I like the new layout with its brighter colours.
Guess it'll take a bit before I find my way fully around again.
Lovely job, Julio and Team!

Nice new layout. But it will take a while to get use to it.

lavender? yick!
the functionality is cool though lord knows we could use a spell checker around here ;)

I too like the new look, I've just sung it's praises at Meeting Spot. I'd like to ask why some members are shown as Registered User, yet others, who joined at a later date are shown as Techspot Member?, it doesn't bother me, I was shown as Enthusiast before, this seems a better idea, is there a new "Ranking Table" now.
I agree with one of the other members, access to spellcheck would be a boon, how about it, Julio & team?....nah, you've done an excellent job as it is, well done!, perhaps later.....?

Maurice :giddy:

I dont think there's a change in the "Ranks". You'll just need to wait until everything is settled.

Nicely done! Bravo guys! :cool:

Sidenote: Maurice was right.....I'm showing up as Registered User now as well. Interesting. No biggy. Not here for the name, just for the friends. :approve:

At one point it seemed a bit laggy but then I noticed it was a problem with the ads once again (the culprit server still seems to be itxt2.us.intellitxt.com).

Other then that, it's nice to rediscover TechSpot.;)

I think its alright.

The icons are a little on the big side on the forum home page. The in thread modes I notice you can change. I'm going to have to play with them for a while until I find one I like best.

I agree with Godataloss about the colors though. I think we need something bolder.

Young & Wild, don't misunderstand, I don't like the term "Rank"....had enough of that in the R.A.F., & I'm not anxious, just curious.

Didou, I too, noticed the lag whilst I was transferred to the site. I can't quite see why one "reply" is included in the e-mail, otherwise, it's growing on me!

Maurice :hotbounce

Too bad it's made for 1024x768 resolution. I liked the flexible old one better. Had less "eye candy" too.

Wow, this looks way different. I think I will like it, but at first it cought me off guard.

The only thing I would suggest changing is putting hte TechSpot OpenBoards Statistics back at the top of the page. Sometimes it's good to see how many members and threads are available at the top of the page. Just my advice. I'm not even sure if it's possible.

I honestly dont like how avatars are above the post now. Takes up way too much room. Needs to be back on the left side. (and it hurts my eyes) :suspiciou

Well I thought that at first, but after visiting several times today I'm beginning to like it better. But Mict is right, it takes up lots of space at lower resolutions.

I like the general look and feel of the new pages, but I agree with Mict that I'd like the rendering to be more flexible. My laptop has no option but be 1024x768.. with Trillian open as a sidebar, that means this page looks really wierd.


AcidOsmosis is having problems with the tables being cut off by the side banners, apparently a CSS issue based on the .jpg he gave me. I dunno if it's stale cache or not.. but it's another issue that comes with static sizing.

One thing I'd personally like to see adjusted would be to make the name banners smaller- With large font names and so forth, it quickly gets to be a long page. I'm not sure if adjusting the time posted page would help, or if maybe moving the instant messenger icons to the side.. it seemed less intrusive when the text flowed beside the name. I could be a minority on that, and I'll live if it's not touched at all.

It looks to me as if most of us will come round to the new look, it's just a case of getting used to it, obviously the technos will see some snags, & no doubt these will be looked at, & adjusted, if at all possible.
Now there are more joining this thread, can I repeat my comment as to why there is now "Techspot User" for some, & "Registered User" for others, seems odd,.....Julio or team, any comments please??

Maurice

Some of the "ranks" did not get transferred properly from the old system. Julio is aware of this and he is working on it, but it is low priority.

I agree with others, that there is an awful waste of "real estate" space with the new layout. The former one was definitely better, with the name/avatar/rank/posts at the left.

You will want to know I have followed your feedback pretty closely :).

I will appreciate if you report any problems you may have here or if you want to state your opinion on how things could be better. Yesterday I worked 12 hours straight (from 11pm to 11am) in the move, luckily things went pretty smooth, just that there was a ton of stuff that needed to be done. Now I'm on the 6th hour, second day, still polishing and adding things here and there.

Rather than finding bugs in the forum software which is more unlilkely since vB3 is a very solid package, you may find some in the site implementation (browser compatibility... etc), not only in the forums but in the rest of the site, news and downloads sections belong to the new CMS.

Soon I will be putting up a form so that you can submit news & downloads suggestions, a new frontpage poll that doesn't need registration should be going up soon... update some of the forum colors (current is vB default merged with TS layout)... as you can see, plenty to be done. I'll keep in touch.


Oh and before I forget, because the news comments no longer belong to the forums, it has become less of a hangout for you, I would appreciate if you can still post there when you feel like it (same vB user, etc.) and encourage other people to continue posting there. Eventually I will find a way to promote those better, too.

Julio, I appreciate you coming forward with info, as I am sure we all do, wow, that is some workload, & overnight[s] too! There were bound to be bugs, I expect you'd have been amazed if there weren't, Rome wasn't built in a day.
Luckily for you & your team, I would think that, looking at the overall improvement, there will be no need to to re-vamp for some considerable time,.....if ever! [I can hear you say "I wish!"]
I think it's a good idea to have a resume of all the posts in the thread, at the base, under the "reply to thread" section, I used to have to remember what different members had said, or print off certain pages, if there was a lot of posts.
Can I make a further observation?, as the column is that much wider, on print-outs, I lose a significate amount from the r/h side, perhaps I do more print-outs than some, but I like to have some hard copy by me for future reference.

Maurice :hotbounce :hotouch:

I still cant get used to the avatars. The site looks a little less professional because of the avatars and large text.

Also, still having problems with the way the page layout. About 10 pixels on the right side of the page is getting cut off and it the rest of the right side shows up on the left edge of the page.

I attached a screenshot of the page showing the problem.

I like the new forum / look.

I did notice that the hide my online status was on by defaultin my profile but
it's showing my on-line status anyway, doesn't bother me.

The Gallery is nowhere to be found. Any information on that ?

Acidomosis, your problem looks somewhat like mine, although I do see the whole of the text, it's only when I print, that I lose some, my guess is that that there are still teething problems, Julio monitors this thread, so he will see your post & screen shots.
I reckon that it will take a little while yet to get everything ship-shape, I was talking to a friend who builds websites for a living, & he reckons that what they have done here, is the equivalent of building about three websites.

Maurice

I have enabled 'similar threads' feature, look for those at the bottom of the pages. I have found that to be extremely useful in the past when looking for information in other sites/forums.

Acid's gonna go ape here, but we've talked about this issue in the IRC channel (http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic13244.html), and amazingly he's the only person that was seeing that issue- other people in the channel had the same builds of software and so forth, didn't see the issue. That doesn't mean it's not there, just our suspicion was on a local problem and not TS per se. Still could be TS.

Now, that being said, it's MY turn to post a found bug that I'm guessing I may be the only one to see. It appears to be JS or CSS related in Firefox. Internet Explorer sees it fine. I hope, to be honest, that people tell me I'm the only one with issues.

If you look at the top, the bar with THread Tools, Search this Thread, and Display Modes does not render properly at all. You click on a drop down. Thread tools displays properly, Search thread is clipped on the right side by an unknown number of pixes. Display modes show highly clipped once. Then if you move off of it and come back, it only displays as a single line. No way you can click something on it (Ironically, the new feature I was most eagre to try!)

Anyone else seeing this, or is it just me? Is it my machine, or TS (And we can all beat Julio with nerf bats until he fixes it?)

My build is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1 :chef:

I only have a problem with "Display modes" which doesn't quite show all of the drag down menu. The two other ones work fine.

In order to use up less real-estate, I wanted to replace my avatar (Guinness pint glass) with a smaller one. Thinking the option would show when I deleted the current one, instead I lost my avatar alltogether and I am not allowed to upload my new one, I can only select from the standard list. Any chance of getting that fixed, please?

Using W2K/SP4 and Firefox 1.0PR (or even IE6) and (my standard) screen resolution of 1024x768, every pull-down menu works fine. Must be either Mozilla 5 or a different resolution.

If you select Print Preview, then print from there, you should get the whole page on your printer, at least I do.

Nope, RBS, Re; printing, that doesn't work with my printer, {Epson 42] Glen of Tailored Systems, a member, I saw him today, & he said go to printer>properties, click "enlarge/reduce", then "fit to page", that didn't work either.
Have you tried printing since the new look? maybe it IS teething troubles, & will be sorted.

Maurice

RBS, I have an image of your old Guinness in My Pictures, [jpeg 67 x 131, 2.51 KB]
If you can tell me how to get it to you, on site, or where ever, perhaps you can downsize it, [Photoshop?] & re-install it as your Avatar, or is it more problematic than that?

Maurice

I agree that the user info with the avatar and the other stuff takes up way to much space...

I think it looks fine myself, otherwise I do believe you can disable "display avatars" in your options if you want.;)

/me doesn't like the new look, but then again I'm a picky bugger who prefers vBulletin 2 over 3.

I like what you guys did! Hahaha, took me awhile to get used to it though. I've been in Hawaii for the past few weeks. :)

I've gotten use to most of it but the space the avatar takes up vertically just seems to be too much.

Still have the same problem as shown in the screenshot. It's not a HUGE deal but it does cut off some things like page numbers (I may/may not be able to go the next page of search results due to that).

Ok, it seems Firefox displays TS a little bit better than IE does. Although I have noticed something..

I am going to have to go with my instinct and say this is not a issue that is coming from my end. I know your saying that you don't have this problem, but I am seeing a large issue on IE (as in the the screenshot in one of my posts above), and I am seeing THIS problem in Firefox PR2. The same area on the right side of the table is being cut off, although LESS than it is in IE. The edges on the left side are rounded off. The edges on the right side are not which leads me to think these two things are connected somehow.

I have attached a screenshot to show what I am seeing in Firefox (PR2 version which is now downloadable from the Firefox website).

Unless it is just supposed to be that way, but I wouldn't think so.

I'm going to play with IE and see if I can figure out any reason why this might be coming from my end though.

Are any of you running Windows XP with SP2? I'm kind of wondering if it may have anything to do with changes made in SP2.

I checked with a number of browsers, all show the left side with rounded corners, and the right side with straight corners, so that must be the design.

What is your resolution, if not in a 4:3 format, that might explain.

Can I just say that I miss the profiles access, but perhaps it is not considered a neccessity, it isn't, of course, I can see that it stops members wandering off the subject, & saying "welcome!" etc.,.....[wonder who that could be??]
Is there a central point where profiles can be accessed, or perhaps they are there for internal use only?

Maurice :confused:

I noticed you can't report a post any more, that should not be there for whatever reason!

The icon in the top right corner of a post says "Report Bad Post".

Oops, I must have been looking in my own posts (who don't have that Danger shield).
I had not even noticed the damn things until Nodsu's post!

Can I just say that I miss the profiles access,
They haven't gone anywhere. Just click on the poster's nickname & you will be taken to his profile. Click on the little ball right next to his name & you will have a drop-down menu with more options including the one to view the user's profile.

It is odd that one can't report his/her own bad post.

If I have made a bad post then as a responsible member I should be able to report it to the moderators to receive my just punishment instead of having to silently edit it afterwards and hope that noone noticed.. :p

RBS, you say "help", did you have a look at my post here regardiing recovering your old Avatar' does it look a load of nonsense, or not, I would appreciate your comments, or are we still not talking?
Could I send the Guinness image via the internal PM method, if so how?, & would it help.
As an afterthought, I guess you've used "Replace Avatar" or does it no longer work?

Trying to help,
Maurice :)

I'm running in 1280x1024.

Ok.. here's how this thing is hosing up. I"ve attached 3 pictures to display- first how the search box gets cut off. Then how Display Options appears both on the first rollover, then on the second (where you see the line of the box, but it's drawn God only knows where.

I've figured out though, the proplem relates to the fact that my firefox box isn't maximized to my 1024x768 screen. With Trillian on the right, I have less than full real estate. It turned out that any substantial encroachment on the horizontal space was causing issues, not just one particular example. EDIT: To be clear, with Firefox maximized across the screen and trillian hidden, the issues that I've had do not appear.

This is yet another evil of a statically designed table. Although I'm sure this also has JS/CSS to blame. puke:

Any suggestions?

I still have my old Avatar (and a new, slightly smaller one) on my PC.
There is just not yet the possibility to replace/import your own avatars.
I am sure this hiccup will be resolved some time soon.
Until then I will just sit in my Director's chair.:slurp:
Correction: Julio fixed the problem, Slainte!

I tried the 1280x1024 resolution, but that hurts my eyes. Also such a resolution covers only a partial width of my screen's real-estate, big blue vertical side-ribbons are visible on each side. I don't see any distortions or cut-offs. Perhaps because of the superior drivers of my Matrox G550?
1024x768 on a 19" monitor is much healthier for my eyes, I'll stick with that.
I don't use Trillian or the likes, so I have no issues at all with other programs vying for desktop-space.

I have enabled 'similar threads' feature, look for those at the bottom of the pages. I have found that to be extremely useful in the past when looking for information in other sites/forum[not-allowed][not-allowed]s.

Now all we need is to make people read them :)

To Goalie and anyone else with problems: I have no problems in Opera v7.54 or Firefox PR v0.10.1

The only thing I can think of is that my computer is a clean install... I.e. I do not have the old TS layout cached... Try clearing your Temporary Internet Files and see if that does it...

Now all we need is to make people read them :)
It seems like every time I look at them, they are the same 5 thrads, no matter what thread I am on currently.

Colors, better?