In the coming months, we will be updating a number of aspects of AgingCare.com in order to improve the usability of the site for you, our members. The two most significant pending changes are a new navigation bar along the top of the site and an improved layout for our articles. These will be applied towards the end of July/beginning of August.
It will take a bit of getting used to, but it is our hope that this simplified navigation will help members and newcomers alike locate the information they are looking for. All of our articles, questions, answers, discussions, etc. are still live and intact, but they will be organized a bit differently moving forward.
For your reference, we have provided a quick guide to using the new navigation below. (NOTE: These details may not make complete sense until we publish the updates and you see them.)
-The Caregiver Forum (Support Groups and Discussions) can be found under “Ask a Question.”
-You can find information on all types of Senior Living under “Find Care.”
-To access content that was previously filed under Caregiver Support (Caregiver Burnout, Emotional Wellbeing, Tough Issues, etc.), click on “Caregiving.”
-Content that was previously filed under Elder Care (Daily Care, Health Conditions, End of Life and Hospice, etc.) can be found under “Healthy Aging.”
-The Money and Legal Section is located in a drop-down menu that appears when you click on the three lines next to our logo on the far left of the blue navigation bar.
-The search box can also be located in the drop-down menu.
To ensure you are logged into your account, look for your avatar in the top right of the navigation bar. (If you are not logged in, you will see the “LOGIN” link in that spot instead.) Once you are logged in, you can access your account information, news feed and public profile by either clicking on your avatar or using any of the “Membership” links in the drop-down menu described above. You can log out by using the link in the drop-down as well.
Improvements to our articles include larger, easier-to-read text, clearer formatting, and an accessible “share bar.”
As always, when it comes to upgrading or trying something new, there are bound to be a few kinks that will pop up and need to be ironed out. We sincerely appreciate your patience while we work through this process to make AgingCare as user-friendly and informative as possible. The entire AgingCare team has been working hard on these changes, and we are excited to finally share them with you!
We appreciate your feedback and will be actively monitoring this thread. If you have any questions or concerns about these updates, please feel free to post them below. Thank you!
-AgingCareEditor
Now with the width of the screen contracted, I can block out both the ad above the blue menu bar as well as the ads to the right of the text portion.
Great! That annoying bar sliding up and down over the text was giving me eye strain.
There is a lot of white space on the far right and on the far left.... oh I just now found a way to remove the icons on the far left, the one that shows the F and the bird, and whatever that white cross thingee. I never use those, and found the "hide" to get rid of it :)
One thing I don't like is people who won't provide even the most basic background info about themselves, I can understand if you are only passing through but some people hang around for quite a while and unless you have been following them it can be hard to know where they are coming from.
Better with the iPad but I needed to use my Laptop at work to load a jpg avatar
It wouldn't load it from the iPad
However, I have limited even attempting to help new posters, because, their questions feel disingenuous, somehow. Perhaps too many trolls.
As I'm typing right now, the only worthwhile portion is the message response box. All the rest is just more advertisements.
This is now not worth the effort of even reading the posts, let alone bothering to respond. If the people responsible for this think it's going to increase revenue, they might want to rethink this intrusiveness. It's going to make it harder to post, and they want the posts for their magazine.
So far from these so-called "exciting" updates, we still don't have a larger response box, we don't have edit or delete capacity, but guess what - the ads are bigger! Wow!
I HATE sites that squeeze the things you actually want to see off to the bottom of the page, 3/4 ads and useless crap and 1/4 what you came there for, must be really fun on a phone.
CWillie, as to caching, I don't know about that specifically but I'm sure that everything that's posted here is backed up daily on their servers, which likely means it's there forever. I rather doubt also that anyone would go through the servers and delete the messages that are archived, so the junk/spam ones are probably there as well.
The funny thing is that when I go back to the forum it seems too small and I think I should be enlarging the font... no, any larger and everything starts to fall off the side of the page. LOL
And how I wish the Articles font was smaller. It's become so hard to read that I don't go in there on a regular basis.
The log out and non uniformity of font size between the forums and the rest of the site are a continuing frustration for all of us... I hope someone is still trying to resolve these issues??
Well, how about if I go to my Profile? I went to Edit Profile, it's not there.
What if I click on my icon on the top right? Oh! Guess what everyone?! I just found a shortcut to my message board! All this time, I've been hitting the 3 horizontal lines on the top left, scroll down to my Wall. Ha! Well... I still need to log out. If All Else Fails, I will just have to Clear my History. sigh....