A new recipe site has launched! It’s called Fly Recipes [dot] com (www.flyrecipes.com)
Yeah, it’s my personal site and this is a shamless self promotion, but I’m not selling anything or otherwise trying to trick anyone. I just love fly tying and I think I’ve put together a pretty cool site starting out with over 800 recipes with another 1,250 cataloged and to be online by end of summer. I’ve built a filtering system using over 100 tags to help you find you pattern quickly.
Come look around, tie a fly, upload a fly, tell me what you think.
The recipe and forum sections of the site are fully functional. I have had a few folks since I’ve launched tell me they have had some trouble with the links. Generally the problem has been that they need to enable JavaScript within their browser (and then clear their cache) or their employeer is stopping JavaScript browser behavior in the internet access. I checked your entry to the site in the server log files and everyhing else looks good.
Please check these things and let me know how it works for you.
How do I enable JavaScript?
Its true I’m accessing your site from work, so that may be the problem. I can see some of the recipes, and some links are working, so that’s good.
Overnight I tried to promote a utility that would make the URLS for each page “search engine friendly” and that screwed up both the registration and sign in capabilities of the site as well as the overall response speed.
My apologies, I have returned everything to the way it was working yesterday. You might do a quick clearing of your browser cache before you log in again.
@Normand - Regarding the originators. If you have something specific I would be glad to research it. It becomes a bit delicate unless someone is claiming themselves to be an originator. I ran into an issue last week where the person who submitted a couple flies had one originator and a user, like yourself, told me it was someone different. I contacted both of the originator’s and neither one claimed to be the originator, just a couple guys how popularized the fly in their part of the country.
Thanks for visiting. Sorry again for your trouble.
Pages still load way too slow. I probably won’t have the patience to use the site unless the loading speed improves.
Tried to view the site, again today. Took 4 minutes to load the home page, then I couldn’t sign in, and none of the links work. I’m afraid the site is just too buggy for me. If you ever get these problems addressed, let me know, and I’ll try it again.
I am truly sorry that you are having these difficulties.
The site is slow right now as I grossly under estimated the hits it would receive and the old server here in my tying room just can’t keep up. I am currently in discussions with a couple of web hosting companies to see which can be of most benefit to me and the user community. I hope to have something changed this weekend.
The inability to log in and use the links is an indication of something else. Most users that have had that issue have been able to overcome it by adjusting their javascript settings and clearing their cache. I do know that the internal links are all functional as the site is getting about 5,000 page views per day.
I will send you a note once I have the hosting changed to see if your speed increases.
You shouldn’t have to clear your cache or do anything other than enable javascript for the site to work. I have several websites of my own, and access several dozen others every day without trouble. The problem is most likely your server, or website designer.
One of my webpages is at http://natural.path.tripod.com/. It has multiple pages, and many features. Check it out and see how fast everything loads, and how good all the links and features work. And this is a free hosting site. A pay one should work even better.
Thanks for visiting and providing me feedback. I really appreciate it.
I working on the slow part. As I mentioned in an earlier post. My little server here in my tying room is grossly under-sized for the hits to the database that it has been receiving. I never imagined the traffic that the site is getting. I working on getting it out to a real host that can handle this load of DB traffic. I’m discovering that the $9.99/mo folks are not going to do it either so I’m convincing my wife why I need to actually ‘budget’ for a hosting service…wish me luck!
