Issues Needing Fixing
(Earth Clinic)
12/23/2021
Thank you so much, Hannah. Our programmer fixed it and asked if you would please refresh the url. Should work now!
Issues Needing Fixing
(Earth Clinic)
06/07/2021
Hi Sabita,
Thanks for your input. They are appreciated!
Can you please provide a few more details?
1. You are referring to our mobile phone design, correct? It has a different layout than desktop computers.
2. On mobile, are you referring to the Recent Posts page or the Ailments index section, which lists medical conditions by letter?
Please let us know what you'd like to see to make it more user-friendly and I'll discuss with our programmer. Thank you!
P.S. If anyone else has design requests or finds anything difficult to navigate, please chime in.
(Earth Clinic)
06/07/2021
Mobile users:
If you are mobile and want to see the desktop version, scroll down the menu and click on View Full Version. That will also show you the full posts on the recent posts page rather than just the titles.
(Orange City, FL)
06/07/2021
Thank you Deirdre!
Issues Needing Fixing
EC: Hi Diane and anyone else experiencing this issue,
So sorry about this.
We are working to fix this issue and contacted Google a couple of days ago about it as well since none of our current fixes are working. It is only an issue for Safari browser users on desktop computers. If you have another browser on your computer like Firefox, try that one... you won't have an issue. We'll keep working on it until it gets figured out.
Apologies again!
04/01/2021
Worked on this the past two days with the programmer and we're very happy to report the issue is finally fixed! What a relief! That one was tricky!
Issues Needing Fixing
(Earth Clinic)
11/19/2020
Hi Susan,
Thank you for the feedback. We have received a bunch of emails about this issue today.
Google recently rolled out vignette ads for desktop users and it appears you can't close some of their ads. This is happening to many websites, not just EC, so we need to alert them to the issue.
Also, we have a separate folder for mobile users. It's great except that things get complicated when we're trying to send people to a particular post instead of just an article.
We will look into both issues. In the meantime, if anyone else is having issues with those google ads, please add a reply to this email
We've had Google ads on the site since 2002, by the way. We were one of Google's first ad publishers if you can believe it!
Those ads have helped pay for the cost of the site, writers, moderators and programmers over the years.
(Australia)
11/19/2020
Issues Needing Fixing
https://www.earthclinic.com/remedies.html?ltr=K#ailments
EC: Thank you! It's the top search on every page at the moment, so we'll get it fixed asap.
(Not Canada)
10/23/2020
On the Latest Posts page the Editor's Choice icon (Lugol's Iodine for Covid-19 Fri, 23 Oct 20 10:07:26 -0700)
is layered above the menu. It floats on top when you scroll through the menu and covers the links.
Also if you click that post's link it takes you to the post, but opening and closing the menu brings you to the top of the page instead of back to the post (which is at the bottom of the page).
EarthClinic is one of the best looking sites on the Net. That logo is *perfect* :) The blue and green combined with the black and white. The sans serif, no caps... The little white dude with the arrow. Whoever designed that it is *sweet*! The little leaves embracing the Earth....
EC: Thank you so much. We appreciate the alerts!
Yes, noticed that about the Editor's Choice floating at the top today too. It's on his "to do" list.
We've had that exact same logo since 2008, by the way! The font changed 2 years ago, but nothing else.
Issues Neeing Fixing
EC: Thank you for letting us know. There are a few people who send in posts using small fonts and we don't always catch it in the approval process. Fixed the 3 recent small font posts from Cheryl in NJ.
Hi Deirdre,
I have seen this small font occur on some of my posts and I don't think it is caused by me changing my font size, because when the reply window opens, all of the print that is already there is smaller than usual and everything I type goes in smaller also. It only happens once in awhile and usually gets corrected in time.
Art
(EC)
07/10/2023
Thanks, Art. Our fabulous programmer just added something to catch and flag a small font on a post. Hopefully, that will fix the issue in future posts. A smaller font typically happens if someone copies and pastes a sentence from another website or document. If you don't use Control SHIFT Paste, it will copy the code from the other source, sometimes causing an issue on the Earth Clinic side.
Latest Posts, Latest Answers
As you may have noticed, pages on Earth Clinic can take a very long time to load. Today we figured out, after the site was running particularly slowly, that we have too many databases pointing at the Recent Posts page, which is slowing the entire site down (answers.earthclinic.com and ted.earthclinic.com). To fix this, our fabulous programmer has separated all the Latest Posts sections.
Please make sure to click on Recent Answers because that's where all the new Q&A posts will be. We have 16 new replies from our newsletter just in the past couple of hours in that new section instead of in the Latest Posts section. Sorry that you have to click on another section to read posts, but now the site loads much faster!
You can find the links on the far left corner for desktop computer users under "Recent Activity".
https://www.earthclinic.com/latest_posts_answers.html
New Articles
EC: https://www.earthclinic.com/supplements/how-to-increase-melatonin-naturally.html
Adding it to the home page of Earth Clinic now too.
New Earth Clinic Logos
★★★★★
Art
EC: Thank you so much, Art! Glad you like them!
(New Hope, PA)
05/05/2021
(Las Vegas, NV)
05/05/2021
★★★★★
New Habitat Site
★★★★★
Earth Clinic is starting a new environmental site called HABITAT by Earth Clinic, which we are very excited about and think you will be too. Please help us choose a winning logo by marking a 5 star by any logo that you LOVE. This logo contest ends tomorrow, so you can check new designs later in the day. Thank you so much!
New Merchandise
★★★★★
Available now on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0964R7LG3
Stay tuned.. more merch to come!
New Updates
★★★★★
The new clean logo area before you click on the 3 blue bars on the left.
The menu that pops up after you click on that button.
The drop down menu that appears when you clear on the person icon:
As always, we would love to get your feedback after we go live!
(Not Canada)
10/06/2020
Sexy new header, but the menu is fabulously invisible ;)
EC: Did you view on a desktop computer? Mobile devices show a different menu that we haven't updated.
So far, comments have been favorable from Facebook posters re the new dropdown navigation menu.
(Not Canada)
10/07/2020
(Florida)
10/08/2020
Dear Earth Clinic Staff:
Thank you for administering the earthclinic.com website. Regarding the new menu, when using a laptop computer, the menu background and menu text are invisible. When I then press the key combination Command-A (the Mac equivalent of Control-A on a Windows computer) to select all content on the webpage, I can see some hyperlinks in the form of white text. That selected white text is scattered amongst the rest of the content of the webpage, making the white text difficult to read.
It is possible that there might be other people using older computers with older Web browsers that cannot render menus such as the new one at earthclinic.com.
Also, the webpages of some websites have layouts such that large portions of the tops and bottoms of the webpages are taken up by horizontal bands of content. Those such webpages appear to be suited for large monitors with large screen resolutions. For the people who aren't in a position to acquire such monitors, using smaller monitors with lower screen resolutions results in very little space in the middle of the screen for viewing the content of the webpages.
Thank you for asking for feedback. Your consideration is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
J.
Numbers 21:9
John 3:14–16
EC: Hello, J.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write us. We will send your comments to the programmer and see what can be done to fix the issues for older browsers.
To be clear, you are opening up the menu by clicking on the 3 blue bars at the top of the page on the left? Those 3 bars are a standard menu icon these days to accommodate different screen sizes.
We have tested the site on all browsers with using a laptop computer with a 14 inch screen and the menu displays perfectly when it is opened up. Earth Clinic (and most sites that are updated regularly) works best when the browser is up to date with javascript enabled.
Thanks again. We will be in touch!
(Not Canada)
10/08/2020
(Florida)
10/09/2020
You're welcome, EC.
The menu background and menu text are now visible when I use the same laptop and the same Web browser that I was using previously. I apologize for twice posting this additional feedback; I discovered your reply after having filled in the contact form a little while before. On both occasions of trying to see the menu, I had been clicking the menu icon shaped like three blue bars.
Thank you for taking care of that matter. In case the programmer can benefit from additional information about my Web-browser settings, I have had JavaScript enabled on both occasions that I tested the menu. Also, I have had a browser add-on called NoScript enabled on both occasions.
Regarding the section of the Earth Clinic website dedicated to Ted from Bangkok's observations, might a link to ted.earthclinic.com be provided in the menu?
Thank you again!
Sincerely,
J.
Numbers 21:9
John 3:14–16
EC: So glad it is working for you now! The programmer made some changes last night. Thank you for the update!
Yes, thank you for the reminder..Ted's archive has been added to the menu.
(Florida)
10/12/2020
Thank you, EC, and you're welcome.
Regarding the link to Ted's archive, it seems that three w's and a dot became added to the front of ted.earthclinic.com, resulting in a broken link.
EC: Thank you so much, once again, J!
Fixed!!
(Florida)
10/13/2020
(Florida)
10/14/2020
You're welcome, and the link on the mobile menu now works on my mobile phone. Thank you for taking care of all of those menu matters and for having and managing the website! I have found content therein to be a blessing on many occasions!
Sincerely,
J.
Numbers 21:9
John 3:14–16
(Not Canada)
10/09/2020
Works great here, too. The "Pets" menu can be moved up a line, the ad at the bottom covers the text. There is plenty of room between menu options making clicking the right item easy. You could eliminate the extra space between the menu headers and preceeding text, even. It all looks very clean and tight. Really nice.
EC: Thank you for the feedback! Glad it's working now.
(Spain)
10/22/2020
I love your site. it was so easy to use, but now you changed the format and it is so difficult to find the information needed... Hope you pay attention to this the next time you make changes! Have a nice day!!!
EC: Hello, thank you for the feedback. The programmer made changes to the desktop design yesterday, so hopefully it will be easier to find menu AND the 2 most popular categories, ailments and remedies.
We need to stay current and update the design from time to time, sorry!
Newsletters
★★★★★
Notifications
★★★★★
With this update, you can now quickly and easily see any replies to your posts on the website. This means no more worrying about missing notifications via email. You'll see a number displayed next to the icon for any new replies.
Make sure to check out this new feature by clicking on the bell!
Posting on Earth Clinic
EC: Hi Lauren,
When you login into your account, you'll find 2 sections with your posts and links to all your posts.. one is Feedback and the other is Q&A. Otherwise, yes, impossible to find if you don't have an account set up.
