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[robbalvey]

^ Understood. Yeah, I think it actually might be a browser related issue.

[CoasterLine]

Any company working off of Internet Explorer 6 should upgrade immediately. There are so many vulnerabilities, let alone visual in-capabilities of the browser.

 

Hell, look at the Google in China fiasco...

 

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1378911,00.html

[AlmereStars]

Well it works pretty good over here. I'm gladd the yellow border is removed when attaching a picture! I always thought that was ugly

 

I got a few really small things though

 

The line in the green box isn't centered. But it isn't alligned to the right either. I don't if this is supposed to be like this, or if its just a browser error. Browsing with FireFox 3.5.7 btw.

 

I also don't like the black boxes in the calender. I would make them the same grey colour as the background, so you can see the date/clock and calender logo but not the whole box

 

and in the second picture you can see that the whiteline seperating the user info with the post itself doesn't make it all the way to the bottom when the post is smaller then the user info.

 

I'm also missing a dropdown menu where you can choose the page where you want to go.

Edit: never mind about this one, if you click the white link saying "page 1 of .." you can fill in the page number you want

user info

green box

[JK]

I did notice that the larger user name font has caused long user names to overflow the box.

 

Browser : Firefox 3.5.7.

 

- James

[prototech]

From looking at the HTML of the page, it looks like the

tag for the body of the post (class: postBody) just needs to have "height: 100%;", along with "vertical-align: top;" added to it, for the white border to be stretched the entire height of the box...

That won't work unless the the parent container (.post) has a height defined.

 

^ Understood. Yeah, I think it actually might be a browser related issue.

Correct. IE6 does not support png alpha transparency.

I would simply convert it back to a gif and add a suitable matte. Another solution would be to make a gif version and add the following to tweaks.css:

* html .online {
background-image: url("{T_IMAGESET_LANG_PATH)/icon_user_online.gif");
}

Or if you want to fix all the png images at once, there's some javascript solutions out there that will also work.

[CoasterLine]

^ ah, true. There are many reasons why I hate the usage of div tags alone in dynamic applications. I find tables a lot easier to format using CSS when it comes to dynamic information where everything (length wise) is fluid.

 

If this "post template" was designed using tables, the whole borders situation would be nulled.

[Hhappy]

I did notice that the larger user name font has caused long user names to overflow the box.

 

Browser : Firefox 3.5.7.

 

- James

 

reduced the size of the font a little so this should be less at this moment...

[Hhappy]

I got a few really small things though

 

The line in the green box isn't centered. But it isn't alligned to the right either. I don't if this is supposed to be like this, or if its just a browser error. Browsing with FireFox 3.5.7 btw.

I do know about this. This is a side affect of fixing some display challenges with Opera.

As soon as you're logged on it displays correctly to the far right.

I kinda like it at this moment since it emphasices the login button a little more..

 

I also don't like the black boxes in the calender. I would make them the same grey colour as the background, so you can see the date/clock and calender logo but not the whole box

let me see how that will look

 

and in the second picture you can see that the whiteline seperating the user info with the post itself doesn't make it all the way to the bottom when the post is smaller then the user info.

This was mentioned earlier and i'm still looking into a fix/solution for this..

[Emiroo]

Will the Age/Gender information be shown in the new system? (It's currently not there.)

 

I often take take these details into consideration when making a post and would miss them if they don't make the cut.

[andyuk200523]

Is there any way that in the email message you get if you are following a topic the email can include the message (albeit without photos if a Photo TR) that has been posted which triggers the email?

 

I am on a few forums that use this feature and it is very handy when at work so I can keep an eye on what's being posted without having to load up the entire website (which is frowned upon at work)

 

Just a thought, not sure if this would be easy to implement.

 

 

Just wondering if this got overlooked and if anyone had any opinions on this idea??

[robbalvey]

^ Not overlooked, but if it's available, we'll set it to on because I do also like this feature on other forums.

[andyuk200523]

Awesome, thanks for the swift reply Robb...

[Hhappy]

^ i've seen a mod for this and will take a closer look at this today.

 

I've changed the colors on the calendar.. but personally i do not like it.. i do prefer the black..

 

Please let me know what you think..

[robbalvey]

^ I'm indifferent to the color, but what everyone else likes is fine. On another calendar note, though, I think making the "day" box and the "week of" box and text smaller might actually help some of the issues with it being too big or obstructive. Those two areas take up about 1/2 of the space the current calendar does now. Reducing the size of it overall in height would probably be a very good thing.

 

--Robb

[robbalvey]

I have no idea how easy the template for the calandar is to edit, but is it possible to do something more streamlined like this example (doesn't have to be exactly this example, but you get the idea...) Something like this saves us 30 pixels in height.

AFTER

BEFORE

[gisco]

I think what makes the calendar look big is that there is the announcment box above it now. The text in the announcements is a little small. I think if that text was a little bigger and once the calendar information is filled in, the calendar is not going to stick out like it does now.

[robbalvey]

^ The annoucement box is something we're testing out right now. It's purpose is to replace the "Roller Coasters in the RAW 4...." type of things you see at the top of this forum, and also make them a bit more visible.

 

I do agree it's a little big. In fact the box shouldn't be any bigger than the blue header and the one line of text that's inside of it.

 

Hanno?

[AlmereStars]

^ i've seen a mod for this and will take a closer look at this today.

 

I've changed the colors on the calendar.. but personally i do not like it.. i do prefer the black..

 

Please let me know what you think..

 

Uhm that didn't come out as I expected. This looks a little bit boring. But when its filled with text it will look better I think

[Hhappy]

Is there any way that in the email message you get if you are following a topic the email can include the message (albeit without photos if a Photo TR) that has been posted which triggers the email?

 

I am on a few forums that use this feature and it is very handy when at work so I can keep an eye on what's being posted without having to load up the entire website (which is frowned upon at work)

 

Just a thought, not sure if this would be easy to implement.

 

added this to the board.

 

see attached printscreen for setting in user control panel

[Hhappy]

^ The annoucement box is something we're testing out right now. It's purpose is to replace the "Roller Coasters in the RAW 4...." type of things you see at the top of this forum, and also make them a bit more visible.

 

I do agree it's a little big. In fact the box shouldn't be any bigger than the blue header and the one line of text that's inside of it.

 

Hanno?

 

Reduced the size of the announcement box. Better?

[prototech]

^ ah, true. There are many reasons why I hate the usage of div tags alone in dynamic applications. I find tables a lot easier to format using CSS when it comes to dynamic information where everything (length wise) is fluid.

 

If this "post template" was designed using tables, the whole borders situation would be nulled.

That makes one of you. Nothing worse than seeing tables improperly used for layout construct rather than tabular data, heh.

 

 

Hhappy: the quick login in the index page would benefit from a bottom margin.

[Hhappy]

^ thanks for that suggestion.

added a small margin.

[CoasterLine]

That makes one of you. Nothing worse than seeing tables improperly used for layout construct rather than tabular data, heh.

 

Each to its own. DIV tags can be used as much if not more improperly than tables can... if you know how to use each, they are as good as each other

[King of Ka]

Regarding the calendar, what if it were moved to the bottom? This way it wouldn't seem so large with the announcements, and the most important part, the forums themselves, would be more on-screen when the page first loads.

 

Also, this is similar to the spacing with post size, I wonder if the borders for the topics and posts in the forum index could extend the entire box? In fact, the extra space seems caused in part by having "Moderators: robbalvey, Sharktums, TPR ASSistants" under each section. Could this line be dropped to take up less space?

 

This is with Chrome 3.0 and Firefox 3.5 on a 1280x1024 screen.

 

EDIT: Also, Chrome displays the threads on rollover as red.

[Hhappy]

^ regarding the red and Chrome thingy..

Please clear all cookies, history etc in Chrome.. see if it helps.