redone MBTA website

[xxv.livejournal.com]

For those who didn't get the email, the MBTA has completely redone their website. Despite some funky looking squished graphics on my laptop, I'd consider it a big improvement. I greatly enjoy the interactive maps, complete with bus routes and planned trips shown on the map. Check it out!

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[amethystmoon.livejournal.com]

I cleared my cache, and I'm still getting the old look and feel...

[myselftheliar.livejournal.com]

Yeah it looks the same old same old for me.

dont see it squished

[relatta.livejournal.com]

Mine doesnt look squished. Is your font TEXT set to Medium or normal?

[elements.livejournal.com]

Mine didn't seem squished, except for the feedback box, where I went to tell them how much I like the new site and those excellent maps - and where, oddly, they only have options for negative feedback! So my negative feedback in the box was only about the box itself, and was primarily squeeful praise. Thanks for posting about this!

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm actually impressed. At something the MBTA had done! (And amused that on the Service Alerts section, they are showing two escalator alerts. Neither at Davis, though; how odd.)

[hahathor.livejournal.com]

Wow, spiffy!

Re: dont see it squished

[xxv.livejournal.com]

My font is intentionally 6pt or so. That's due to my screen being very high-res and me being able to read text that small. Unfortunately, this setup causes all sorts of problems on websites (people who misguidedly use 12pt font, for example), but this is a new one to me.

[xxv.livejournal.com]

It's probably at a new IP address and the DNS change hasn't propogated to you yet. Try again in a few hours from when you tried last.

[xxv.livejournal.com]

Maybe they actually finished fixing it? Nah.

[amethystmoon.livejournal.com]

ooh, I like the rollover menus that mimic a T map!

[xxv.livejournal.com]

For those who didn't notice, it was redesigned by RDVO Inc. (http://rdvo.com/) — a Davis Square company over on Holland St. Good work, guys!

[ron_newman]

If I try to use the commerce section, the browsers all complain about invalid certificates and ask if I should trust them anyway. I always say yes, because I don't understand what any of that means.

Wow, the site is gorgeous.

[shana-lyons.livejournal.com]

I'd say "Who knew the MBTA had this in them?" but I think they actually won an award a ways back for their old site. As far as public transit sites around the country went, it was really good. This site is totally taking it to another level though. The site is gorgeous and well designed.

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

I've been experimenting with the trip planner for a while, and I like it; the rest of the site looks spiffy, but it takes longer to drill down to "service interruptions"

The Glober reports that the T will be getting GPS on some buses soon so you might be able to see where the buses are on a map in real time. Seattle's pubtrans website had that this summer and it was very cool.

[xxv.livejournal.com]

Huh. That's not very slick at all.

Certificates are documents that are issued by a trusted authority to websites that want to use encryption (that's "https://"). When the certificate is issued, it's "stamped" with the address of the website that is going to be using it - in this case, "commerce.mbta.com". Your web browser can detect if the certificate is genuinely issued from that authority and then compares the site that you go to with the one stored in the certificate.

The problem here is that the domain stamped into the certificate ("www.mbta.com") is not the one you went to ("commerce.mbta.com") and thus your browser complains.

They need to issue a new certificate with the proper domain in it for your browser to stop complaining.

[xxv.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'd love to see real-time updates on the map! Now the next trick will be to get that information to my cellphones :-)

[ron_newman]

In Opera and Firefox, the browser at least complained about the certificate. In Safari, I got no complaint, just a very bad-looking website that had no stylesheet (because the stylesheet was on the secure server with the bad certificate).

[ron_newman]

It was working great earlier this morning, but now it's not responding at all.

[turil.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as Ron said, MBTA.com got nuttin' now.

[lonelyholiday.livejournal.com]

Hm, I'm trying to order a Charlie Card through the site and it keeps telling me "Error - ZipCode not set," even though I can SEE VERY WELL that my zip code is there. UGH!

But has anyone ordered through the site yet? I'm a bit nervous that my card will be charged for each of these "bad zip code" attempts, since we've already seen the multiple charging thing elsewhere in the system.

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Yeah, nothing's loading now (didn't try earlier). Fortunately I have a downloaded bus schedule and know which bus I want, but I was hoping to use this as an excuse to check out the new site. Gah.

[ron_newman]

As of a few minutes ago, the page says:

Where is the new website?

The MBTA apologizes for the slow response-time users experienced on our new website. We are currently doing everything we can to improve performance, and the new site will be re-released soon. In order to give customers the content needed, we are offering our former site while we work out the problems. Again, we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

[yangelina.livejournal.com]

Is anybody else slightly annoyed that they're spending money making a new website?