New Design and Upgrade to Forums, Galleries and Classifieds!

[Stephen Earle]

Sorted on my side. Looks good!

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

Can you also look into getting a mobi plugin?

can you specify more?

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

Seems to be designed for Wide Screens 16:9 ?

Nope, designed to be able to shrink and grow according to screen/window size, which make complicated formatting a pain

I suddenly have this scroll bar at the bottom and about 25% blank space on the right

On the buglist, thanx... some see it, others don't - trying to figure out why

[Vida]

The bg on my screen is a soft white and I hope it will stay that way. I also prefer the clean look of the images without borders/frames. Maybe members can add their own borders to their photos before posting.

[Anonymous]

Nope, designed to be able to shrink and grow according to screen/window size, which make complicated formatting a pain

The ads on the right seem to prevent this from happening effectively.

can you specify more?

It's a vbulletin plugin that formats the page differently for mobile devices. Especially handy for blackberry users.

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

I also noticed in my gallery that there was a gap between images on the right of the screen but on the left side the images blended together with no gap!

Not sure I see the same... can you please post a screengrab? Mine is exactly centre aligned

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

It's a vbulletin plugin that formats the page differently for mobile devices. Especially handy for blackberry users.

We have a .mobi site as well, but right now it just refers back to the original page. The original mobi plugin didn't work well at all... once we get the forum sorted, we will look into that again

[Nicholas de Kock]

Oh no, walked into a completely new site, wasn't expecting all this change, definitely something that I will have to get use to over time. Personally I prefered the previous look but I'm sure this will grow on me pretty soon.

[Mike Wrankmore]

Hi Sean
Don't want to be a dwanzy......but how do i screen grab

[KoiErik]

The Galleries options, can they not be moved to the top?

[Deezil]

Pretty subdued ... I like it!

Galleries still need some final touches I think (such as automatic borders around pictures and a light/dark gradient background) but eventually all the nitty gritties of upgrading will be fixed.

Thanx for the effort guys!

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

Hi Sean
Don't want to be a dwanzy......but how do i screen grab

Print screen button and then crop in photoshop, save to web and post (windows)
on Mac it's cmnd + Shift + 4 drag a square that you want to grab, let go and the grab will be on your desktop ready to upload

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

Thanx for the effort guys!

Always a Pleasure!

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

Galleries still need some final touches I think (such as automatic borders around pictures and a light/dark gradient background) but eventually all the nitty gritties of upgrading will be fixed.

Thanx for the effort guys!

Pleasure... we try, but pretty sure we won't be able to satisfy al 22,000 odd members

As to the gallery... we are still stuck between two fires.. the lightbox effect replaced the gradient view (mouse over the image to see) and the borders is a toughy... some people add borders to their images for portfolio display, and others do not... if we add a border, we make the borderless stand out... if we leave the border, we don't interfere with image which already has a border...

Noted and keeping an eye on it

[Irene McCullagh]

Hmmm... This is supposed to be much faster than the previous forum... heavily optimized. what browser and connection are you on?

Using FireFox - the up to date most current version along with a Cell C black stick (supposedly the fast one).
I do have latency issues on and off, but the galleries are truly crawling, where my other pages (different sites) are coming in as per normal average speed.

[HiltonP]

It's slow . . . using FF over a broadband connection.

Not crazy about the white background, it's too bright.

You need to try and "separate" the post content from the signatures, titles, banners, avatars, etc.
Right now it's all merging into a mush of text. One line comments are being swamped by all the
surrounding stuff.

The individual Classifieds have no visual structure, again, just a mass of text.

I understand the need to move on, but the previous format was easier, and more comfortable to browse.

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

It's slow . . . using FF over a broadband connection...

we seem to have a FF loading problem... again not on all versions of FF (running on FF on a mac on ADSL and is moving at a decent pace)

added to buglist

[Irene McCullagh]

we seem to have a FF loading problem... again not on all versions of FF (running on FF on a mac on ADSL and is moving at a decent pace)

added to buglist

Tested it now on ie8 - it may run a little faster (opening gallery images) but still not blitsvinning.
Also, while we're talking, I'm not so sure about the hover-over black BG. The previous grey scale slide was very nice, imo.

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

hmmm... thanx Irene.

Ok... seems the bug reports have slowed down a bit... we have about 24 that we need to fix.

thankyou to everybody that sent me bugs or posted them here. We really appreciate the help!

[Josey]

Hi
I have no photos in my gallery??