Forums Upgraded - 2004-02-10

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Site is now running vB3 RC 4.

This upgrade was also performed without first performing a "mock upgrade" on another server. So if you see anything wrong, please let me know ASAP.

Mark Hensler
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Text "location" is missing on the left user info brief. Smiling

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Fixed.

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Found one more, there's no reply button for private messages. Only quote.

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That's the default template.

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I've restarted the second skin I began a few versions ago. Unfortunately, because of changes in the forum software, I've had to start from scratch.

It's currently called "TWF Experimental", as I am experimenting with it. I hope to change the name when I'm done with it, but don't expect me to get that creative. Wink

What I'm trying to accomplish is reducing the clutter (visually) and download time while maintaining the level of information and functionality. If you have any suggestions or see any errors, please let me know.

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Oh. I forgot to mention...

I'd like to encourage everyone to update their "Gender" in their profile. I've created some new online/offline icons and I'm using this value to colorize (colourize) them in the new skin.

Beside my name should be a little blue (pink for the ladies, gray for unknown) bust thingy. Solid means online. A hollow outline means offline. And if you can see invisible people (admins, and maybe mods), you'll see a hollow body with a solid head.

Be amazed. Be very amazed. This is my most creative concept yet. Smiling

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haha, nice. Smiling Except I don't see any... but I don't suppose I'm meant to yet.

Btw, it's "colourise" in these parts. Wink

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Abhishek Reddy wrote: Btw, it's "colourise" in these parts. Wink

Argh. I have yet to learn to spell.

Should I change the pink color? Give me an RGB to use in photoshop.

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Mark Hensler wrote: Should I change the pink color? Give me an RGB to use in photoshop.

Um um, I can't decide. What looks like pink to me probably looks too blue to you. Better solution would be to change the spatial appearance of the icon to represent male and female, instead of depending on colours. (Like traffic signal lights count on the standard stop-change-go top-down order as well as red-amber-green.) Maybe use the universal male and female icons like you'd see on restroom doors?

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I don't see any icons!

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d'oh. Select TWF Experimental skin in your Control Panel to see it. Smiling I thought Experimental was default. I must learn to read properly. Sticking out tongue

Edit: hm, my partial red-green blindness makes that pink icon look grey to me when I don't focus on it. Oh well. Sad

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Ahhh! I see them now Smiling

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OOhhhhh... its all different. Lookie! I changed my avatar as well! Smiling

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Mark, you're a wild and crazy guy. Smiling I like the busts.

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When [code ] is used, people using IE in Mac see nothing, this was a problem before the upgrade as well.

No longer do I surf TWF at home (using Firebird), I'm at Natcoll and we do everything on Macs so yeah... :S

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http://www.apple.com/safari
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

If you're using Macs, you should be using Safari -- IE/Mac is getting very long in the tooth and should be upgraded, only they stopped production on it over a year ago?

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I took out the width/height/overflow CSS style properties. Does everything work now?

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The scroll problems are gone! Smiling And yes.

There were some weird scrolling hidden areas before, those have been fixed as well. Also works in IE5/mac.

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Heh, or the O-> and O+ symbols.

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I don't see how they could work with the hollowing/filling idea. No, maybe some kind of background could be used to indicate status. How about it, Mark? Smiling

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Suzanne: I doubt they will change browser but I'll talk to my tutor about it sometime - I've been meaning to get Firebird on it anyway.

Opps, its Firefox now...D'oh!

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slight change of subject

I'm using the experimental skin and every time I log on it shows the new thread posted icon next to all of the topics, kinda of confusing as you think every topic has a new post, the icons over power the underlined folders.

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Looks good to me I dont see any errors in ie 5.5

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What happened to the banner rotation at the top of the page? Can you re-institute that? I believe it was for members with a certain amount of posts...but I don't remember the number.

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Busy wrote: I'm using the experimental skin and every time I log on it shows the new thread posted icon next to all of the topics, kinda of confusing as you think every topic has a new post, the icons over power the underlined folders.

I know what you mean. I wanted to have a "New Thread" link next to each forum for convenience, so I took the thread_dot_new.gif and changed the dot into a plus. I had the search icon from the postbit, so I just threw that in there too. All that stuff makes for a crowded cell.

Can I get more opinions? Exchange icons for text links? Loose the links alltogether? Re-arange the cell?

Eskater05 wrote: What happened to the banner rotation at the top of the page? Can you re-institute that? I believe it was for members with a certain amount of posts...but I don't remember the number.

The Community Banner System is working for me (banners are showing up). For more info, check the FAQ entry.

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how about just making it hollow or muted so as not so much of an attention getter.

I see the banners too

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oh, maybe it's because I have built in ad-blocking...even inside websites...lol. I see.

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BTW, vBulletin3 plans to go GOLD before too long from now. Later this week, I'm sure.

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