Giotto's Lodge Website: Proposals, Ideas, Problems

[Slylock]

Thanks Giotto,

It's probably some setting I have messed up on my Firefox! thanks a million for checking it out!

Slylock

[Giotto]

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I was looking thru the your site and some of the .PHP tried to download themselves instead of opening. At first the problem only happened on the MENU tabs for your restaurants. Then it happened for a photo gallery (The beer garden I believe). This issue may just be mine, I am using Firefox 3.0.5 for Linux.
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Slylock,

Never heard about that problem. I just checked it out - works normal for me (that what works - works normal).


Giotto

[Slylock]

Hi Giotto,

I was looking thru the your site and some of the .PHP tried to download themselves instead of opening. At first the problem only happened on the MENU tabs for your restaurants. Then it happened for a photo gallery (The beer garden I believe). This issue may just be mine, I am using Firefox 3.0.5 for Linux.

Cheers!

[Goodman666]

Hi Giotto,

Checked your website from Germany with DSL.

I would say its quick as quick ìt should be

Regards,

Goodman666

[SexWithSmile]

greetings dr g.

i was thinking about it for a long time, what would be suuupppeeerrr cool, is to have the directions from the airport to the lodge on a small jpg or pdf file in thai. so we simply print it, and give it to the taxi driver.

i know it is theoretically easy: sukhumvit, soi 33. but from the airport many drivers claim to be lost. also, as traffic can be mad, it is always good to show the directions through the uncluttered roads, instead of being stuck for 30 minutes on sukhumvit. well, we are giving much work to dr g. so let us say kudo, cheers, and waiting for the brand new site with live webcams inside the rooms.

[Taipei Traveller]

Hi Giotto

The link to Special Events is not working correctly, instead of loading the page it is asking me what i want to do with the events.php file, this is definitely a coding issue.

Will pop in some time over the next few weeks as will be spending some time in BKK over the next couple of months.

[Flyhere]

hi giotto,

i am browsing livingstone's website from california here, trying to get a feel for things there (like what kind of food you offer and how much is a dinner dish). a few observations if i may:

- the site is super slow and the pages take way too long to load. could be the pages with the photos, and could also be the thai internet or the host, but people would tend to give up on a slow site, so it's not a good thing. i would look at ways to speed things up. if it's a thailand problem, an option would be to host it outside the country.

- another option is to separate the text pages and the photos pages, and setup a dynamic photo gallery where you can add photos without rebuilding the pages. you may already have this, although i got the impression that your pages are static.

- the restaurant menus are down. i read a few posts back that it's being changed over, but it does not look professional when a business has broken links. and it shouldn't take that long to change things over or fix broken links, more than 2-3 days is way too long. i would try to fix this asap.

- the pages all have different looks and color schemes. did you do this on purpose?

please note that i am not a professional web designer or webmaster, although i run a couple of non-business websites of my own. these are merely friendly observations for what they are worth, i just think that a more speedy website would keep the reader's interest a bit more. and as long as your business makes money and the reservation system works, that's what counts the most.

cheers
fly

ps. i have a few other suggestions, i'll mention them over a beer when i get there.

[Bob Down]

Bob Down,

We hear about problems that the website is slow in some parts of the world - whenever and wherever I check it here in Thailand (and Singapore, Hongkong, even Germany) it is ok.

Reg. the booking page - we get every day several bookings / request via that system, it is up and running. Please try and let me know the outcome.

The website: http://www.livingstones.co.th

You can use also the E-Mail info@livingstones.co.th for reservation requests.

Giotto

No problem, if I have any trouble when I decide to book I will let you know. I am still to decide when I will be back in BKK.

[Petemcc]

Petemcc,

To deactivate the menus was one of the last activities of our [ex-]website design company. They tried to implement a database functionality to enable us to enter our menu by our own (because it changes sometimes), and that was it .

We are working with a different company now, and there will be a complete new website soon.


Giotto

Thanks
Pete

[Giotto]

G
Have you checked everything?
Honestly, the menu for the restaurants is down. You can get the headings, but no details. When you click on, for example main courses from the steakhouse, you get a blank page.

Petemcc,

To deactivate the menus was one of the last activities of our [ex-]website design company. They tried to implement a database functionality to enable us to enter our menu by our own (because it changes sometimes), and that was it .

We are working with a different company now, and there will be a complete new website soon.


Giotto

[Kenya69]

Mr G.,

If it is any help it is the same here in Canada as Petemcc and BD say. Site is real real slow and not all pages come up.

[Petemcc]

G
Have you checked everything?
Honestly, the menu for the restaurants is down. You can get the headings, but no details. When you click on, for example main courses from the steakhouse, you get a blank page.

[Giotto]

Hi Giotto,

I am looking to be back in BKK around Sept./Oct. and I am looking for somewhere new to stay. I tried to book a room with LL May last year, but did not get a reply so I went back to Soi 4. Has there been a problem with bookings and is there a problem now.

Secondly I was looking through the website and had trouble with one of your links, I went to the sports lounge and clicked on "our drinks" but no page came up.

Bob Down,

We hear about problems that the website is slow in some parts of the world - whenever and wherever I check it here in Thailand (and Singapore, Hongkong, even Germany) it is ok.

Reg. the booking page - we get every day several bookings / request via that system, it is up and running. Please try and let me know the outcome.

The website: http://www.livingstones.co.th

You can use also the E-Mail info@livingstones.co.th for reservation requests.

Giotto

[Bob Down]

Hi Giotto,

I am looking to be back in BKK around Sept./Oct. and I am looking for somewhere new to stay. I tried to book a room with LL May last year, but did not get a reply so I went back to Soi 4. Has there been a problem with bookings and is there a problem now.

Secondly I was looking through the website and had trouble with one of your links, I went to the sports lounge and clicked on "our drinks" but no page came up.

[Taipei Traveller]

damned, i don't know what to do any more. my isp told me to speed up the website, to cache the pictures...

very very slow, took about 4 minutes to load the home page fully, it is the pictures that are causing the issue as others have mentioned. based in taiwan.

giotto, took some time today to look at the coding of your website, and i don't see any issues there, my take on this is that the problem lies with whoever is hosting the website, maybe they have to many websites on the one server or have to much traffic for the websites they are hosting when compared to the internet line that they are using.

if you can get a decent internet connection yourself, then it might be worth doing the hosting yourself as the cost for setting up a pc is pretty small.