Forum Changes

[Captain Kwok]

Richard, I think the news links etc. on the left margin would be better suited on the right margin.

[Richard]

Sivran said:

Huh wha? I don't get what you're saying. I suppose you're talking about something I could possibly do from the front page of the overall shrapnel forums or something I could do with threaded view..

I was talking about an issue with too much scrolling space in the forum area because of the press releases going too far down on the left. Some folks on the forum close the forum areas they are not interested.

[Combat Wombat]

Do the "press releases" have to spread out more as the pages gets longer? They would be better if they stayed at the top.

Also you could make them a forum setting so say if I didnt want the press releases because I check the main page daily anyways I could turn them off if I so choose.

[Fyron]

Another thought... do the press releases need to be spaced evenly? It looks kind of silly to see them spaced out evenly with a long page. It would look better IMO if they were just positioned one after another right at the top, in the same place, no matter the length of the page.

[Fyron]

Richard said:
Some folks on the forum close the forum areas they are not interested.

I was not aware I could do that. Thanks for the info!

[Will]

Yeah, just some thoughts:

Move the sidebar thing to the right side, it just seems like it would fit better on that side to me.

Instead of having the press releases all spread out, in boxes, I think it would look much nicer (and cleaner!) if it is more of a list with everything on top. So, the "title" of the PR would take up the entire width of the sidebar (potentially), and the "subtitle" link would be directly under it. Then, instead of scrolling down a lot to see the next one, it begins immediately below. I'm not sure what would be a good use of the remaining space, or if it might be possible for posts "below" the PRs on a page can overflow to take that space back again. Well, it is possible to do that, now that I think about it, only it complicates the HTML considerably.

Also, I'm noticing that on the post-reply page, the text in both Firefox and IE is extremely close to the border. I tried in both because I've generally seen something like that happen in FF, but not IE. Perhaps add a little bit of padding, a pixel or two, for this page. The same thing is on the main forum listing, but the Post Icons help out with the spacing, and the problem isn't as noticable.

And to drag an old issue up: I want the bullet logo back, damnit

[CovertJaguar]

The Proxomitron is an amazing tool. Bye, bye sidebar. Just a couple of custom filters will make those sidebars go away.

No offence to you at shrapnel intended. They just take up too much room in my opinion. Feel free to delete this post if you wish.

Just add these two lines to their own custum web filters in the Matching Expression box, one line for each filter. Set the urls in both to "www.shrapnelcommunity.com" Increase the the byte limit to 2500 and 5000 respectively and Voila! No sidebar.
Code:

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<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" id="pr">**</a><br></td>*</table>*</td>

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Code:

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<tr><td align="center" valign="center" width="150" class="darktable?">*\n</table>

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EDIT: These no longer work after the latest changes. If someone asks I will post the new one, but only if someone asks.

[David E. Gervais]

I don't mind the 'press releases' info bar/fram on the left. I for one like that we can now go the the 'Shrapnel Home' from the formus instead of loading a second bookmark.

I of course would have to suggest that the 'text frames' be replaced with some spiffy graphic banner for the various news items, but that's just me. Perhaps a simple background for the text would work.

Also I agree that the press info not be spread out evenly, just have them at the top of the forum.

Just some thoughts, Cheers!

[David E. Gervais]

I just had to,..



What do you think of this sample?

Cheers!

[David E. Gervais]

And here is the blank gif that I used as the background..



You are in no way obligated to use this, I just felt compelled to do this little tweak.

Cheers!