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Title: I [b]LIKE[/b] it!
Post by: snuffysbluff on March 15, 2003, 05:31:00 AM

Now I gotta change my desk top to match.

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Post by: jepinto on March 15, 2003, 05:36:00 AM

Now, if we can get it all together......

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Post by: RobW on March 15, 2003, 06:55:00 AM

Wow! What a surprise. Somebody quick--wake up Bill!!! So far, so good. Now I gotta play around here and see if there's a "Blame it on Bernie" graemlin!      

Hey, just looked at my post--"TS Addict"??? Very cute, Jennie--or should I say "Ms. Administrator".  
 
 [ 03-15-2003, 07:59 AM: Message edited by: RobW ]

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Post by: RNKIII on March 15, 2003, 07:01:00 AM

Must say I LIKE it a LOT. Very nice looking!!  Thank you to all involved.

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Post by: george on March 15, 2003, 07:31:00 AM

Worth the wait, you all is to be congratulated.

Yes indeedy.
George.

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Post by: Reiddm on March 15, 2003, 09:07:00 AM

WOW! Great change, it's seems to be , well cleaner, modern! Isn't it nice to be addicted to Mac's!!!

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Post by: marie on March 15, 2003, 09:14:00 AM

Absolutely AWESOME!! I love it...

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Post by: Audone on March 15, 2003, 09:14:00 AM

This is an awesome look! Congratulations to all involved.

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Post by: jepinto on March 15, 2003, 09:27:00 AM

quote:

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Originally posted by RobW:
Hey, just looked at my post--"TS Addict"??? Very cute, Jennie--or should I say "Ms. Administrator".    

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Your Royal Highness will be just fine.  Most of my sub...ahem*...friends do.

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Post by: Bruce_F on March 15, 2003, 09:38:00 AM

Nice colors!

The new theme is easy on the eyes!

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Post by: jepinto on March 15, 2003, 09:52:00 AM

Kris does some marvelous work!

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Post by: Johanbgoot on March 15, 2003, 10:54:00 AM

WOW, what a pleasant surprize!  I have sensitive eyes and this is really easy to read.  Thanks!!!

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Post by: Bobun on March 15, 2003, 12:57:00 PM

We know this was a labor of love . Our reaction was very
 positive and  in keeping with the  quality of Techsurvivors
 membership, the response is unanimously favorable.
 The layout is so much easier for these "old eyes"we will
 certainly be better able to visit the site, and frequently.
 Kudos plus , Kris,for the modern, logical and artistic            
 presentation.

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Post by: kps on March 15, 2003, 12:59:00 PM

Excellent!!!!      

Does that mean we're sticking with UBB?

The new look also called for an avatar...  
 
 [ 03-15-2003, 02:31 PM: Message edited by: kps ]

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Post by: sokukodo on March 15, 2003, 01:00:00 PM

Great new look!

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Post by: SnowWitch on March 15, 2003, 01:32:00 PM

Whoa!!! Looking good here. Great job!!!   trish

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Post by: Gregg on March 15, 2003, 02:06:00 PM

Very clean, modern look! Good job. Now that logo, is that choice A, E, C or what?        It came out quite nicely. The color scheme is excellent!

It seems to refresh slowly when I scroll. (NS 4.77) I'll see how Explorer does on Monday. The smallest text is difficult to read, but perhaps some tweaking of my settings will help. (I do have a vision exam scheduled for next Saturday!) Sorry if I'm the first to point out flaws. Most likely it's due to my settings.

Oh, and now I see that there is precious little difference in color of the topics I've visited and those I haven't. Sorry 'bout that, just being honest.    

I'm glad to see that it's easy to find all the right buttons. I've experienced other BB transitions that took awhile to figure out what was going on. This layout is logical and familiar. That was a wise choice.
 
 [ 03-15-2003, 03:21 PM: Message edited by: Gregg ]

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Post by: Xairbusdriver on March 15, 2003, 02:07:00 PM

Don't change a thing! Very clean design/skin. Text size is larger, had to check to see if I had forgot to unzoom!    Very easy to read!

Thanks to all who put in some hours on this change! We all owe youse guys!

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Post by: RobW on March 15, 2003, 02:10:00 PM

As I mentioned before, I really like the new look (great job, Kris), but I'm not sure if there's much difference in speed--which I thought was the original purpose of the change.

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Post by: Gary S on March 15, 2003, 02:32:00 PM

Excellent work !

I like it too. Easy to read and navigate and the graphics are terriffic!

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Post by: Thomas S. England on March 15, 2003, 03:03:00 PM

I particularly like the Active Button. If that was around before, I never noticed.
I'll make a bookmark for it.

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Post by: Bill on March 15, 2003, 03:27:00 PM

Hey I go skinny-dipping in this California -Bernie- rain and you guys went changed the board on me. <gr>

Looks nice,clean,neat,keen-0-jet.  

I see that tiny   is back.
Now how or who is going to be able to watch that pint size boob tube anyho?  

First thing I did was zip to my 'profile' in case ....
The 'profile' button being in the middle of the other buttons is bit awkward.
Is there a way to slide the 'profile' button over (left) as the first?

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Post by: Bill on March 15, 2003, 03:36:00 PM

Just noticed.

That Clone garbage can go!
Seriously!

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Post by: Bill on March 15, 2003, 04:22:00 PM

Just bounced into 9 to check the difference for speed etc etc as Rob W pointed out about what the change was all about in the first place.

No different in either OS or the browsers I have.

Very well could be on my end though with the rain and all. Anytime it rains heavy (1/2 inch = So.Calif standards) the world stops rotating. <gr>
 
 [ 03-15-2003, 05:24 PM: Message edited by: Bill ]

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Post by: WDL on March 15, 2003, 05:15:00 PM

The cleanest (uncluttered,) pleasing forum I've yet seen.

The colours are easy on the eyes.

Wonderful job Kris.

Thank you.

WDL

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Post by: krissel on March 15, 2003, 06:20:00 PM

Glad you all approve of the change.

To be quite honest, this is plan B.  

We had attempted a move to totally new software that would have potentially speeded things up, however a direct conversion was not possible without losing our membership lists or the archives. We are still checking into other possibilities and will let you all know if we find something acceptable.

In the meanwhile we hope this will suffice.

 Greg , I agree that there isn't a big difference in color as to visited/new links. There is a noticeable difference in colors depending on machine settings as you know. This theme looked quite a bit darker on my folks eMac, lighter on my 9600 and the tan looked almost purple on my PB.    

Anyway, I can play with the color on the visited links if you all would like?

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Post by: Gregg on March 15, 2003, 06:37:00 PM

Hmm. I see the link to page 1 of this thread at the bottom of page 2, but I didn't see a link to page 2 at the bottom of page 1, and I looked three times. There is a link to page 2 at the top of page 1, but there ought to be one at the bottom. I think you could do without the one at the top. Maybe it's showing up at the bottom for others??

P.S. It also seems that there is a minimum amount of window "real estate" required for a post. Some of the one line posts take up more space than it looks like they would need to. Just an observation....
 
 [ 03-15-2003, 07:43 PM: Message edited by: Gregg ]

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Post by: Audone on March 15, 2003, 06:44:00 PM

Mine shows at the top and bottom of both pages, Gregg, and I'm using Safari.

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Post by: Gregg on March 15, 2003, 06:52:00 PM

Audone, ya beat me to it! I was coming back to edit again and remove that bottom/top business. I discovered on another try that I had just not allowed enough time for the page to load. It is very slow on my connections today.

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Post by: krissel on March 15, 2003, 07:11:00 PM

Greg  you are right about that minimum space thing.  We noticed it when we tested  but haven't bothered to try to change it, if it can be changed.

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Post by: krissel on March 16, 2003, 06:57:00 AM

OK, I changed the visited link color.

Better? Worse?

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Post by: JohnKentucky on March 16, 2003, 07:20:00 AM

Looking good!

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Post by: Bernie on March 16, 2003, 10:48:00 AM

NIce!      Clean Well organized look.  My hats off to all involved.  Except Harv of course LOL

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Post by: Bernie on March 16, 2003, 12:32:00 PM

That's Kelly Clone #1 LOL

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Post by: Gregg on March 16, 2003, 09:34:00 PM

quote:

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Originally posted by krissel:
OK, I changed the visited link color.

Better? Worse?

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I don't notice any difference here. It must be my settings. I'll have to look into that... some time.

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Post by: Xairbusdriver on March 16, 2003, 09:36:00 PM

Not a big thing, matter of fact it is a small thing!

Just noticed that when one uses the "qoute" tags, all the text in the "quote" and all mseeage text after it are a size of two smaller. At MFI, one used to be able to insert some 'funny' tags and cause a font face or size change, doesn't seem to work there anymore. Oh well...

Anyway, is there a setting that changes the font size in the admin area? If so, is it done manually? If so, can you add a '/size' command. If so, will you. If not,...        

Also, the smaller text size shows up if you use/have a sig.
...or an edit.

Jim C.
(sig below edit text)
 
 [ 03-16-2003, 10:40 PM: Message edited by: airbusdriver ]

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Post by: krissel on March 16, 2003, 10:59:00 PM

Jim , that was the very first "quirk" I tried to chase down when we first tested. I've gone over the stylesheet several times but can't figure out why that happens.

There is a tag for "bread crumbs" that I don't understand which has 10 pt type. The rest of the body is 12.  I'm suspicious of that tag but I haven't a clue what it is.

Anyone?

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Post by: dolphin on March 17, 2003, 12:18:00 AM

I gues this h'yar meens...we's got us'ns a new bord look, aint it jist wundarfull!!!

Thanks Kris , for your wonderful artistry...and creativity!!!
Thank you  Jennie , for your creative posting titles...and many thanks to everyone else involved...TS rocks!

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Post by: Highmac on March 17, 2003, 04:59:00 AM

Love it. I feared we were going to get something radically different that this old codger would take weeks to figure out. Great thing is it's the same sort of set up but, as others have said, a cleaner, neater layout.
Many thanks to all concerned. Oh (sacrilege) viewing it on a PC is just as easy ('read' topics 'greyed out' and easy to spot).