I’ve noticed that the sidebar makes the forum too narrow, I think we should just show the sidebar on the Home, News, Blogs, Features and About Us sections, but in the forum it should just show the “Your Account” menu on the top of the screen. I hope it’s not to hard to do, if it is just forget it.
I don’t know why, but when I use IE on XP, the forums are showing up as rather wide. In fact, the posted time column is completely cut off (I have to scroll sideways to see it), and I’m using a 20” monitor. Under Firefox, however, it seems fine. I don’t know if this is just happening to me, but I thought I’d mention it in case.
I don’t know why, but when I use IE on XP, the forums are showing up as rather wide. In fact, the posted time column is completely cut off (I have to scroll sideways to see it), and I’m using a 20” monitor. Under Firefox, however, it seems fine. I don’t know if this is just happening to me, but I thought I’d mention it in case.
It probably isn’t just you. IE tends to hate us. At least it’s much better than the old site, which didn’t display parts of pages at alll.
I don’t know why, but when I use IE on XP, the forums are showing up as rather wide. In fact, the posted time column is completely cut off (I have to scroll sideways to see it), and I’m using a 20” monitor. Under Firefox, however, it seems fine. I don’t know if this is just happening to me, but I thought I’d mention it in case.
Removing the sidebar would alleviate this problem as well.
I don’t know why, but when I use IE on XP, the forums are showing up as rather wide. In fact, the posted time column is completely cut off (I have to scroll sideways to see it), and I’m using a 20” monitor. Under Firefox, however, it seems fine. I don’t know if this is just happening to me, but I thought I’d mention it in case.
(Zeroethly, the preview for this post has a broken quote.) Firstly, the thing just failed and I lost my post. Second, the forums do stick out to the side on IE - even on a widescreen monitor I’m forced to scroll, I’d say it’s poking over about 5cm on mine (not that centimetres mean too much in this respect). Third, the smiley window is also broken on at least IE - the attached image is the default view once it’s finished loading the page:
I’ve noticed that the sidebar makes the forum too narrow, I think we should just show the sidebar on the Home, News, Blogs, Features and About Us sections, but in the forum it should just show the “Your Account” menu on the top of the screen. I hope it’s not to hard to do, if it is just forget it.
I agree, especially about the sidebar, an optimal page layout should only contain what’s relevant and an absolute minimum, preferably only the messages along with a few links at the top.
Occam’s Razor: “Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate”, or just “keep things simple”.
I don’t know why, but when I use IE on XP, the forums are showing up as rather wide. In fact, the posted time column is completely cut off (I have to scroll sideways to see it), and I’m using a 20” monitor. Under Firefox, however, it seems fine. I don’t know if this is just happening to me, but I thought I’d mention it in case.
(Zeroethly, the preview for this post has a broken quote.) Firstly, the thing just failed and I lost my post. Second, the forums do stick out to the side on IE - even on a widescreen monitor I’m forced to scroll, I’d say it’s poking over about 5cm on mine (not that centimetres mean too much in this respect). Third, the smiley window is also broken on at least IE - the attached image is the default view once it’s finished loading the page:
If I didn’t know better, I’d also say the forum isn’t handling image attachments very well.
Okay, I set the forum width to 800 pixels, which works for me but may be too wide for some of you. If I could get some feedback on this, that would be great.
I’ll also try playing with the sidebar to see if I can make a way to minimize it, and then scoot the entire forum over. It’ll be much like the headlines/summaries section of the main page.
Okay, I set the forum width to 800 pixels, which works for me but may be too wide for some of you. If I could get some feedback on this, that would be great.
To be honest? I can’t see any difference at all. *Blames IE*
Okay, I set the forum width to 800 pixels, which works for me but may be too wide for some of you. If I could get some feedback on this, that would be great.
I’ll also try playing with the sidebar to see if I can make a way to minimize it, and then scoot the entire forum over. It’ll be much like the headlines/summaries section of the main page.
Yes, too wide. Is there a way to make it variable width up to 800 pixels, and then no wider?
Yep, I even have a javascript to move Safari to the upper left corner, maximize its height and set the width to 800 pixels.
The best thing to do for the designers here is to minimize or preferably remove the sidebar, and then let the width of the messages change with the browser width, if not just optimizing the pages for W=800.
That’s because the cookie is set for http://www.dtgeeks.com, not dtgeeks.com. It was the same on the old forum, too. I’m currently trying to figure out how to redirect from dtgeeks.com to http://www.dtgeeks.com, so if anyone has a suggestion I’m all ears.
That’s because the cookie is set for http://www.dtgeeks.com, not dtgeeks.com. It was the same on the old forum, too. I’m currently trying to figure out how to redirect from dtgeeks.com to http://www.dtgeeks.com, so if anyone has a suggestion I’m all ears.
That’s because the cookie is set for http://www.dtgeeks.com, not dtgeeks.com. It was the same on the old forum, too. I’m currently trying to figure out how to redirect from dtgeeks.com to http://www.dtgeeks.com, so if anyone has a suggestion I’m all ears.
