New Community Site Skin - Testing/Feedback
Quote from: Colin ... we've been working on doing a redesign of the Community Site over the last few months ... and are now able to make it available on our Beta site for people to test.
... If you have any comments to make, please append them to this tread.
A qualified "yes" but the sea-of-white factor has to some degree been retained because there are no bar/line separators between aspects across the page. There are dotted lines horizontally between different forums (but no downward lines) and thin lines horizontally between posts and slight grey-to-white variations vertically on the 'unread topics' page, but the 'sea of white' is still the over-riding factor (though the coloured background is an improvement). Sorry 😕
Screenshot below of what was actually visible on my screen (one step up from 800x600) for the unread posts page (the header bar etc. and the items relating to the login have been removed from the top):
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It all looks a bit anaemic / undefined (quite apart from the odd column presentation which is presumably sort-able, and the fact that some of the wording went off the right hand side of the screen).
Sorry guys as I know a lot of work has gone into this, but no doubt most of the practical stuff at least, is fixable.
Regards,
Penny.
Moderators note by Roger (rogerloxton) Image converted to link as it was stretching the screen
Penny,
The strange column widths were because I had changed my display name from jelv to howtomakeyourselfveryupopularintheforums (I did have it even longer than that at one stage). I have commented earlier in this topic that a limit on the name may be necessary.
I have now changed my name back so the display is back to normal.
The strange column widths were because I had changed my display name from jelv to howtomakeyourselfveryupopularintheforums (I did have it even longer than that at one stage). I have commented earlier in this topic that a limit on the name may be necessary.
I have now changed my name back so the display is back to normal.
Quote from: jelv The strange column widths were because I had changed my display name from jelv to howtomakeyourselfveryupopularintheforums
Thanks for the clarification
sorry but I hadn't seen the earlier post, don't get here much these days due to other commitments and also it (the current version) still does my eyes in so any time I have spare tends to be spent at PUG rather than here.The 'new CommSite layout' is better in some ways but the lack of clear separators sideways or upwards/downwards on most of the types of pages is still (to me at least) visually de-stabilising. Fair enough if that's what everyone else prefers 😕 but to me it's a marked disincentive to visit.
Maybe there's a subtle hint there somewhere
I wouldn't have commented at all save that I put forward so many different types of alternatives, at the outset, and I'd hoped I guess that the need for visual differentiation and separation (by some visitors, at any rate) might have been more definitely met in the 'new layout'.I guess whatever's done is never going to suit absolutely everyone, so not much point in commenting further really, for me, anyway 😕
Regards,
Penny.
Quote from: jelv I think you need to limit the length of a display name!
This topic might help:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=104702.0
I was wondering if more appeared on a longer quote, but
is the full image. I can't figure out what it's relevance is either. 
is the full image. I can't figure out what it's relevance is either.
Is there any way you could impose a filter on the community news stories on the front page so that the number of EOD's is limited to a maximum of say three. There will be times when anything other than EOD is buried way down the page. How about having a flag you can set on items to say that they should not appear in that box and having something to set the flag on the oldest EOD when you publish a new one?
