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Originally posted by: Jay
Originally posted by: Shimraa
hey jay are you going to have the costum colour function again, cause i havent been a fan of those colours i have mine changed right now. the grey on grey on grey jsut doesnt work for me


Not at launch, no. I'll probably put together some alternative color schemes later on, but I doubt I'll build a color editor like the current software. Too much work for a function that very few people use. If you take some screen captures of a few forum pages and send them to me (preferably in GIF, PNG, or bitmap format to maintain color accuracy), I can try to build a color scheme that mimics what you're using.

Anybody else not like the color scheme, either in the current forum or the new design? It is pretty damn bland now that I take off my developer's glasses and look at it with my designer's glasses. It's tough for me to say because I haven't had my LCDs professionally calibrated and I don't know if they're color-correct. Plus, I've always preferred muted colors.

After the Mac expenditure, I don't really have any money left over for one of their studio LCDs, which I've heard have great out-of-the-box calibration.

if you change the background to Black i think it jsut might work. also if you use a dark charcoal grey for one of the border colours it will look very nice. the black is key though if you do that it will make the site look alot better.
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Honestly, I really like the current color scheme.


Come to think of it, I'm gonna miss this current software.....

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I looked with IE6, and the post reply and subscribe buttons take up the whole screen width. The reply itself is the exact same width, but shifted to the right due to the boxes there. I am also trying it in the IE 7 beta from Windows Vista, which does the same thing. When I get more time I will do Lynx and Links screens. I don't have cygwin installed which prevents me from getting screens of konqueror, which uses the same rendering engine as Safari.

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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
I'm glad that you've stuck with the same general 'feel' of the site, the same fonts etc, because I always felt it looked very cool as it was. Weird seeing that teaser actually - it was the same, but diffrent. Will take some getting used to.

I agree 100% I like the fact that the new site will keep kind of the look and feel of the old one.

Originally posted by: Jay
I'd love to see a screen capture of what you saw because it's broken in every version of IE I've tried.

Here's what it looks like in Firefox for Windows, and pretty much what it should look like in all browsers once I've finalized the browser detection and custom stylesheets. I have font smoothing turned on though, so the text will look different if you don't.


I tried it in netscape and could not read the text, it looked like it was written in Russian. Please tell me a won't have to change my web browser from Netscape to Firefox?

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Originally posted by: skyman8081
I looked with IE6, and the post reply and subscribe buttons take up the whole screen width. The reply itself is the exact same width, but shifted to the right due to the boxes there. I am also trying it in the IE 7 beta from Windows Vista, which does the same thing. When I get more time I will do Lynx and Links screens. I don't have cygwin installed which prevents me from getting screens of konqueror, which uses the same rendering engine as Safari.

IE doesn't properly render div table CSS, which is why the reply and subscribe buttons stretch across the screen. It's disheartening to hear MS is maintaining their poor standards support in IE7.

Originally posted by: Warbler
I tried it in netscape and could not read the text, it looked like it was written in Russian.


Bizarre. Screen capture if you can, please. You can e-mail it to me if you don't have anyplace to host it.
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Originally posted by: Warbler
I tried it in netscape and could not read the text, it looked like it was written in Russian. Please tell me a won't have to change my web browser from Netscape to Firefox?


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Netscape and Firefox both use the same rendering engine, Gekko. If you want to switch web browsers, use Opera.

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Looking at the IE screenshots people have posted, it looks like I am seeing the same as everyone else.

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I tried it again, The mouse arrow turned into a the magnifying glass, allowing me to enlarge the image. In the enlarged verison, the text is easily readable.
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Jay is there a way to make a different CSS structure for those using IE in other to emulate the look on Firefox? I, for instance, cannot use anything other than IE on the office, for some crazy political reasons I don't really understand.
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Sorry for the confusion. The site will look absolutely fine in IE when I'm done with it. I just haven't had time to build a custom stylesheet for each browser yet.
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Jay is there a way to make a different CSS structure for those using IE in other to emulate the look on Firefox? I, for instance, cannot use anything other than IE on the office, for some crazy political reasons I don't really understand.


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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Originally posted by: ricarleite
Jay is there a way to make a different CSS structure for those using IE in other to emulate the look on Firefox? I, for instance, cannot use anything other than IE on the office, for some crazy political reasons I don't really understand.


Bill Gates is the majority shareholder?


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Well, ric, you said it was crazy political reasons, so that was my first instinct.

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hey jay, like the new look just one question though, could we have a higher pixel count for avatars?
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Hey Jay, a question about something for the new forum software:

In this current incarnation, a user sees what has been updated indicated by the blueness of the folder icon next to it, but this changes by what machine you're using to check the forum, rather than the username, which is how most message boards I use operate, and the way I much prefer. If I'm out of town or something and want to use someone else's computer to check the forum, I have to figure out what's been updated and not. Then, when I get back to my own machine, I have to figure out what I've already read, etc. Will the new software count the updates according to the logged in user, or the way it currently does?

(If any of that didn't make sense, just ask and I'll try to clarify.)

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Originally posted by: Switch Radic
hey jay, like the new look just one question though, could we have a higher pixel count for avatars?

I'm planning on 75 x 75. Users on slower connections will be able to block avatars and other images if they choose via their control panel settings, so I figured larger avatars wouldn't be a problem.

Originally posted by: ReverendBeastly
Hey Jay, a question about something for the new forum software:

In this current incarnation, a user sees what has been updated indicated by the blueness of the folder icon next to it, but this changes by what machine you're using to check the forum, rather than the username, which is how most message boards I use operate, and the way I much prefer. If I'm out of town or something and want to use someone else's computer to check the forum, I have to figure out what's been updated and not. Then, when I get back to my own machine, I have to figure out what I've already read, etc. Will the new software count the updates according to the logged in user, or the way it currently does?


I haven't built that functionality yet. It may or may not be incorporated in this first build. I gave myself a personal deadline of late tomorrow night to get a beta version online in some form, so it probably won't make it in time for that.

When I do get to that functionality, it will probably be based on username.
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Sounds good, Jay. That's just always been a personal minor irritation of mine, but I'll live one way or the other. Can't wait to see the beta!

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I need literally like one or two more days. I got stuck on something yesterday and made the mistake of lingering on it instead of setting it aside and finishing other things.
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I wasn't sure where else to put this, but what are the plans for putting a limit on the size of pictures or amount of text in the signature area, if there are any?

I might be the only one here, but overly large pictures in the signature area and excessive amounts of text(in both amount of lines and characters) are extremely distracting and kinda take something away from the whole foruming experience, if that makes any sense.
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Signatures will have a 500 character limit. While there won't be a limit to image sizes in signatures, you'll be able to block users' forum signatures completely if you wish. You'll also be able to substitute links to images instead of loading the image itself.
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I like all of these ideas. While my connection isn't slow, my work computer is.

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Should be pretty slick when it's all done.

Redesigned the database tonight. Didn't like where it was going. Got too complicated. Much more streamlined now.

Beta's coming.
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Not a problem. I deserve some ribbing for all the empty promises of "imminent" betas.

It truly is close now though

A few more days should do it. My database rebuild is complete and there's enough functionality completed that I could let you guys start testing at least some portions of the software while I finish up the rest.

In all seriousness, I think you guys will begin testing at some point over the weekend.
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