The Stovebolt Site Forums The Back Office IT Short Bus Drop downs not working on main Stovebolt.com page in safari browser

I noticed Every time I go to stovebolt.com

My iPhone or iPad browser when I click on around the site I can’t go anywhere else.
New people trying to find this site or just take a look around might be something the webmaster should probably look into.

Or am I the only iPhone iPad user with this problem?

If I go to the forum directly or any other page within the site everything work fine

It is just the main www.stovebolt.com first page with the issue

Works fine on my iPad.

How about iPhone. There is a slight difference in safari

My iPad is a older model. And not well updated but iPhone is on latest iOS

Do you mind that I put this in the IT Shortbus? I think it'll get more response there.

Peggy M

works for me

Works on my iphone X.

Are you signed in with your password???

I see the same issue running firefox on android. The drop down menu is rendering behind the text on the page and is un-clickable.

Here is a screenshot of the issue. If I switch to desktop mode, the problem goes away.

ok 4 differing Iphones. 12 / 11 / xr and and 8
All have same result.

i go to stovebolt.com nothing after it not ubbthreads nothing.
I get this page.

I click on "around the site"
and get the second shot.
none of those drop downs take me anywhere.

ok so you do see the same thing.

My concern is most people will NOT change desktop mode. They will think its a broken page and move on.

I would contact who does the web pages and see if they have a fix.

Gosh. Hope someone addresses this issue. I use a real desktop so the Home page works for me.

I remember when this Beta test design was first being designed. I think part of the news features was to make it presentable in different platforms (cell phone, iPad, Notebook, etc.). Main thing (I recall) was to use percentages rather than pixels.

Thanks for giving the feedback. Someone with more intel on this should chime in.

Peggy M

That was me -- I'm responsible for all of that. Part of my attempt to redesign the site to make it more adaptive to smaller devices than laptops and desktops. I am hoping to get back to it sometime. In the meantime, the best I can tell you is to just view the site on a laptop or desk top machine while I figure out the adaptive functions in Adobe Muse.

FWIW, the site looks like crap and is hard to use on *my* phone, too -- which is why I hardly use my phone to use this site.

Bottom line -- The site is optimized for use on a real computer. When I feel like trying again, I will ... um ... try again.

No promises.

FWIW John, I use a phone for 80%+ of my browsing here and it works great other than that landing page. I appreciate the effort you put in and by far the greatest part of it was successful.

Thanks. It was a lot of effort and when it didn't work ... I've just not been motivated to get back to it yet for another try. I will ...

Ok check this out. If on my phone and I holding it portrait style
The around site when clicked displays up and down. Nothing.

When I turn my phone landscape. The around the site spreads out left and right and if I click they all work and it takes me to the right pages.

Flip it back up and down stops working. Go back to left and right works again.

Found it by accident.