Halifax Desktop Banking Pain - Solution

malc_b

I'm torn between this and the tech forum but as it relates to bank accounts I'll post here.

My pet peeve is that halifax online banking have redesigned their web site SOLELY for mobile users. As a desktop user I find I have to scroll so much I'm risking RSI. For example I look at my credit card statement where one page is ~4 screen heights and has 14 entries, 3.5 entries per screen height! And I have a 27in monitor. Frankly who ever is in charge of IT in halifax has no idea what they are doing. Browsers can tell what display they are serving and adjust the format. That's the whole idea of CSS.

Anyway, if you too are annoyed you do not have to put up with it!!

Firefox and chrome have an addon called stylish which I use. IE and opera have this inbuilt I think and there are other addons if you don't like stylish. This addon allows you to override dumb CSS on a site by site basis. My override for halifax's stupid design is:

.m-action-button, .m-action-button-on-white {padding-top: 5px !important; padding-bottom: 5px !important;}
body .m-container {max-width: 1480px;}
.sp-505-d-newly-upgraded-user-header {display: none;}
.m-700-d-statements.data-table-wrap.vtd .data-table .date {width: 15%;}
.m-700-d-statements.data-table-wrap.vtd .data-table .description{width: 51%;}

That fixes a lot of the issues and gives a wider, denser layout more suited to desktops. I hope this helps someone else.

Dan83

Oh thanks for that, I keep meaning to blow the dust off my desk top but a tablet is just to convenient.

Biggles

malc_b wrote: »

Frankly who ever is in charge of IT in halifax has no idea what they are doing.

Sadly, Lloyds went that way as well (unsurprising, as they are both part of the same group). So has MSE, of course, even their email only comes in 'narrow and tall', with massive white empty spaces at the sides.

Stylish looks interesting, I might take a closer look.

malc_b

Stylish is empowering. No longer am I dictated to on the page layout :-).

FYI another addon I like is hacktheweb. Before I print out a web page I can delete all the stuff I don't need (like adverts on an easyjet ticket) and remove all the colour blocks I don't need (don't these people know how much ink costs!).