Forum maintenance upgrade - 02/09/08

[MarkE]

Firefox seems to give a different issue to Safari though. In Safari it puts the notices directly after the header instead of on the line below. With Firefox it just seems to put scroll bars in.

Same thing in Chrome (which in fairness is still in Beta anyway). Everything fits just fine in 1280 pixel screen width but the notices are over to the right by themselves. Hadn't even noticed until just now.

 

[lunalupi]

As much as it pains me to say this, there is a bug in Apple's Safari browser which causes the max width of the forum to be incorrect. I will speak to the coders in due course and see if they can work out what the problem is.

IE (on pc) and Firefox (on mac and pc) appear unaffected.

Further to my problem I found yesterday:

I use Firefox 2, on a Laptop with a 15" screen.
On this thread, the 'notice' box at the top has set itself waaaaaaaaaay over to the left of the rest of the forum, I have to scroll accross an entire screens width to see it.

On other threads though (General Chat for instance), it's fine!

Rest of the thread is all laid out fine though

 

[DPJ]

Problem.

The banner has slipped down over my menu bar buttons. I'll try and post a picture.........

 

[m0rk]

lots of little tweeks tonight, less wasted space etc hopefully (esp at the top)

more to come, but with only a couple of hours a night in the week it's little by little.

more stuff to come in the weekend that would be classed as 'plugin'

 

[Ibiza125]

one thing, may have been mentioned, i am sorry if it has but can a 'forum home' button be added to the top of the page like on the old style site. ie next to the user cp and F&Q's buttons

Just click the header... Much easier than a button...


Have had a look through and one big thing that I don't like is the thread icons. I think they are too big and they are kind of confusing... Well not confusing just hard to tell what is new and what is not. I liked the old icons that had the flame over the normal 'no new posts in this thread' icon, instead of the different coloured icon it is now.

That's my opinion, I like the rest!

 

[DPJ]

I realise you're working on this...........

 

[m0rk]

Problem.

The banner has slipped down over my menu bar buttons. I'll try and post a picture.........

before you do...

hit ctrl f5 - it might be a cache issue.

 

[m0rk]

yup - cache issue.... i've changed files that you have a copy stored locally.

we'll be adding a "home" button once one is drawn - just a small oversight when we specced it

 

[DPJ]

Yep - sorted.

 

[markmeus]

Ohh I'll be glad to see the return of the home button. I didnt even realise it had gone untill I found myself going to the top left of the screen to get back to the main forum and then then wondering why I felt something was missing.

Then I began to think was there ever a home button.

Funny how the mind takes things for granted untill they're gone.

Also like how you've removed the white bar at the very top and bottom. Much better use of space!

 

[MarkE]

Ohh I'll be glad to see the return of the home button. I didnt even realise it had gone untill I found myself going to the top left of the screen to get back to the main forum and then then wondering why I felt something was missing

As above, clicking the header does the same thing.

 

[markmeus]

I realised that after about 5 minutes but I still liked the home button.

 

[driveforward]

The tweaks to the layout of the header/banner are much better chaps, now takes up less screen space; thanks for that

 

[ZBOYD]

I realised that after about 5 minutes but I still liked the home button.

If you do an F5 you'll get a surprise.

 

[markmeus]

I love it lol!

Made my day.

Cheers guys!

 

[Tam]

banners are back ....

The header looks a *lot* better now though thanks for that

 

[DPJ]

Looking better by the minute.

 

[ZBOYD]

m0rk has been in the zone tonight. He's done a stirling job.

 

[m0rk]

Still things to do, but it's getting there now.

I liked the time saying the last post was "5 minutes ago" etc btw

 

[markmeus]

Still things to do, but it's getting there now.

I liked the time saying the last post was "5 minutes ago" etc btw

I agree, saves my poor little brain from having to work it out