New Community Site Skin - Testing/Feedback
Hello Guys and Gals,
Right, as some people may know, we've been working on doing a redesign of the Community Site over the last few months. We've had a final push on it over the last week, and are now able to make it available on our Beta site for people to test.
If you wish to take a look at the skin, then head over to http://community.beta.plus.net/ and you can have a look. (Note that not all the accounts that exist on this site are avilable on the Beta site so you may not be able to sign in).
If you have any comments to make, please append them to this tread.
It's Friday afternoon, and we're all going home for the weekend so we might not respond until Monday though
Colin
Right, as some people may know, we've been working on doing a redesign of the Community Site over the last few months. We've had a final push on it over the last week, and are now able to make it available on our Beta site for people to test.
If you wish to take a look at the skin, then head over to http://community.beta.plus.net/ and you can have a look. (Note that not all the accounts that exist on this site are avilable on the Beta site so you may not be able to sign in).
If you have any comments to make, please append them to this tread.
It's Friday afternoon, and we're all going home for the weekend so we might not respond until Monday though
Colin
When logged into the site, and navigating to the Forums, you get a "Login" tab at the top. 
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Yeah we're working on that at the moment i don't think the login/logout in the top bar on the forums has actually any functionality to it at the moment ie. its static HTML code 
I've just had to request a new password as I'm not sure which one it picked up. I received the email, clicked the link which took me to the page to set a new password. Entered twice, clicked save and got a screen with just:
The password had been saved.
File: /local/www/community/forum/Themes/plusnet-new/Login.template.php (main_above sub template - eval?)
Line: 49
The password had been saved.
The clickable 
icon is rather wishy washy - I bet on some screens it won't be visible.
In the index pages of the forum the subject column is narrow and causing a lot of line breaks (I've been trying resizing the browser window to see how it behaves). Some of the other columns look as if they could be reduced (particularly the first two).
When starting a new topic, what is the box under the subject for?
I think you need to limit the length of a display name!
icon is rather wishy washy - I bet on some screens it won't be visible.In the index pages of the forum the subject column is narrow and causing a lot of line breaks (I've been trying resizing the browser window to see how it behaves). Some of the other columns look as if they could be reduced (particularly the first two).
When starting a new topic, what is the box under the subject for?
I think you need to limit the length of a display name!
I'm not keen on some of the attributes e.g.
http://community.beta.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,1909.msg469524.html#msg469524
The quoted text has a thick line line to say that it's a quote - but doesn't say who it's quoting.
The .sig has a scrollbar (even though there is no scrollable content in the .sig).
I still think the body font is either a bit small and/or lack of contrast where you have grey on pale blue.
http://community.beta.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,1909.msg469524.html#msg469524
The quoted text has a thick line line to say that it's a quote - but doesn't say who it's quoting.
The .sig has a scrollbar (even though there is no scrollable content in the .sig).
I still think the body font is either a bit small and/or lack of contrast where you have grey on pale blue.
Quote I'm not keen on some of the attributes e.g.
http://community.beta.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,1909.msg469524.html#msg469524
The quoted text has a thick line line to say that it's a quote - but doesn't say who it's quoting.
That's because the poster didn't include the "author= etc" in the quote. Here's the same post on here:
http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,1909.msg469524.html#msg469524
So I see - but I still think the beta isn't quite there yet though.
The Beta post takes about 11cm of vertical space, and only 8 cm on the current version - and the "old" version is also more readable.
The Beta post takes about 11cm of vertical space, and only 8 cm on the current version - and the "old" version is also more readable.
There's a big gap between the end of the post and the line above the signature. In that you have Last Edit information (if present), Report to Moderator, IP Logged and if it is one of your own posts, the Quick Edit icon. I can't see why the quick edit icon has to be on a line on it's own and couldn't be on the same line aas the other items (that could be done on this version as well).
The other problem with that post (you can see it if you quote it) is that it has a number of blank lines at the end of the post which makes it appear worse. I would have thought stripping trialling blank lines would be a good idea. That applies to this version as well...
The other problem with that post (you can see it if you quote it) is that it has a number of blank lines at the end of the post which makes it appear worse. I would have thought stripping trialling blank lines would be a good idea. That applies to this version as well...
