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Quote from: Colin

Quote from: maranello Oh, and the old logo still appears when logged on to Squirrelmail. can you try forcing a refresh on your browser?

That worked!

[#2]

Would any of the work going on have anything to do with Community (and home page as it happens) logons being rather hit or miss lately, sometimes the user name and password are all pre-filled in (remembered, as I thought I'd set it) sometimes they're blank? doesn't seem to any particular pattern to it, been going on for the last month or so. Thought for a while, it might have something to do with CCleaner clearing the details after use, but I'm reasonably sure this is not the case.

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I think the new look is utterly horrible.  If you were an ISP for under fives I would probably understand but I would suspect most of your customers are adults.  Please go back to the old look as it was much better or, at least, drop the pink "barbie" look. 

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Hmm, I wouldn't have associated the site with Barbie - the colours are very different!
Barbie is a much paler pink colour, the current colour used by Plusnet is much darker.

[#5]

I wonder if a poll of like the new look or not would be appropriate. Just to be self defeating, I'm aware that the take up of poll's is historically at best rather low.
Personally, as I said when I posted in this the first time, I have no problem (and still don't) with the community look, the colours on my monitor are fine, and very readable, I don't know whether it was designed that way (take a bow if it was) but, my situation is strongly back lit from a window behind me, causing a lot of reflections during daylight hours, I have no trouble reading anything on the screen at all, whereas I used to with the old scheme.
No its just the plusnet home pages I have reservations about, and lean to agreeing with those who point out the childish/adult differences.
But I do find the use of lower case first letters slightly offensive though, which oddly you don't use in the links!! I realise its the modern way, but I don't have to like it, and you don't have to follow this particular trend.

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Well I like it .. it is a breath of fresh air ..away from the bland sterile corporate image. It’s friendly and not intimidating. It’s clear and not confusing.  The colour is a sort of deep maroon .. not pink.

[#7]

Quote from: Whiffler

An aside on the new colour scheme... Many years ago, when I was a small boy, we had an expression we used in the family to describe any unusual looking colour - "sky-blue pink". The first roll-over a link on the portal pages yesterday morning brought the memories flooding back to me... Cliff

I wanted to say how much I liked the 'roll-over' colour, but I didn't know what to call it....  Thanks, Whiffler!  Sky-blue-pink is just right.
Any chance we could have an optional CSS to reverse out the Magenta with the Sky-blue-pink -- make the latter the main colour and the Magenta the roll-over? 

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Quote from: moemoff

Well I like it .. it is a breath of fresh air ..away from the bland sterile corporate image. It’s friendly and not intimidating. It’s clear and not confusing.  The colour is a sort of deep maroon .. not pink.

Definitely looks like magenta from here (both Firefox and IE).  Tones well with the subtle colour contrasts down the bottom.  Not sure about the retained brown-and-cream for the quotes, maybe something could be found that tones a little more gently /effectively with the magenta? Perhaps something like the colouring of the 'plusnet' letters on the logo? and just some shade of grey instead of the cream, on double quotes.
Realise it's a 'work in progress' in any case.  Magenta is good but it does need a bit of dimming-down of associated colours, to whatever degree.  The portal home page looks wonderfully clear / integrated though.

Edit - later - how come 'plusnet' with a small P, changes itself to a capital P when it's posted?  Surely  p l u s n e t  is more accurate, now?

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Quote from: Penny

Not sure about the retained brown-and-cream for the quotes, maybe something could be found that tones a little more gently /effectively with the magenta?

This is being fixed with the increase in the quote font sizes, it will be inline with the brand colours (If i recall it will be the blue from the brand guidelines) Hopefully both of these will get rolled tomorrow at some point.
Thanks
Jonny

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Quote from: petlew

But I do find the use of lower case first letters slightly offensive though, which oddly you don't use in the links!! I realise its the modern way, but I don't have to like it, and you don't have to follow this particular trend.

Although I am not offended by the use of lower case initial letters I don't like the tend. But consistency is important so, surely the banner on the home page should say 'Welcome to Plusnet' or even 'welcome to Plusnet'?
Anyway, old or new look, I am more concerned that the level of service is as excellent as always. Rather have great feedback and support in these fora than a really 'cool' site that hides a support staff's incompetence 
Great job, Plusnet or Plusnet or...
Edit: Strange but no matter how I type Plusnet - lower case p or upper case p - it is always changed to uppercase in this forum. This makes my message above seem nonsense!
So it should read 'Welcome to (lower p)lusnet' or 'welcome to (lower p)lusnet. lol
And
Great job, Plusnet or (lower p)lusnet...

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We should all refer to it as pulsnet to avoid that swear filter meddling with it.

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And on that note. i've tinkered with said filtering.. to make sure that (P)lusnet turn into plusnet...
I will slap said team with a rather large wet trout later :mand:

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Thanks. Messed up my previous post again 
Don't think I'll change it again

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Sorry about that.. but you know how I like to keep you all happy... 

[#15]

Quote from: Neil

One of the reasons we didn't use blue was that so many of our competitors (and our owner!) use blue predominantly in their brand. Blue also can look very cold when used with white.

There's probably a good reason for that somewhere (like it works?).  It can look cold with white, but I think that's down to the shade of blue.
I would point out that through a remote logmein session to a PC with this site open, the colours were extremely garish - I know this is due to the limitations of the connection, and that 256 colour displays are almost dead, but it is something to be aware of.