New Site Feedback And Issues

[John Fenna]

Love the new site but some posts are trimmed on the RHS and in PMs the adverts sit on top of the message and obscure the "Reply" button.
Surely only a minor tweak is needed....
John

 

[JonnyP]

Fab new site, well done guys :You_Rock_
I do agree with some of the others about the white background though

 

[swyn]

I willhave to be careful here as the first piece of writing is clipped off on the left hand side.
For example; The 'Iwill' and half the h of have is not visible.
Swyn

Mac mini system here.

 

[swyn]

Also when scrolling down the page shifts to the left loosing the first six letters of type(as I wrote earlier) and when scrolling up it shifts back to centre.??????
The edit is not working either.
Swyn.

 

[tomtom]

Love the new look Tony - though i'm starting to get a headache as the white background seems SOOOO bright now!

I agree, once you get below the bottom of the menu and the ads it is very bright. The off white colour which backs the menu might work!

 

[falcon]

Must have been hard work...well done. I agree with the comments about white background.

I'm trying to post a comment on the blog but, even though I'm logged in, I get a message saying I'm not. Then when I changed to "New posts" I had to relog in again......maybe it's just me as a Luddite......

 

[Steve27752]

Tony,
The new site is working well.
Is it possible to view the first post in a subject first rather than the most recent and then having to scroll down to the first post?
Steve

 

[wanderinstar]

Have just tried to send an email and I get a message saying you can only send 1 email every 60 sec. This is the first one I have sent. I waited 60 secs and tried again, same message.

 

[Steve27752]

I have to log on every time I come back to the website. Even though I clicked `remember me`!
Steve

 

[Singeblister]

Its very pro looking Tony , not sure I like the adds in the forum section though , also it seems a bit bright, but other than that well done great job

 

[AndyW]

Existing links seem to be a problem.

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21303

There is a link in this thread "that doesn't exist" but at a guess it's because the link has changed and it now has "forum" rather than "community" in it ( I went to it manually).

Andy

 

[Tony]

Thanks for the feedback guys, it's all getting logged and it will get sorted. When we've got the time we'll have a play with the background colour

 

[AndyW]

Tony,

Thanks for all the hard work that must have gone into this :You_Rock_

Thanks also for putting the background colour on the list as it definitely gets a bit much!

Andy

 

[Martyn]

My observations....

I cant get all of the width on my screen on a 1024 pixel width monitor - that's bad. The vast majority of monitors are set at 1024 width, which means a lot of people are going to experience "clipping" or horizontal scrolling. Once you get past the first few inches, which look very "crammed in" then the forum is flanked either side by a lot of white space. It's a questionable use of screen space. If the sponsor links on the right, were moved to the left and under the main menu, they would get exactly the same number of hits, but loosing the right column would make the forum posts wider and eliminate the clipping issue and the crammed appearance. The lack of cell padding alsom makes the crammed appearance worse. You have absolutely no cell padding on the right or left menus, which means that the links/content start right at the very edge of the screen. This is visually awful to be honest, I suspect you have done it in order to squeeze in the right menu. Your choice, but it looks bad.

 

[Martyn]

Oh, and can we have the vB quick links menu in the header please? Among other things, it has the "todays posts" link and edite buddy list etc.

 

[Bisamratte]

I really like the new look , well done:You_Rock_
but....

I have just been reading red's images from Hampshire thread and I can only see the first half of the page, the rest of the page just gets cut off and is plane white
Has anybody else got this problem or is it just me?

Cheers

Andy

 

[scanker]

The new posts icon next to a thread doesn't seem to take you down the thread to the new posts, if you know what I mean?

 

[scanker]

I really like the new look , well done:You_Rock_
but....

I have just been reading red's images from Hampshire thread and I can only see the first half of the page, the rest of the page just gets cut off and is plane white
Has anybody else got this problem or is it just me?

Cheers

Andy

I'm just experiencing that too. With the post I just made above - my signature is half obscured by the footer and I don't have edit and reply buttons (or I would have edited my post to add this!)

But it seems OK now.

Lastly, when I click on the new posts icon for the "wellies or not?" thread it says thread id not valid.

 

[Martyn]

Also, at 800 pixels wide, there is loads of scrolling. I know a lot of folks now use 1024, but a lot are still on 800. It's a bold choice for a commercial site to write off the 800 pixel users. At hobbyist level you can get away with it because you are not trying to generate revenue, but for a commercial site, I would've gone for a design which didnt alienate the 800 pixel screen users....

At 800 pixels the screen looks like this...

Moving the sponsor links on the right, to the left and under the main menu wold allow you to use cell padding with good effect, open up the top a bit making it morte visually appealing and remove the need for horizontal scrolling at 800 pixels.

 

[Matt Weir]

Tone,

When I click on the 'go to last post' icon on a main page of a forum it just takes me to the the first post in that forum rather than the lastest post

Edit: A workaround is to change the Thread Display Mode option to 'Linear - newest post first' but not ideal.