Who hit this place with the Ugly Stick?

itboffin

Join me @ the Morpeth and i'll explain all

1 beer per question mmmm beerZ

davis

Hey Jeff/ webdevs:

I mildly prefer the new layout, but some people don't.

In the "User control panel" there's an option under "Board Preferences" that says "Board style". Presumably this allows one to change the site's CSS and therefore design/layout. Any chance of a couple of additional styles? I suspect even I'm capable of tweaking the fonts (just for DDD) and I'm a CSS idiot.

EKE_38BPM

itboffin wrote:

No handbrake in my 740 just stop and it takes care of all that stuff - tiz the way it should be

I thought you got rid of the 740 in favour of a Kia? [shudder]

Jeff Jones

davis wrote:

Hey Jeff/ webdevs:

I mildly prefer the new layout, but some people don't.

In the "User control panel" there's an option under "Board Preferences" that says "Board style". Presumably this allows one to change the site's CSS and therefore design/layout. Any chance of a couple of additional styles? I suspect even I'm capable of tweaking the fonts (just for DDD) and I'm a CSS idiot.

Yes. See my previous couple of posts.

The reason behind the upgrade was because the old forum was going to fall over, as it already had done earlier this year. It couldn't handle the traffic volume - this one can. We had to use an out of the box design to minimise the disruption (it still took a week and there are still a couple of functional bugs). Doing design changes at the same time as an upgrade would have magnified the potential for error due to the way the forum is integrated into the main site.

In simpler terms, we went for 'make it work then make it pretty' (cue a form vs function, designer vs developer war)

suzyb

Jeff, can I suggest you post your previous few posts in the announcement thread as well.

This thread is massive and not everyone is going to read it fully.

Jeff Jones

suzyb wrote:

Jeff, can I suggest you post your previous few posts in the announcement thread as well.

This thread is massive and not everyone is going to read it fully.

I will, either today or tomorrow (am busy for the rest of the day)

Greg T

somethings wrong . . .

Nothings jumped off to the right yet . . . . .

bails87

Yep, it seems to be working!

Well done!

Greg T

bails87 wrote:

Yep, it seems to be working!

Well done!

I miss the old new site that didn't work right and had big blue boxes all over it - why did it have to change WHY????

Damn you Wiggle.

secretsam

Oh FFS it's been so long since I've been able to post on here I've forgotten what I wanted to say

Am sure it was something heart-warmingly nice about LiT, and absolutely nothing designed to ignite the highly-combustible DDD

BTW - isn't Morpeth in the North?? So is the Morpeth arms oop North or am I missing something?

Sorry if I'm on RANDOM mode, am answering questions in response to a tender request...

DonDaddyD

I like the little arrows at the bottom right of each post that sends the page back to the top. Nice touch.

OK at work on firefox I get no adverts whatsoever and no boxes with witty text where the adverts should be. When the site is like that I actually really like it.

rjsterry

SecretSam wrote:

Oh FFS it's been so long since I've been able to post on here I've forgotten what I wanted to say

Am sure it was something heart-warmingly nice about LiT, and absolutely nothing designed to ignite the highly-combustible DDD

BTW - isn't Morpeth in the North?? So is the Morpeth arms oop North or am I missing something?

Sorry if I'm on RANDOM mode, am answering questions in response to a tender request...

It's at the north end of Vauxhall Bridge, so north, but not oop. DDD seems quite chilled atm - bigger things to worry about.

secretsam

rjsterry wrote:

SecretSam wrote:

Oh FFS it's been so long since I've been able to post on here I've forgotten what I wanted to say

Am sure it was something heart-warmingly nice about LiT, and absolutely nothing designed to ignite the highly-combustible DDD

BTW - isn't Morpeth in the North?? So is the Morpeth arms oop North or am I missing something?

Sorry if I'm on RANDOM mode, am answering questions in response to a tender request...

It's at the north end of Vauxhall Bridge, so north, but not oop. DDD seems quite chilled atm - bigger things to worry about.

From Wikipedia: Morpeth is the county town of Northumberland, England.

So I was right, but wrong.

DDD's asked about the 50p tax rate, red rag + bull...I simply don't have the cojones to start something so inflammatory.

What's the big thing he's worried about (have been away for a while... :roll: )

bails87

Mini-DDD?

Or ddd?

CiB

So where's the edit button gone then? How do I add the keyword to my hastily dashed-off post that loses its meaning due to me missing a word out and therefore rendered as gibberish?

Even The Telegraph comments allow edits.

EDIT. Aah. It's there now I've gone away from that thread (and this) and come back to it. Wasn't though - the edit button isn't rendered when the post is first displayed.

Firefox 7.0.1, XP SP3.

lost_in_thought

SecretSam wrote:

Oh FFS it's been so long since I've been able to post on here I've forgotten what I wanted to say

Am sure it was something heart-warmingly nice about LiT, and absolutely nothing designed to ignite the highly-combustible DDD

BTW - isn't Morpeth in the North?? So is the Morpeth arms oop North or am I missing something?

Sorry if I'm on RANDOM mode, am answering questions in response to a tender request...

Yay!


ETA: it's messages like these that got me to the 10,000 club...

greg66_tri_v2.0

Can we please have the spellchecker/red underliner in the reply boxes? My inability to type accurately at speed is being shown up.

Kieran_Burns

Greg66 wrote:

Can we please have the spellchecker/red underliner in the reply boxes? My inability to type accurately at speed is being shown up.

Firefox add on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ictionary/

asprilla

SecretSam wrote:

From Wikipedia: Morpeth is the county town of Northumberland, England.

It's a nice place, I'll be there next weekend. Lived there for 20 years.

Jeff Jones

You can now choose whether you want to open links in a new window: to enable it, go to 'User Control Panel' > 'Board Preferences' tab and it's the bottom option ('Open external links in a new window')

notsoblue

This thread seems to have quietened down a little... looks like people have just gotten used to the change and the sky wasn't falling after all :P

jonginge

Jeff Jones wrote:

You can now choose whether you want to open links in a new window: to enable it, go to 'User Control Panel' > 'Board Preferences' tab and it's the bottom option ('Open external links in a new window')

Cheers, Jeff. Done

veronese68

Im trying to teach myself to click the mouse wheel, feels odd. Might change the settings.
Even better, for me, it now looks normal in ie6. I'm probably the only one left so thank you.

lost_in_thought

It's still pig-ugly, still makes my eyes ache, and still annoys me with the stupid little animations on the main page, but at least I've somehow managed to block the ads (rhymes with.... erm..... pad flocker?) and the links can open properly.

Oh and the private message notification thingy is good.

EKE_38BPM

JonGinge wrote:

Jeff Jones wrote:

You can now choose whether you want to open links in a new window: to enable it, go to 'User Control Panel' > 'Board Preferences' tab and it's the bottom option ('Open external links in a new window')

Cheers, Jeff. Done

+1

Now, about those ads in the middle of the threads...

dhope

EKE_38BPM wrote:

JonGinge wrote:

Jeff Jones wrote:

You can now choose whether you want to open links in a new window: to enable it, go to 'User Control Panel' > 'Board Preferences' tab and it's the bottom option ('Open external links in a new window')

Cheers, Jeff. Done

+1

Now, about those ads in the middle of the threads...

Schmire schmox schmad schmocker

snooks

Jeff Jones wrote:

You can now choose whether you want to open links in a new window: to enable it, go to 'User Control Panel' > 'Board Preferences' tab and it's the bottom option ('Open external links in a new window')

Thanks Jeff, nice to know we're being listened to ....but now the clickable smilies don't work for me...the ones over there >>>>>>> on the right of reply box

Yes I can type them in :twisted: :shock: etc, but I can't click on them and have them appear

Jeff Jones

I know - just noticed that myself. I've passed it onto our developer

sketchley

:shock: :evil: :twisted:

They work here!

MonkeyMonster

Phew... at least isn't laggier than a laggy beast from the slopes of upper laggdonia now.