Snoops
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Superb ...we're just spoilt on this forum having you 2... Top job as always.
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Forum tidy up on the horizon - NOW LIVE!!
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Warrior
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- 3.0i sports automatic
Looking good Gaz, barring one thing which I do not understand the reasoning behind?
The posters names on the right and not the natural left as per every other forum (barring the other one
I visit.
Without going into the technicalities of advertisement layout, you have the Zroadster.org logo on the left as it draws your eye in and the rest follows. The expression, 'a picture is worth a thousand words' is never truer, and on opening most pages there's now a conflict between the posters avatar on the right and quite often a picture of their car on the left.
Whilst much design is down to personal taste and getting used to change there are some things that you can't get away from. Pictures draw the eye. We don't read backwards......
Without hammering home the point too much.
Starboard and Port
White and Black
Blue and Black
Right and Left
Z to A
The posters names on the right and not the natural left as per every other forum (barring the other one
I visit.Without going into the technicalities of advertisement layout, you have the Zroadster.org logo on the left as it draws your eye in and the rest follows. The expression, 'a picture is worth a thousand words' is never truer, and on opening most pages there's now a conflict between the posters avatar on the right and quite often a picture of their car on the left.
Whilst much design is down to personal taste and getting used to change there are some things that you can't get away from. Pictures draw the eye. We don't read backwards......
Without hammering home the point too much.
Starboard and Port
White and Black
Blue and Black
Right and Left
Z to A
Warrior, thanks for your comments and I do understand what you are getting at. Here is a some of the reasoning why we went this way - please excuse my ramblings...
There are 2 'out of the box' styles with phpBB, this one which is 'prosilver' and our previous one 'subsilver2'. In terms of developing the site, there is more community support for the default prosilver style. Some of the features released by the phpBB community don't support subsilver2 without having to make code changes in that feature. Some add on features won't even support subsilver2 at all.
Some of these features may break during a core forum software upgrade so means a greater amount of testing/recoding each time. This means the development of the site slows down and we can't push out new features as we need to. We don't want to end up with a stagnant site which can't move forward do we?
So from a development point of view, reverting to the default forum layout was a bit of a no brainer. However, from an end user point of view, it took a fair bit of agonising before deciding on this change. But hopefully now we have the best possible base for pushing this site forward.
On a separate note a lot of other sites (for reference I participate on at least 9 other forums regularly, so am basing my thoughts on these), most have reached a maturity in design and functionality so won't make major changes in their life time - just subtle tweaks. What board and I do for a living is build modern websites using the latest technology being used commercially and we want to bring this to the site.
Ramblings over. I know it doesn't answer all your points Warrior, but hopefully puts our decision making in context!
There are 2 'out of the box' styles with phpBB, this one which is 'prosilver' and our previous one 'subsilver2'. In terms of developing the site, there is more community support for the default prosilver style. Some of the features released by the phpBB community don't support subsilver2 without having to make code changes in that feature. Some add on features won't even support subsilver2 at all.
Some of these features may break during a core forum software upgrade so means a greater amount of testing/recoding each time. This means the development of the site slows down and we can't push out new features as we need to. We don't want to end up with a stagnant site which can't move forward do we?
So from a development point of view, reverting to the default forum layout was a bit of a no brainer. However, from an end user point of view, it took a fair bit of agonising before deciding on this change. But hopefully now we have the best possible base for pushing this site forward.
On a separate note a lot of other sites (for reference I participate on at least 9 other forums regularly, so am basing my thoughts on these), most have reached a maturity in design and functionality so won't make major changes in their life time - just subtle tweaks. What board and I do for a living is build modern websites using the latest technology being used commercially and we want to bring this to the site.
Ramblings over. I know it doesn't answer all your points Warrior, but hopefully puts our decision making in context!
I'm torn of this one
Although I like the look and feel of the new site, I agree with Warrior that names on the right seems "wrong".
Or as his examples go,
Right = Wrong
Even worse, it also looks like we've copied znot
Z3nt from m'iPhone on Tapatalk
Although I like the look and feel of the new site, I agree with Warrior that names on the right seems "wrong".
Or as his examples go,
Right = Wrong
Even worse, it also looks like we've copied znot
Z3nt from m'iPhone on Tapatalk
Snoops
Zorg Addict
I'm definitely not trying to "teach my grandmother to suck eggs" but this left to right change is discussed a lot on dev sites with a fix being sought by many to put them back on the left. The fix seems to be fairly simple albeit changes are needed to the code. Is it these changes you are reluctant to do ?? We have a system at work that is not out of the box, we made some customisations so we have to test every time there's an upgrade but we find it worth it... I too like the look and feel of the "new" site but I really find the right avatar un-natural for reading.
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Ok, I've found an article for changing profiles from right to left. Doesn't look like it affects the core files too widely. I'll try and implement it on our development site this afternoon, and evaluate how easy to roll it out to the live site.
Will have to rewrite my testing plan and check a few things out, but it does look feasable. Update you all later when our Brazilian agent wakes up and we have had a chat.
Gary
Will have to rewrite my testing plan and check a few things out, but it does look feasable. Update you all later when our Brazilian agent wakes up and we have had a chat.
Gary
I prefer the user details on the right 
I read from left to right so like to read the content first but that's just me and am the minority so will go with the flow
)
I read from left to right so like to read the content first but that's just me and am the minority so will go with the flow
)
Snoops
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board said:I prefer the user details on the right
I read from left to right so like to read the content first but that's just me and am the minority so will go with the flow
Well you're just not wired up right are you
Well I'm still seeing names on the RHSGazHyde said:
and
when I go to "View new posts" it always takes me to Page 1, not the last unread post.
SeaSurfer
Zorg Guru (I)
Same here. Deleted my favorites page and logged in from new, and names ect now on lhs
Snoops said:board said:I prefer the user details on the right
I read from left to right so like to read the content first but that's just me and am the minority so will go with the flow
Well you're just not wired up right are you
No and that will become more apparent over time i'm sure
)
SeaSurfer
Zorg Guru (I)
Where has the 'Birthday Today' gone ? :-\
Snoops
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GazHyde said:According to the code it's only displayed when there is an actual birthday! Obviously I can't prove that to you until it's someones birthdaySeaSurfer said:
Yep that works
SeaSurfer
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Snoops, you got another birthday ????????????????????????
Snoops
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SeaSurfer said:
I was in "test" mode, just changed my birthday to today.....