Thread: New Site

No idea who runs the site tbh, but new layout/design is excellent. Much more fresh!

Originally Posted by glasgowaudi

No idea who runs the site tbh, but new layout/design is excellent. Much more fresh!

We only know that there is two of them and they live a Howard Hughes type existence being looked after by a religious sect sworn to secrecy in a castle in the Lechtaler Alps in Bavaria....I've probably said too much

Oh you must mean Dave and Jim...Smart Castle !

New site looks great!

What new site ?? i still have the old one in a cut down, not quite working form !

Anyone else getting smaller font/text on there emails with updates of a thread?

the new site looks great really fresh and up to date congrats to the owners they have done a good job on it

Great looking improvement, i can only imagine the site is now better protected with the fancy new software, good choice by the way, impressed with the new look.

If any bugs are spotted can you do a screenshot and post here but give it two days for fine tuning.

None of the Wiki's in the B6 section work anymore. I'm half way thru doing the "slow wiper" repair as well:-(

Looks much better, (been reading up for a few days before I start asking all my questions!)

Originally Posted by arthurfuxake

None of the Wiki's in the B6 section work anymore. I'm half way thru doing the "slow wiper" repair as well:-(

Thats a gutsache, I spent ages on them a week or so ago. Hopefully they'll be back soon.

Why havnt i got this new site :-(..and the thanks have gone !!

I think the links is the result of SEO not having been run yet.

Give it a day of so and see if it updates when the SEO is refreshed

Originally Posted by paddy

Why havnt i got this new site :-(..and the thanks have gone !!

Because you are special.lol

More likely, you have something else selected in your profile as the style chooser has gone.
It's kinda red and black wide style now

Originally Posted by Byzan A4

It's kinda red and black wide style now

Come again, red yes, what black as I have light grey as main background now.

Originally Posted by NHN

Come again, red yes, what black as I have light grey as main background now.

me too

+1

The wide screen is much better aswell, hated that $hite on the right hand side before, never used it at all!

So the site will eventually be red and black? Looks good as is, will see how it goes with black, sounds good thou!

Yea and its a narrow strip down the middle of the page ! not much wide style here ?

Well grey is only light black isn't it? LOL

Paddy, take a peak in your user CP and see what is selected in there as default style

so what was you saying about colours lol

Ok just so you can't say I'm not keeping an eye on this there are now two versions: a Fixed and a Fluid one so the everyone can be happy

My god Baz...what are you trying to do to me :-) i have no C/panel !! Its Gone !!!!!!

Ah got ya ...Fluid setting seems to work. Preferred legacy black...

Loving the new site guys, wasn't loving the downtime though, had nothing to do at work for the past 2 days.

I forgive you though

Looks Wicked - Top job!

There will be some messing around as the SEO is re installed. So if you seceen goes a little strange it's just me and VBSEO

A

Originally Posted by Mike071288

Loving the new site guys, wasn't loving the downtime though, had nothing to do at work for the past 2 days.

I forgive you though

lmao

FFS Are you still fixing it?If not why bugger around with something that was fine (again).To say it is insipid is an understatement.Just like the management at my firm.Obviously got nothing better to do than change for the sake of change.

Originally Posted by johnnythepie

FFS Are you still fixing it?If not why bugger around with something that was fine (again).To say it is insipid is an understatement.Just like the management at my firm.Obviously got nothing better to do than change for the sake of change.

they have changed it for the better mate i love the new site so do many others !

Originally Posted by johnnythepie

FFS Are you still fixing it?If not why bugger around with something that was fine (again).To say it is insipid is an understatement.Just like the management at my firm.Obviously got nothing better to do than change for the sake of change.

There is more to it than that. Functionality has always been a compromise. This time we are hoping for a more permenant solution with some extra features you all might enjoy, with stabilty to boot

yes new layout is nice but what about all the "thanks" that respected & helpful members accumulated??

Originally Posted by Byzan A4

There is more to it than that. Functionality has always been a compromise. This time we are hoping for a more permenant solution with some extra features you all might enjoy, with stabilty to boot

im sure there is,but why change the skin?I aint keen on the washed out look, the ochre coloured text of the last poster on a thread, the pale red bars...i thought my graphics card was playing up.Im also sure that a change of colour has no bearing on stability issues.Change the functionality etc by all means, but leave the skin alone.An 'extra feature' that would be great is to have a selection of skins to choose from.
@FranA3, Im glad you and others like it, but im fu%$"d off with so many parts of my existance that 'change' for the sake of it that its driving me mental.This site was the last straw after firefox updated to 4.0 which also changed its appearance.Ill go and sit in the corner for a while i think

The skin we had was adapted to suit and withe the recent update. just wouldnt work correctly. My chosen skin / sylte of grey folio black is still working.

The thanks are stored in a DB, but again the add on wouldn't interface with the update, so many things are happening behind the scenes to try and set it back up with no loss of current thanks. Other wise we will all have to start again

Thanks lads.. i like it !

Originally Posted by Byzan A4

The skin we had was adapted to suit and withe the recent update. just wouldnt work correctly. My chosen skin / sylte of grey folio black is still working.

The thanks are stored in a DB, but again the add on wouldn't interface with the update, so many things are happening behind the scenes to try and set it back up with no loss of current thanks. Other wise we will all have to start again

Oh good! Happy days.

Well

THANKS!

Make sure you add that to the database

Hi there Just so you all know we are testing the SEO and there is a bug in the IE version. I hope to have a solution in the next hour or so.

Many thanks

A

Ok that should keep things going for now. I'm sure Rob will be add and removing a few thing over the next 24hours

A

If you look at this page

Link -Do I have DIS?

Post 8 is one line with a scroll bar and post 10 is multi line with no scroll bar.

Is there a way to show all the post without the scroll bar ?
OH and i worked hard to get 500 thanks and at 501...they have disappeared. !!!
Also i had to add link to the line above or no one would know it was a link.

O this is not clever at all.
If you sroll up this page with your mouse wheel it scolls the one line posts that your pointer stops on so the one line goes out of view. You then have a page of blank posts un less you click on each one and scroll the posts back into view.

You can see that as i scrolled up the page it scrolled all the scroll bars down so the posts disappear.

Originally Posted by voorhees

We only know that there is two of them and they live a Howard Hughes type existence being looked after by a religious sect sworn to secrecy in a castle in the Lechtaler Alps in Bavaria....I've probably said too much

and there was I thinking I was the only one here in a secret society

loving this new style, makes its easier to read for sure!

Originally Posted by paddy

O this is not clever at all.
If you sroll up this page with your mouse wheel it scolls the one line posts that your pointer stops on so the one line goes out of view. You then have a page of blank posts un less you click on each one and scroll the posts back into view.
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a103/F18/PS.jpg
You can see that as i scrolled up the page it scrolled all the scroll bars down so the posts disappear.

That's a normal behaviour of Windows / your browser (Firefox 4.0x by any chance?) and a scroll-wheel mouse. Historically/Normally whenever a window (or nested window) has focus (ie was the last one clicked), it will be the one to respond to scrolling. More recently there has been a trend (and this is why I mention FF4, it seems to have been adopted in that), to make whichever window (or nested window) is under the mouse pointer be the one that responds to a scroll input.

I'll have a look to see if we can put something in place to work-around it; but the easiest way is for you to put your mousepointer somewhere away from nested scrollable windows (ie in the margins at left or right), and scroll there. Et voila, only the main page content will scroll.

Regards,

Rob.

I use Google Chrome. I was really wondering why single line posts need a scroll bar when the larger multi line posts dont. ?
IE: your post 44 has no scroll bar and is viewable in its entirety where as the one line administrator post 38 needs to be scrolled to read it ?

Originally Posted by paddy

Yea and its a narrow strip down the middle of the page ! not much wide style here ?

Yeah this could do with changing. Doesn't look very good.

Westy
Go to your User CP
Select general settings and near the bottom select Forum Skin and change that to fluid.

Not sure on the scorll bars.. What's that about?

Robs post is large with it's quote and no scroll bars, yet some of Paddys one or two liners have bars.

Teething troubles i am sure

Originally Posted by paddy

Westy
Go to your User CP
Select general settings and near the bottom select Forum Skin and change that to fluid.

Thanks. That's done the trick.

Oooh I like this the alot! At Last!