Welcome to the site--what do you think of it?

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Welcome to the site--what do you think of it?

Ron Hammack 23 May 2007 21:08

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your administrator speaking…

Here's the deal. Just because I'm the one who set this site up doesn't mean that it's mine; it's ours. I want this to be a place we're all happy with and that we all feel a part of, so if anyone has any suggestions, comments, criticisms, or whatever, I really want to hear about them. Seriously, if there's anything at all you think could be done better, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Thanks,
~Ron.

Re: Welcome to the site--what do you think of it?

Ferrin 23 May 2007 23:16

It's cool. A tad ugly color wise, can I change it to my satisfaction so it appears only to me the way I like it? As well, it says I am a member when I try to join, but I am not counted as a member… what's up with that?

Re: Welcome to the site--what do you think of it?

Jiirik 23 May 2007 23:30

You're on the list of members, as far as I can see.

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Ferrin 23 May 2007 23:39

On the left bit, on the bar. That threw me.

I do have another question, can we change the way it (by it, I mean the forum) nests posts? I don't like the drop to the left… pretty soon everyone will be on the same level anyway… can we adjust it?

Re: Welcome to the site--what do you think of it?

Ron Hammack 24 May 2007 00:32

A tad ugly color wise

Heh. I had a wicked headache when I was setting things up, so I picked the template that hurt my eyes the least. In general, though, I favor simple white backgrounds and minimal use of colors. Does this one look any better?

can I change it to my satisfaction so it appears only to me the way I like it?

Not as far as I can tell, no.

As well, it says I am a member when I try to join, but I am not counted as a member… what's up with that?

Don't worry, you're a member. Those "Members…" links in the sidebar aren't automatically generated; I add 'em by hand and they link to a page you can edit to put in your email address, IM handle, favorite David Hasselhoff quote, or whatever.

I do have another question, can we change the way it (by it, I mean the forum) nests posts? I don't like the drop to the left… pretty soon everyone will be on the same level anyway… can we adjust it?

Ugh, I don't like indented nesting either; I thought I'd turned that off. Consider it fixed!

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Re: Welcome to the site--what do you think of it?

lian 24 May 2007 07:38

Phew, the fixed colors are much better! The clean&simple look is very good, please no strange patterened backgrounds and strange blinky buttons! I'll have to familiarize myself the site a little more before I can make useful suggestions, so I'll just play around for now…

Re: Welcome to the site--what do you think of it?

Ferrin 24 May 2007 13:51

What happened to reply? Everything is a new post? Is that from mucking about with the time stream and removing the indentations?

*apparently so. Cool!

As to the rest, excellent work, Ron H! Thanks for doing this work, it's sweet!

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Re: Welcome to the site--what do you think of it?

Baildan Zimrilim 24 May 2007 17:43

Erm…I'm not sure if it's my computer or the system…is there a way to differential (by color?) posts you've already read… I'm old and have a bad memory.

And…this might be a my computer thing too…but why won't the damn threads stay folded!

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Re: Welcome to the site--what do you think of it?

Ron Hammack 24 May 2007 18:51

I think it's the system. The forums here seem pretty rudimentary — for example, there's no "quote" button on each post; if you want to quote someone, you have to do it manually.

(Free wiki syntax lesson, for anyone who's interested… to blockquote something, put a > and a space before it.

This is a blockquote

See?)

As far as the threads not folding, it might be because I turned off the nesting.

Re: Welcome to the site--what do you think of it?

Baildan Zimrilim 24 May 2007 19:07

Okee…and I think that was what most preferred.

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Ferrin 25 May 2007 15:52

Yeah, otherwise, we'd all be reading them over to the right and they'd be two inches wide by fifteen long.

Dammit, I cam here with a question, and now I can't remember it.

Re: Welcome to the site--what do you think of it?

Ferrin 25 May 2007 16:12

YES! I remember.

Is there a way of seeing WHO is on the site at the time? I miss that functionality.

Re: Welcome to the site--what do you think of it?

Ron Hammack 25 May 2007 16:41

As far as I can tell, no there isn't.

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