New Community Site Skin - Testing/Feedback

[#1]

Quote from: James_H

The new skin doesn't work on an 800x600 resolution monitor!

It's designed for the majority of users, which according to our stats, is 1024x768 and above. We're aware it's not quite right in 800x600 and we are looking at improving the experience at that size.

[#2]

Quote from: James_H

I have to say, the problems you point out Gary are all caused by the resolution being set to 800x600 on your computer.

Yep I agree with you. 

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This seems a little strange to me, as I thought that was the standard used when constructing accessible websites, but I confess I'm quite out of touch with what the 'norms' might be.

You are not out of touch. 
But F9 / PlusNet is out of touch. 

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I do think all of the points you've raised can be condensed into a single bug: The new skin doesn't work on an 800x600 resolution monitor!

Your bang on, 

[#3]

On the Bottom of Replies to your Posts the text is distorted.

[#4]

Apart from some overly large text (which is being worked on), I can't actually see many other problems at 800*600 in IE or Firefox.
Can you post specific links to pages which look weird?

[#5]

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Can you post specific links to pages which look weird?

Ok here gos:
Replies to your Posts.
Show the last posts of this person.
Show general statistics for this member.
Forum Profile Information.
Notifications and Email
My Messages.
Profile.
Calendar.
Blogs.
I think that, that is enough for you to be fixing for the time bean!

[#6]

From a quick look (as my eyes are getting sore staring at 800x600):

Quote from: Midnight

Replies to your Posts

Looks fine here...

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Show the last posts of this person.

Improving... but needs more work

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Show general statistics for this member

Definetly broken

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Forum Profile Information.

Definetly broken

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Notifications and Email

Looks fine to me?

Quote from: Midnight

My Messages

Could do with a couple of minor tweaks, but looks ok to me.

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Profile

Looks fine to me?

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Calendar

Looks fine to me as well?

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Blogs

Minor issue with the content of a blog post and the advert, but other than that it seems to be ok?

[#7]

Quote from: Colin

Looks fine here

Mmmmmmmm well look at this!

[#8]

Quote from: Colin

Looks fine to me?

Owe really well have a look at this!

[#9]

Colin
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1985
Any use?

[#10]

No, but it's reminded me that I've got Web Developer Toolbar installed which lets me resize. I've also been looking in IE

[#11]

Quote from: Midnight

Owe really well have a look at this!

That looks fine to me?

[#12]

Quote from: Midnight

Mmmmmmmm well look at this!

I'll give you that, but it's wrong at 1024*468 too, so I don't think it's just 800x600

[#13]

Ah! sorry guys, I hadn't been keeping track of this conversation today. I've been updating the 'recent posts' & 'replies to your posts' pages today so you've been talking about a moving target hence why some pages looked odd to some folks and fine to others later on.
I reckon those two pages should be ok on any resolution now.
We're going to add a minimum width to the main content area so that if you make the windows really narrow it doesn't squish the content into a vertical line.
It's true the template doesn't look great at 800x600 but it's still fairly straightforward to use, right?
Thanks for the list of pages that need looking at, Gary. I'll get to those tomorrow.

[#14]

Quote from: Colin

I'll give you that, but it's wrong at 1024*468 too, so I don't think it's just 800x600

I think I've fixed this now... no, silly me, forgot about IE and now it looks like I've got it in IE too.

[#15]

Minimum width is probably the solution to the 800x600 problems which can't be fixed - the user will get a horizontal scroll bar.
I don't think a lot of effort is warranted on the 800x600 resolution; sign up to your local Freecycle group and there's always people giving away 17" monitors that will otherwise go to the tip and I've seen 19 & 21's for free. Not that many people would find the standard fonts too small at 1024x768 on a 17" monitor.