Feedback : New design for the Board

[Domski]

I think the Titanic has hit the iceburg again and the ship is going under... the question is do we abandon ship or stay with the captain?

Or reach for the gin & tonic and the ice pick

Dom

[Simon Lloyd]

I think the Titanic has hit the iceburg again and the ship is going under... the question is do we abandon ship or stay with the captain?

Don't stay with the captain but do stay with the ship as she is sound and carried you a long way, so if nothing else do it for her!

Or reach for the gin & tonic and the ice pick

Dom

now thats an ATTRACTION that could prove FATAL

[darkyam]

How do we go about appointing a new captain for our ship?

[StephenR]

Does anyone know how this site is run? Who pays, who does the work? Is Vaibhav the Big Boss responsible for everything?

[broro183]

Yep, I agree. The ship is sound :-)

[Simon Lloyd]

How do we go about appointing a new captain for our ship?

RoyUk is admin, however he doesn't have full autonomy (whic is a shame), but then again Roy has plenty enough to do in life outside the forum, - to be honest you/we/members can shout all we want but without a dedicated all singing all dancing captain we either have to lump it or vote with our mouse and click elsewhere for a while

Does anyone know how this site is run? Who pays, who does the work? Is Vaibhav the Big Boss responsible for everything?

Answer: Vaibhav owns the site, his employees administer all the cosmetics and physical changes and RoyUk is admin but with not enough power/flexibility or creative say, below that (not below in a lesser sense ) are the mods who are very, very frustrated as they have been asking for and discussing changes for the good of the forum for years but hardly ever getting a response.

Yep, I agree. The ship is sound :-)

I've been here at EF for 6 years, you only stay at a place that long if it has something, i know i own my own similar site but i love it here and always have done - stick with it

[Vaibhav]

Hi Vaibhav,

On the navigation menu bar, when the cursor hovers over a menu "box", the text changes colour as part of the hover action, but the link doesn't become available until the cursor hovers over the box lettering.

With the initial box text colour change, a user gets the impression that it is possible to click to the link, however nothing happens. This is a little frustrating. Would it be possible to allow the link to become active as part of the initial box hover?

Cheers,

Good Suggestion, Actually we are using text and not images, and the link is on the text but i will talk to the css coders to see if we can have link on the complete box.

In the particular instance, I'd say the issue was more about competence than passion. How about bringing Simon back, who was both?

Simon resigned voluntarily and he is free to join back if he wants to.

I think it's good to have a log out link, but it's a little hard to read with the white font. Also, I think it might look a little cleaner on the right side of the bar or, perhaps better still, in that little box at the top that tells us how many messages we have.

We did try to have it there while we were implementing the design but it looked kinda out of place, if you want we can place it there and every one can feedback on it.

Affirmative.

Bar breaks into 2, 3 or more (depending on how you squeeze your window) in all possible browsers in all possible universes.

Attachment 63224

It has to do something with the liquid design we have done, will get it corrected asap.

Vai, the code font issue is still not sorted. Apart from the fact that it is still proportional (in IE, FF and Safari), there is also a difference in size (in FF), even within the same thread. For example in this thread, http://www.excelforum.com/excel-gene...om-1-cell.html
the first code box has much smaller font than the second code box when viewed with Firefox. If you don't have FF, here's a screenshot.

Yes, looks like they tested it with only one code box. Thanks teylyn, i ll get it corrected.

Probably mentioned already...If so, then this is an emphasis post.

Moderator listed in the Currently Active Users used to be bolded.. and that was so that all users can quickly identify which mods were on line, in case they needed any immediate assistance, etc...

Would be nice to have that re-instated...

Note: I am using Firefox.. not sure if IE or Chrome are the same results....

This will be corrected right away.

Does anyone know how this site is run? Who pays, who does the work? Is Vaibhav the Big Boss responsible for everything?

Stephen, Site is run by the members who help each other and the moderators and admins who make sure there is proper decorum.

As far as technical stuff is concerned I use my inhouse team and also hire companies to do core changes if required.

We have dual xenon servers with 8 gigs of ram which are paid off by the adverts which are shown to the unregistered members.

[Simon Lloyd]

Good Suggestion, Actually we are using text and not images, and the link is on the text but i will talk to the css coders to see if we can have link on the complete box.



Simon resigned voluntarily and he is free to join back if he wants to.

I did resign but you really dont want the circumstances aired here Vai, probably best not discussed in public

Stephen, Site is run by the members who help each other and the moderators and admins who make sure there is proper decorum.

As far as technical stuff is concerned I use my inhouse team and also hire companies to do core changes if required.

We have dual xenon servers with 8 gigs of ram which are paid off by the adverts which are shown to the unregistered members.

If the members really DO run the forum then surely they should get everything they ask for?

Good Suggestion, Actually we are using text and not images, and the link is on the text but i will talk to the css coders to see if we can have link on the complete box.

perhaps either have the link and box hover the same colour or use html button which is seen by search engines as text anyway so no SEO loss

[Ron Coderre]

I can pretty much cope with any kind of change as long as there is real purpose behind the change.

Now, apart from having to wear dark glasses to view the forum, Here's what really annoys me:
What's the point of forcing posters to use CODE tags if the font isn't really any different
from the normal font? (in IE8, at least). The "new" CODE font uses proportional...NOT fixed spacing.

Example:
using these lists of 10 character strings, that begin with 3 spaces (that are not displaying):
123abc7890 ABC45DEfg8
..3456abcd 123abc7890
ABC45DEfg8 ..3456abcd

When enclosed in CODE tags, they should ALL be the same length,
like this (using the courier font). Notice, however, that the leading spaces are absent!:
123abc7890 ABC45DEfg8
..3456abcd 123abc7890
ABC45DEfg8 ..3456abcd

But, using CODE tags:

   123abc7890   ABC45DEfg8
   ..3456abcd   123abc7890
   ABC45DEfg8   ..3456abcd

The only thing the CODE tags do correctly is display the leading 3 spaces.
The colums do NOT line up!

Without a fixed font in CODE tags, actual code drifts left and right, depending on the
content. Also, CODE tags used to be the perfect vehicle to display multi-column lists and
formulas, due to the tidy way it presented them. Not any more.

The only way I finally got the proper presentation was to use a combination of CODE tags
and a courier font:

   123abc7890   ABC45DEfg8
   ..3456abcd   123abc7890
   ABC45DEfg8   ..3456abcd

I'd like to see this fix expedited.

[NBVC]

Originally Posted by NBVC
Probably mentioned already...If so, then this is an emphasis post.

Moderator listed in the Currently Active Users used to be bolded.. and that was so that all users can quickly identify which mods were on line, in case they needed any immediate assistance, etc...

Would be nice to have that re-instated...

Note: I am using Firefox.. not sure if IE or Chrome are the same results....

Originally Posted by Vaibhav: This will be corrected right away

.

I still have not this change in Firefox....

[Paul]

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I still have not this change in Firefox....

It is now bold in IE8 at least, but it's bold blue. It barely stands out. Getting picky, but can you make it orange or red or green or something that stands out (such that even if it's not bold, it can be seen by everyone across browsers)?

[teylyn]

and just in case you've missed the comments in posts 44, 127, 131, 132, 133, 169, 188, 190, 204 or you feel nobody has mentioned it before:
Make the Code font monospace, please
Make the Code font monospace, please
Make the Code font monospace, please
Make the Code font monospace, please
Make the Code font monospace, please
Make the Code font monospace, please
Make the Code font monospace, please

[teylyn]

two point five days later:

=REPT("make code font monospace, please, in all browsers.",100)

[DonkeyOte]

Perhaps worth investigating the functional poor performance of the board as whole ?

This way, irrespective of how the page renders aesthetically, it does actually render...

[Simon Lloyd]

two point five days later:

=REPT("make code font monospace, please, in all browsers.",100)

Isn't the "....point five" relative?

Some fixes have happened in the background, the moderator bolding and colour is done, the menubar is smaller and now doesn't fold on to two lines when reducing the window size (you just lose whichever buttons are to the left of the menubar)