[NATALIE D.]

It’s working today. I’m seeing the search box on any forum topic I select, and I’m getting results from the Ecuador forum. Fingers crossed.

Now on to speeding up the site? 🙂

Thanks.

[NATALIE D.]

Hi there –

I’m trying to follow up on this, but I can’t get a search box to come up at all now. I got it when I clicked on one posting, but when I returned to that same posting, it was gone. It’s possible that it appears the first time you view a posting, but not on subsequent visits. It’s not in the header; it appears in the body of the page when it comes up at all.

Earlier, I believe I searched on “pets” and got some results from the Colombia forum and the main site. I can’t reproduce it because I can’t find a a search box.

I’m using Chrome on Windows 7.

Thanks!

[NATALIE D.]

Thanks, Suzan. It’s great that the web guy is working on it, but it could use more tweaking. The search box only appears under certain circumstances — which I’m not bothering to figure out — while it should really be placed in the header so that it is available on every page.

Also, it searches the entire IL site, not just the Ecuador Insider Forum. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but ideally the user would be able to choose whether to search the entire site or just the forum.

Finally, the site remains painfully slow. Are there any plans to upgrade the hosting service or whatever is causing the slowdown on the back end of the site?

Thanks again for the update and for the incremental progress.

[NATALIE D.]

Yes, please! Thanks so much for your generosity.

dejanata@yahoo.com

[NATALIE D.]

When I was there last year, the employees at the cellular companies (Claro and MoviStar) were more than happy to check my phone for a Sim card that could be replaced with a local Sim card for the duration of my stay. This would be the cheapest option, but didn’t work in my case . . . so I just picked up the cheapest dumb phone they had for about $40 and put a $10 credit on it.

[NATALIE D.]

Thanks for the information, Suzan.

[NATALIE D.]

Well, for anyone following this post, it looks like you cannot pay taxes online, despite assurances to the contrary. I found someone on the ground to pay them for me, though that will cost more than the taxes themselves! Nonetheless, I’m grateful for the service.

[NATALIE D.]

Hi, Edd – But what if I’m out of the country? I was told I’d be able to pay online, and supposedly one can, but there don’t seem to be any links from the home page. Thanks for any ideas!

[NATALIE D.]

I’m still stumped. The URL to which all sources point is http://www.cuenca.gov.ec, but I can’t find any links that allow me to pay the taxes. I’ve been able to get the apartment value by going to http://www.cuenca.gov.ec/?q=page_avaluos, and I know that I’m looking for “recaudación del predio,” but I just can’t find the payment page. Anybody?

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