Where's the link to the forum rules?
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I have been having one problem, but I don't think it's the new design and I don't know where else to post it. I am not receiving instant email notifications of the threads to which I am subscribed. I'm sure it's some setting somewhere, but can't find it. Please help.
Blane, click User CP, then Edit Options in the left hand navigation, then in the Messaging & Notification panel use the options in the dropdown list for "Default thread subscription mode"
teylyn
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Avoid pie charts with more than two data points. Why? See here (pdf, 559 kb). The only acceptable pie chart is here.
The option is set to "Instant email notification" :-(
It seems to only appear in the "Forum Jump" list in the lower right corner.Originally Posted by shg
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Please consider:
- Thanking those who helped you. Click the reputation icon
in the contributor's post and add Reputation.
- Cleaning up when you're done. Mark your thread [SOLVED] if you received your answer.
I like the new site! Thanks for all the hard work!
Only thing I can think of is the [SOLVED] process. Not sure if you have been to Accessforums.net but they have a similar (to your old site) interface. However, their [SOLVED] process is more intuitive, it actually lists as an option in the thread tools, no need to go to advanced edit, etc. Or maybe this changed and I missed it.
Just a thought.
Thanks for the great site!
Cheers,
Matt
On the Home page.
But I've tried to find it aswell... It should be on the blue line above...
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For those interested, you can take a look in the FAQs but then all links appear as text, however you can find the forum rules here http://www.excelforum.com/forum-rule...rum-rules.html
The member's Excel version no longer shows in the post header. This is essential information to provide solutions that may differ between the Excel versions.
The board used to show the last time I was active before the current session. This info now no longer shows.
The forum statistics to the left are useless with the views New Posts and Today's Posts. They don't provide any information and just take away valuable screen real estate.
The all bold text in the posts in Internet Explorer is counter-productive. Any previous emphasis with bolding no longer shows, see for example the Forum Rules. Bold can no longer be used to emphasize a word. The post font looks fine in Firefox, bolding is possible, although the signature text is very gray and weak.
These cross-browser differences should not happen.
Links in a post are hard to recognise. They are a bit paler than the normal text, and only come up in color upon mouse hover. As such they are easily overlooked. Links should be recognizable by different color, like blue, and it won't hurt to underline them for extra emphasis.
Last edited by teylyn; 01-12-2010 at 08:25 PM.
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Concur with T on all points.
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Take a look at one of our "sister" site pages: http://www.exceltip.com/training.php...rea=consulting
Can you see anything?... No sure how much business that's going to lure...
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It must be night time there lol!
Well, while we're suggesting changes, I've never really cared for the Excel General forum showing that it has unread posts when I've read all the posts in it and the unread posts are really in the Excel - New User forum. Same for Programming and Worksheet Functions (also, why is Worksheet Functions part of Programming and not General?), and the various forums under Miscellaneous. I understand it on the home page where you only show the six main forums for Excel, but could we change this for http://www.excelforum.com/microsoft-...el-help-forum/?
Attached three screenshots of the same screen taken with different browsers
- Firefox
- Internet Explorer 8
- Safari (for Windows)
Can someone please go to the testing forum and snap the "testing" post by scrunch with Chrome? I don't want to install it just for that one thing.
See how some browsers have all bold text in the post, Firefox correctly shows normal and bold text.
Note how the code box has fixed width font (or at least a serif with fairly close to fixed width) in IE8 and Safari, and Firefox has something that looks like Arial.
See how hard it is to distinguish between the text and the links. In all three versions.
The CSS designer does not deserve the name. Luckily enough, we don't need to shoot the tester, because it's quite apparent that nobody did any testing.
Banana skin.
Open each attachment in a separate tab and then click back and forwards to compare ....
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Chrome (Updated)
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