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Re: Board Changes
« Reply #200 on: 2 April 2010, 16:48:00 »
I don't know if this is a board glitch or not, but recently when I click the "new" link on a thread, it doesn't always take me to the new post, but usually to some other post on the same thread.  This isn't a big deal, and maybe it's just because the database got messed up and doesn't remember what post I read last, so I'll let you know if it persists.

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Re: Board Changes
« Reply #201 on: 2 April 2010, 17:08:29 »
John, you know where it says "Hello -Archmage-", or in your case, "Hello John.d.h", below that to the right of your avatar, click on "Show unread posts since last visit", then it will show you the unread posts since you last visit, which is very useful.
Then you can click the "New" link, or the little goto last post icon to the right of the new button.

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Re: Board Changes
« Reply #202 on: 2 April 2010, 17:23:36 »
Hey guys, I've uploaded the new fixed theme and deleted the old one... :P
So sorry, you'll have to reset it to that in your profile page... :look:

I'm thinking of setting it as a default. What do you guys think? If I get enough people to agree, I'll make it the default and set everyone to it. Of course, if you want to use the SMF default (the 'Core' theme), you can select it from your settings.
I agree with setting your new theme as default. It's not just stethically appealing, it's perfectly functional too (in terms of visibilty and features, may be some glitch like John.d.h suggested). ;)
So yeah, I agree it would make a nicer default theme. It sure is "default" to me now! ;) (and I wasn't even into themeing the board when you asked the question! ;D ).

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Re: Board Changes
« Reply #203 on: 2 April 2010, 19:11:28 »
Hmm... nope, that's not it.  When I click on the "new" button, it just takes me to some random post in that thread, somewhere toward the end but not to the unread post.  It's not really that important, just a little anomaly I had noticed.

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Re: Board Changes
« Reply #204 on: 2 April 2010, 19:57:45 »
I noticed that with the default SMF's theme too, John. :P

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Re: Board Changes
« Reply #205 on: 2 April 2010, 20:37:51 »
That's the one I'm using.  I probably should have mentioned that earlier. :look:

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Re: Board Changes
« Reply #206 on: 2 April 2010, 22:57:16 »
Hmm... nope, that's not it.  When I click on the "new" button, it just takes me to some random post in that thread, somewhere toward the end but not to the unread post.  It's not really that important, just a little anomaly I had noticed.
Same thing for me.  ::)
Only for this thread though, it goes to the 8th "page" of this topic...  :|

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Re: Board Changes
« Reply #207 on: 2 April 2010, 23:04:38 »
I'm also noticing it on the university computer I'm on right now, so it's not just my home box.  They're both Vista running Firefox, in case that matters.

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Re: Board Changes
« Reply #208 on: 2 April 2010, 23:21:15 »
Hmm, yeah, well, I'm also using Firefox too.

A thing about the color, it's kinda hard to tell the difference between a link and just regular text... (not hard, but there is no color difference, remember the "default blue" color? I think...)

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Also, so sorry for modifying your post, ment to modify mine, but wasn't paying very much attention at all. My apologies
No problem, besides that they made me almost miss what you said...  ::)
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Re: Board Changes
« Reply #209 on: 3 April 2010, 02:43:58 »
I'll create a new poll. Now, to test the links... Firstly, let me tell you that I did indeed notice that links where a bit hard to see here. However, there was no easy way to change this. I spent quite a while seeing what I could do with no success. In the stylesheet, these links are really no different from the links in the topic pages. Or the link at the top of the page that says 'Show unread posts since last visit'. I tried a different color, such as an orange (which is the a:hover style), but it didn't really work well or look good.

Of course, I COULD change the BBC editor, so that all manually inserted links (ie: with [url]http://glest.110mb.com/[/url]), BUT since that is done in the main code, NOT the theme, that would end up undone when updating the board, or if it must be reinstalled as it was before. Plus, I'm not too comfortable with hacking the source and too lazy/inexperienced to make a SMF mod...

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BTW - Something I've been meaning to tell you guys for a while is handy piece of knowledge is that there is a 'hidden' tag called [nobbc] that causes things inside of it to be rendered without bbcode, as I used for my [url] example above. Some of you might know that already, but if not, it's pretty handy knowledge for if someone asks how you should post something, or about format, etc.
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Re: Board Changes
« Reply #210 on: 3 April 2010, 04:04:12 »
Icons that tell if there are new posts still need to change, also the stars that tell your rank look bad.
And when you post the icons and bckground need to be fixed still.
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Re: Board Changes
« Reply #211 on: 3 April 2010, 04:14:38 »
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also the stars that tell your rank look bad.
I think the regular stars look good/ok, but the "special" stars don't look so good...  ::)

I see, Omega. Hmm...

Also, maybe you should create another thread for the new Glest theme. Or not. Or else how else will you get feedback about the alternative header?  ::)

Oh well.

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« Reply #212 on: 3 April 2010, 07:51:56 »
jozepin, since you have access to the server, could you delete the contents of the uploads folder, which is a temporary folder storing things uploaded, primarily the zips and stuff for the mods I've installed (such as Youtube BBC). Had some trouble reinstalling the mods because the files already existed and had to rename. Plus, the folder is taking up a lot of junk. Can't be sure, but you may want to check what you delete of course, everything deletable is an archive of some sort (mostly tar.gz and .zip).
which is the temporary folder? is in the forum folder?

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Re: Board Changes
« Reply #213 on: 3 April 2010, 22:37:45 »
EDIT2: This topic reminded me that there is a forum "bug" that makes it hide the image that you put on your post... happens on old threads and new threads...like here.
EDIT: Did you change the time? Now there are seconds...  ::)
I'll create a new poll. Now, to test the links... Firstly, let me tell you that I did indeed notice that links where a bit hard to see here. However, there was no easy way to change this. I spent quite a while seeing what I could do with no success. In the stylesheet, these links are really no different from the links in the topic pages. Or the link at the top of the page that says 'Show unread posts since last visit'. I tried a different color, such as an orange (which is the a:hover style), but it didn't really work well or look good.
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it's just that the link color is the same as the text color, so unless you manually change the color, it is hard to see/people will "miss" the link... (that happened to me, when I tried to find the GAE RC...  ::) ) Oh wait, I think already said that...  :look:  ::)  :-[
so the link color is white, and the text color is white, so unless you make it like really noticeable...

A little OT, BTW you're site seems to be down...  ::) (maybe it is just me  :| )

The hovering color is ok I guess (orange) since the background color is black/grayish...  ::)

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Of course, I COULD change the BBC editor, so that all manually inserted links (ie: with [url]http://glest.110mb.com/[/url]), BUT since that is done in the main code, NOT the theme, that would end up undone when updating the board, or if it must be reinstalled as it was before. Plus, I'm not too comfortable with hacking the source and too lazy/inexperienced to make a SMF mod...
I agree...so...  ::)

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BTW - Something I've been meaning to tell you guys for a while is handy piece of knowledge is that there is a 'hidden' tag called [nobbc] that causes things inside of it to be rendered without bbcode, as I used for my [url] example above. Some of you might know that already, but if not, it's pretty handy knowledge for if someone asks how you should post something, or about format, etc.
Yeah, I knew that.  :) But there was a "button" that could do that before...  :| oh well

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Re: Board Changes
« Reply #214 on: 4 April 2010, 22:39:23 »
I also use the glest theme now, and its very good!  :-*
Here are some things that should be changed ( just from my view of course   :D ):
- The used white is a bit too bright, it hurts in the eyes. Especially the textfields where you edit something are much too bright.

- The white font color/background contrast is a bit too strong compared to the old board maybe it should be a bit more grey.
http://josezanni.com/glest_old_forum/viewtopic.php?t=3657&sid=27140f63dd2c6f2876cce3c2960f0bf6

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- the sticky posts should be highlighted a bit more. You hardly see the differences from normal posts. I have no idea what to change exactly, but they should be a bit more highlighted. ( textcolor/fonttype ... whatever )

- The "new" icon( which indicates that the topic is new ) doesn't really fit to the theme

Here is a new icon you can use to indicate things that are already read. The current glest G looks so pale when it has nothing new.
I hope you are a gimp user:
http://www.titusgames.de/tmp/on3.xcf
Play a bit with the layers, I don't know which one is the best to indicate something new.
normal:star:glow:
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« Reply #215 on: 6 April 2010, 21:40:40 »
Sometimes it's really hard to see when text is a link or not.  For example, look at the small difference in writing here versus just writing here.

Maybe this can be modified in each user's browser, but I would like it better for it to automatically be different, for example brown or gold...

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« Reply #216 on: 6 April 2010, 22:24:03 »
The icons you made look good Titi.  :)
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« Reply #217 on: 6 April 2010, 22:32:32 »
Sometimes it's really hard to see when text is a link or not.  For example, look at the small difference in writing here versus just writing here.

Maybe this can be modified in each user's browser, but I would like it better for it to automatically be different, for example brown or gold...
Yep, that's what we said...  ::)
C'mon Omega...  ::)  :thumbup:

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« Reply #218 on: 6 April 2010, 22:33:52 »
Come on Omega!!!
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« Reply #219 on: 7 April 2010, 00:59:22 »
Just wait. He will post once he comes on.  ::)
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« Reply #220 on: 7 April 2010, 02:30:39 »
yeah...  :|
hey, omega, did you edit the stars pic limit to 8? cause it doesn't really make sense if we have ranks, but our "stars" are the same.  ::)

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« Reply #221 on: 7 April 2010, 03:04:54 »
Sorry for being off for a bit... (You guys ARE impatient though!). :-X

Anyway, down to business:

@Font Color: I guess I'll change the main color from white to rgb(221,221,221), which is the same as the example Titi showed.
- The "new" icon( which indicates that the topic is new ) doesn't really fit to the theme

Here is a new icon you can use to indicate things that are already read. The current glest G looks so pale when it has nothing new.
I hope you are a gimp user:
http://www.titusgames.de/tmp/on3.xcf
Play a bit with the layers, I don't know which one is the best to indicate something new.
normal:star:glow:

I'm REALLY not sure what you mean. The 'normal' picture looks the same as my current one. The star might be better though (although I'm not sure about glow... A bit too fuzzy for me). I'm not a GIMP user, but I'll just use the preview you posted. :D

EDIT: Did you change the time? Now there are seconds...  ::)
Heh heh. Glad SOMEONE noticed. Yes, that was a very nice change of mine, yet I'm surprised you did not notice the TICKING clock too! That's right, I inserted a bit of JS to have a live action clock that adjusts to the user's timezone, rather than a clock showing the time when the page was loaded only for the server (UTC?) time.

@Link Color: I think I'll experiment at that, but no guarentees...
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« Reply #222 on: 7 April 2010, 03:10:53 »
Sorry for being off for a bit... (You guys ARE impatient though!). :-X

Anyway, down to business:

@Font Color: I guess I'll change the main color from white to rgb(221,221,221), which is the same as the example Titi showed.
Cool.  :thumbup:

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EDIT: Did you change the time? Now there are seconds...  ::)
Heh heh. Glad SOMEONE noticed. Yes, that was a very nice change of mine, yet I'm surprised you did not notice the TICKING clock too! That's right, I inserted a bit of JS to have a live action clock that adjusts to the user's timezone, rather than a clock showing the time when the page was loaded only for the server (UTC?) time.

@Link Color: I think I'll experiment at that, but no guarentees...
Yeah, I see.
No, I don't notice it...but that's usually because I have music playing on my computer.  ::)
I never noticed the clock, since I changed my "time"...  ::)

Well...you didn't...  ::) oh well.

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« Reply #223 on: 7 April 2010, 07:32:16 »
@Omega, right the first one is the same you have,but it should replace this one:


And one of the images with the stars are meant to replace this one:


Thats all :)
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« Reply #224 on: 7 April 2010, 10:51:45 »
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@Omega, right the first one is the same you have,but it should replace this one:

And one of the images with the stars are meant to replace this one:

Thats all Smile

How about, we leave this one alone:


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And replace this one:


With this one:


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(although I'm not sure about glow... A bit too fuzzy for me)

Fuzzy?
It's perfect! :thumbup:
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