New Look

[dave greenhamParticipant @davegreenham19379]

Well I'm sorry . This new look is more like a full page add rather than a forum site

plus as has been mentioned, there's fewer posts.

Why doesn't My Mediatime just give us a bar

at the top for the posts

That way they can use the whole page for adverts.

I HATE IT.

Dave

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Dave have you written this reply based on what the site was showing earlier. The number of posts in "recent forum posts" is now ten which is as much if not more than the old forum.

If it was not for the advertising income then there may well not be a site. I take it you also don't buy either mag as they have a similar proportion of adds to editorial content.

 

J

Edited By JasonB on 01/10/2013 19:43:57

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

I must admit I am finally getting fed up with this forum.

There's just so much wingeing, it's getting me down.

Oddball

<I just can't take all these negative vibes>

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Can we change stoptober to winge-over for 30 days?

regards David

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Neil, thats why I posted those video links.

 

J

Edited By JasonB on 01/10/2013 19:53:16

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

The new look works fine on my iPad, that's good enough for me as I rarely boot the computer up these days.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

As V8 says the web page takes up the whole width of the screen on an iPad but when viewed on the PC there is a lot of wasted white space down the sides.

J

[Gone AwayParticipant @goneaway]

Posted by Katy Purvis on 01/10/2013 18:53:34:

OMG, I can configure it so that the dropdowns work and the shortcuts don't, …..

If you're in a configuring mood perhaps you can answer another question that has been up a number of times but never really addressed.

This editor suppresses the native spell-checker in the user's browser and insists that he use the editor's spell-checker (SCAYT) or none at all. Apart from the fact that I'm not at all happy with sites that manipulate they way I've configured my browser, I think SCAYT is the worst and most illogical way to perform this function (I have it turned off).

Is this a configurable item and could it be configured to allow us to use our own choice of spell-checker?

[Gone AwayParticipant @goneaway]

Posted by Stub Mandrel on 01/10/2013 19:49:07:

There's just so much wingeing,

One man's whingeing being another man's freedom to comment of course.

The volume of comments in this thread was predictable since Katy stepped up (good on ya Katy!). There have been festering niggles with this website ever since it opened and this is one of the rare opportunities we've had to put those niggles to someone that can actually address them.

[Gone AwayParticipant @goneaway]

Posted by Katy Purvis on 01/10/2013 18:53:34:

I can't usually remember how to spell Smiley either though.

Not to mention how to spell Katey …… er ….. Katy.

(Odd thing: on my first attempt at this post I got a totally different editor window – different buttons, more of them and no colour. Then it disappeared, taking my screed with it. Tried again and the usual window is back …. but ….. my native FF spell-checker seems to be working. That is service! Thanks a bunch).

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Posted by Stub Mandrel on 01/10/2013 19:49:07:

I must admit I am finally getting fed up with this forum.

There's just so much wingeing, it's getting me down.

Oddball

<I just can't take all these negative vibes>

.

Stay with it Moriarty

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Katy Purvis on 01/10/2013 18:53:34:

Please be aware that I am doing this in my own time

.

Come on, chaps …

Three Cheers for Katy !!!

This is real dedication.

MichaelG.

[Old ElanParticipant @oldelan]

Posted by modeng2000 on 01/10/2013 17:15:00:

Is it possible to have a 'Mark all posts read' button please?

This is available on a lot of forums and is very useful to quickly show new posts since the last visit. The latest forum posts block on the right does not fulfill this very well.

John

Old Elan, I'm sorry a 'latest unread' is beyond the scope of this layout change, and in all honestly is not likely to be implemented. This would require us to store information every time a user views a post, and maintain a lot more data. The database would probably crawl to a halt accessing and processing that information for all the users on all the MTM forums.

For such a 'revamp' that this site is supposed to have had….. WELL!

The above issues do not appear on any other forum that I use.

Really surprised that such a lot of time and effort hasn't put the site up to date.

The update, for me and my browser and settings, has not changed other than in page layout. Useability is still as dire as it used to be.

Sorry……..

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

Katy as promised.

As you can see the second is a bit of a show stopper…black bar though login field…

can't identify zoom state..ff no longer puts number against that.. but one zoomout fixes it..

I can live with that…

regards..

btw.. ff 24.0 maximised

800X600 display.

[Gone AwayParticipant @goneaway]

Out of curiosity, Jason, if you haven't already tried can you go into:

Help > Restart With Add-Ons Disabled …

and see if you get the same thing.

[SteambuffParticipant @steambuff]

Posted by JasonB on 01/10/2013 21:27:37:

As V8 says the web page takes up the whole width of the screen on an iPad but when viewed on the PC there is a lot of wasted white space down the sides.

J

I am seeing the same … the higher the screen resolution the bigger the white gap …. I suspect that the site has been developed to be xxxx pixels wide … bad web design in my view … it should look at the screen resolution and scale accordingly.

The other thing I don't like is the narrow column down the right hand side … it is the usual convension is to have the narrow column down the left hand side. (as per Windows Explorer, Arc Euro Site, Ebay, Tee Publishing etc) This site just looks and feels wrong.

Dave

Edited By Steambuff on 02/10/2013 05:49:44

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Steambuff on 02/10/2013 05:48:06:

The other thing I don't like is the narrow column down the right hand side …

Dave

.

Think positive, Dave

Reading English text, we scan the page from left to right

Therefore you see the forum content before the adverts, etc.

MichaelG.

[SteambuffParticipant @steambuff]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 02/10/2013 07:45:01:

Posted by Steambuff on 02/10/2013 05:48:06:

The other thing I don't like is the narrow column down the right hand side …

Dave

.

Think positive, Dave

Reading English text, we scan the page from left to right

Therefore you see the forum content before the adverts, etc.

MichaelG.

Its just that it is the usual convension to have the narrow column on the Left …. will take some getting use to.

Dave

[richardandtracyParticipant @richardandtracy]

Posted by jason udall on 01/10/2013 23:23:21:

Katy as promised.

As you can see the second is a bit of a show stopper…black bar though login field…

can't identify zoom state..ff no longer puts number against that.. but one zoomout fixes it..

I can live with that…

regards..

btw.. ff 24.0 maximised

800X600 display.

I suspect that this 'feature' is a function of the web browser not fully understanding the code on the page – which is occasionally said as 'the code is not optimised for your browser'. I get the same with IE10 on some sites, and use Firefox for those. I suspect what you see it might be cured if you use a late version of IE as IE10 shows this site correctly.

Regards,

Richard

[KWILParticipant @kwil]

Where are my albums and messages now?  Oh its that Green strip at the top  why was that all changed? Not for the better, its all over the place and illogical.

Edited By KWIL on 02/10/2013 09:54:55

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Posted by KWIL on 02/10/2013 09:47:47:

Where are my albums and messages now?

Albums, click on 41 photo's next to your name as before.

Messages top menu bar, Inbox second from left

[Martin WParticipant @martinw]

Rcihard

To replicate the screen you have posted I have to reduce the the screen magnification to 25%. At this setting the text is too small to read and that is on a 22in monitor set to 1920 x 1080 resolution. I am using Windows 7 with Google Chrome. At all other magnification intervals up to and including 500% the structure is fine but of course it is far to big for the screen and one needs to pan left/right/up/down to see the full page.

Martin W

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Hi KWIL

"its all over the place and illogical."

I'm not sure that I can agree with that. The green strip is at the very top of the page and, when you first access the forum, it invites you to log in. When you have done so the strip then contains all your "stuff". That seems entirely logical to me – you ( or I anyway!) normally read a page from the top down so I'm taken straight to all the things that I need to see that customise my experience with the site.

Katy – the more I use it the more I like it.

Cheers

Norman

[SteambuffParticipant @steambuff]

Posted by jason udall on 01/10/2013 23:23:21:

Katy as promised.

 

I see the upper image while the page is loading, then it flips to normal at the end of the load. (IE 8 Compatability mode OFF)

But with Compatability mode ON … It loads normally

Dave

Edited By Steambuff on 02/10/2013 10:59:02

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi Kwl

As it's illogical, I will see if Mr Spock can sort it out when he has finished the next startrek movie.

As I don't have friends, I don't see what pupose the friends bit is at the top right.

regards David

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