Questions and comments about the new look to the forum.

[Steve Ashton]

I would like to thank everyone for their comments, suggestions and concerns so far.

I will be bringing all of the comments about errors in the program to the attention of Chris, but he is in the UK and will not be available for a few hours yet.

Those comments and suggestions about the look of the forum will get fixed. I too agree that the site is bright. We have gone through four changes, darkening it each time. We are trying to find a happy medium between a stark white sheet and a black gaming site. The colors of the windows and panes and blocks of the site are fairly easy to change, but after looking at this site for hours each day and trying different combinations of colors and tints it becomes hard to tell when you get it just right. Each monitor is slightly different. I've looked at the site on seven monitors and I thought we had it.

I thank those who voiced concerns. All concerns are valid and valued. Thank you for having the conviction to state them.

[bricelythgoe]

Right now is perfect!

I would like to thank everyone for their comments, suggestions and concerns so far.

I will be bringing all of the comments about errors in the program to the attention of Chris, but he is in the UK and will not be available for a few hours yet.

Those comments and suggestions about the look of the forum will get fixed. I too agree that the site is bright. We have gone through four changes, darkening it each time. We are trying to find a happy medium between a stark white sheet and a black gaming site. The colors of the windows and panes and blocks of the site are fairly easy to change, but after looking at this site for hours each day and trying different combinations of colors and tints it becomes hard to tell when you get it just right. Each monitor is slightly different. I've looked at the site on seven monitors and I thought we had it.

I thank those who voiced concerns. All concerns are valid and valued. Thank you for having the conviction to state them.

[CDNSushi]

Right now is perfect!

I agree -- the current incarnation (screenshot below) is to-date, the most legible for me (while still missing the tartan).

But I still have a hard time understanding and differentiating between threads I've read and ones I haven't. Some a are blue/bold, others are black/bold, others are not bold...

[Steve Ashton]

Please be patient. We are making changes right now.
As you can see the screens are easier to read.
We are trying to get the Tartan back but it is giving us a problem.
the place on the forum where the Tartan was displayed was one of those add-on things that was causing a conflict. We had to remove it.

Please notice that the size of the forum and the problem with the Top Logo Banner stretching out to the right has been fixed.

When we had the new forum in beta testing we vetted it through 8 people and the seven Forum Moderators. Many of the people who reviewed the site used it exclusively for a week. No one mentioned the problem with reading the text so the comments here caught us off guard. We didn't think we had a problem. We thought it was pretty good based on the reviews we had received.

I'm sorry I haven't been around to answer some of your comments. I have been in almost constant communication with Chris getting the changes done.

If anyone is still having problems with the size of any of the block on the page not being the correct size please post here.

[fluter]

Thanks to Steve, all the staff, and the programmer behind the curtain! Things are coming along. I happen to like black, black letters on a background of #efeffe; but that my be too light for some folk.


I most often use a Windoze laptop (Win XP, Firefox 3.5) at 1024x768 or sometimes 1280x1024 resolution.

I do still see the fourth ad in the horizontal strip up top, partly off the right side. The material in the right margin is now nicely framed (usually).

In the "disoriented" thread in General Kilt Talk, I saw the too-wide symptom on the page with the large image. that is fixed, perhaps by resizing the image??? I don't see an indication that the post itself was edited.

Now at post #42 from Jerry,there is another biggish 800x600 screen-shot, and that page has the marginal material pushed off the screen. This time, the messages themselves are not "too wide to read." That may just be a lucky choice of image size, since I'm at 1024 pixels right now.