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Updated News Layout

I've tweaked the news layout somewhat to make things display a little nicer and to give a little more clarity behind who the news items are from.  I think it also tends to make news items stand out from eachother a little better.  I've also increased the news display count to 15 items instead of just 5.  We seem to be getting quite a few news submissions these days and I felt that a lot of the items were running off of the front page before people would get a chance to read them.  Anyway, hope you guys like it.

We're looking at a few more ways to enhance the site layout atm also.. possibly by adding a nice download and links section again.  I'll keep everyone updated.

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Reply #1 –
ONe thing I thought for layout: (just a thought)


on some other forums, under "my controls" or "user cp"  you view subscribed threads in order of "the last day", the "last 2 days" etc.

I was wondering if this would be possible and/or if other people like this?
"You can fight without ever winning, but never win without a fight."  Neil Peart  'Resist'

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Reply #2 –
Personally, I've never used the subscribed threads feature so I'm not really certain.  I'll try to take a look at that though.

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Reply #3 –
maybe if people suggested what they like?
"You can fight without ever winning, but never win without a fight."  Neil Peart  'Resist'

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Reply #4 –
I don't really understand exactly what you mean. I like it the way it is though.
Juha Laaksonheimo

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Reply #5 –
what I meant was when you go to "my controls"  you have a list of your subsribed threads that have been active in the last 24 hours.  You also have a drop down list that allows you to view thread from the last [insert # of days here]. 

Maybe it wasn't such a good idea, just a suggestion
"You can fight without ever winning, but never win without a fight."  Neil Peart  'Resist'

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Reply #6 –
Everything looks great except maybe you should put the name of the poster above avatars instead of the body of a post. It would be clearer that way who posted it.
\"The true method of knowledge is experiment.\" - William Blake

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Reply #7 –
Well, I really like the fact that now you can see the last 15 newstopics. Just to be sure I dont miss one

/J
[span style=\'font-family:Arial\'][span style=\'color:red\']Life Sucks Deeply[/span][/span]

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Reply #8 –
I like it a lot, but the dashed border is a little distracting. I'd like it more if the text was encompassed in a white background with a border, kind of like the quoted posts/replies are styled. It would make the news item easier to read.

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Reply #9 –
When I check the active topics and the # of topics runs over more than one page (as it usually does), I would like to have a link to the next page printed at the bottom of the screen.

Currently, I have to scroll all the way to the top of the page, and then click the underlined 2 under the Active Topics header.

Could you just copy the page-counting widget so it also prints itself below the table of threads? Or is there an even better way to go to the next page that I haven't discovered yet?

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Everything looks great except maybe you should put the name of the poster above avatars instead of the body of a post. It would be clearer that way who posted it.

I agree. Although I usually just look at the avatar and know who posted the message, it takes a second for me to figure out who posted if the poster has no avatar, or the avatar is unfamiliar to me.

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When I check the active topics and the # of topics runs over more than one page (as it usually does), I would like to have a link to the next page printed at the bottom of the screen.

Currently, I have to scroll all the way to the top of the page, and then click the underlined 2 under the Active Topics header.


I couldn't agree more, that also disturbs me. I've gotten used to jumping right to the top of the page with the HOME/POS1 key though.


Three minor issues with the new layout:

1) The width of the column in which the user details are displayed isn't constant:

) It now appears right at the top of the table cell, which looks dodgy.


Anyway, I like it. Thanks Dibrom!

Dominic

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Reply #11 –
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1) The width of the column in which the user details are displayed isn't constant

This appears to be a resolution problem; at 1024x768, everything lines up fine, but at lower resolutions, the problem in Volcano's screenshot is evident.

Fixing the details column at ~130px wide would fix the bug and make every user details cell large enough even to handle Dibrom's flowery title

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Reply #12 –
Thanks for the tip.  I checked down to 1024x768 but forgot to try 800x600 so I didn't realize that the text wasn't aligned properly.  I'll see what I can do, and I'll also take a look at the active topics page.

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Reply #13 –
Ok... well, I couldn't actually see the problem Volcano showed in his screenshot (I tried both IE and Mozilla at 800x600), but by looking at the code I could see where the alignment should be off.  Don't know why it didn't show up for me though.  At any rate, I made some changes which should have fixed it.  Also, I believe the fonts for the news user profile should be the same as in the posts now.  Finally, I added the little page links to the bottom of the Active Topics display like SometimesWarrior suggested.

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Reply #14 –
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1) The width of the column in which the user details are displayed isn't constant

This appears to be a resolution problem; at 1024x768, everything lines up fine, but at lower resolutions, the problem in Volcano's screenshot is evident.

Fixing the details column at ~130px wide would fix the bug and make every user details cell large enough even to handle Dibrom's flowery title

I couldn't see this problem in the browsers I tried (IE6 and Mozilla/Phoenix).  Are you guys using Opera or something else?

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Reply #15 –
Uhm... yeah, I forgot to mention I do use Opera - sorry. That screenshot was taken at 1152*864.

Edit: And thanks for fixing the page jump links in Active Topics.

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I couldn't see this problem in the browsers I tried (IE6 and Mozilla/Phoenix). Are you guys using Opera or something else?


the new news layout is nice and easier to read and understand.

( same problem with ie if you squeeze the resolution, not that iam bothered by that, just reporting -
http://smok3.envy.nu/news_ha.gif - copy/paste 'trick' to hide the refferer will do.)
PANIC: CPU 1: Cache Error (unrecoverable - dcache data) Eframe = 0x90000000208cf3b8
NOTICE - cpu 0 didn't dump TLB, may be hung

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Reply #17 –
Hrmm... strange.  I did try different resolutions and resizing the browser window and everything when I was trying to reproduce this I thought.  Anyway, I'll take another look and see what I can do.

EDIT:  Ok, I see it now, even in Mozilla.  I'll see what I can do to fix it.
 

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Reply #18 –
Ok.. it's fixed.