And the despite the use of the word "close" in the top right link, it really does mean cancel!

I'd suggest moving the save button up to the top left corner.

Top check the version of IE, go to the Help menu, and select About. I get a new window which tells me (immediately below the IE logo): Version: 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254.

The important bit is that leading "6" :)

I have also just checked using IE6 on XP sp2, and it works for me. This is not to say, maggie1944, that you aren't experiencing this problem.

Also, maggie1944, when you say you "went to Profile", do you mean that you were on the Profile tab, or were you on the new Home tab? When you went to "Edit Section", did you do so by clicking the "customize this page" link that lies between your username and a yellow "New!" box on the left-hand side of the page? I'm not asking because I think you're doing something wrong, but just to make sure that everyone knows exactly what you're saying is happening.

Who knew that closing a window would cancel it? I am off to try again. This time after I hit save I am leaving to go have a cup of coffee. Maybe a gremlin will come along and close the window for me, without cancel.

ok, I went back, performed the deselection and hit save and went into the living room, turned on the TV, watched the weather man give his report and then the traffic reporter came on. Bored, so I came back here. I clicked talk and here I am. The little box below which illustrates progress in loading something is less than half filled with little green bars. So I think that means my deselection choice is still being born. Very slow labor.

Going back to TV.

Nope. No workie! posting in talk evidently canceled it. The item deselected (from the blogs) is still on my home page.

Really, I am going to go work on my budget while watching the TV.

Hitting the save button at the bottom of the page (not the cancel/close link at the top) should also close the page. It doesn't for you?

No, after I hit the SAVE the window remains open.

At any point, do you have a little yellow symbol (caution symbol: exclamation point in a yellow triangle) at the bottom left of Internet Explorer, in the status bar? (To make sure the status bar is showing, go to "View" and then make sure the status bar is checked.") If you do have this symbol, if you click on it, what is the error message that comes up?

I'm very much a non-specialist here, but I'm wondering whether it has something to do with either a javascript coding error, or some setting in your browser that might be blocking scripts.

RE Javascript, when I try my homepage in IE7, although customizing works, I'm still seeing an error message in the lower left. When I click it, it says:

Line: 471
Char: 6
Error: Type mismatch.
Code:0

(So, it's the same error that I and others reported earlier, but on a different line.)

Nope. No error messages, or yellow symbols suggesting error messages...

darn.

So, might be something "blocking" huh?

Maybe I'll ask a nearby neighbor who claims expertise to come look at the settings.

Too tired to try it myself right now.

Does anyone know if it would work for Maggie if she went to another computer, or allowed someone else to do it for her signing on as her from another computer, if the changes she's longing to make would stay stuck ever after?

I do sympathize, Maggie, because I had a similar problem when the page came out initially. It was so huge I couldn't work with it on my very slow dial-up connection. That made the forced change-over to the new HP a real pain.

I know the changes I made seem to stay stuck from one computer to another, so perhaps that would help. I hope you get it resolved. BTW, encouraged by others here I switched to Firefox (free to download, and though very lengthy for me because of speed, it did finally get finished). Firefox has the additional benefit of allowing you to disallow images which lightens the load even more on overloaded pages like the new HP.

cobb

Well, fancy that...I just happen to be getting a new lap top sometime later in July. Once that is set up I certainly can try to do the edits from the lap top and if I want to change them I can go back to my lap top. Just what every single, retired school teacher on a fixed income needs: two computers! or and 2 dogs and ...

well, enough said. It is not so serious a inconvenience that I can not wait to fix it later. Luckily, I use Comcast cable and my loading time is usually pretty good. Thank you all very much for giving it a good college try.

I'll report in later - a couple of weeks or so.