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Mon Jan 9, 2006 9:53:43 AM #14307 Perm Link

I've been looking at the great design of all the site and have determined that they suck. It is time for a refresh. Anyone want to throw some ideas out on how to improve the layout? It needs to be simple, no flashy images and such. Think for low bandwidth people. I have some ideas in mind and I'll show them when I get home. I'll be making some new test styles to try it out.

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Re: Design

Mon Jan 9, 2006 2:34:28 PM #14313 Perm Link

In response to Aron Schatz #14307

I like it the way it is loads fast and I am on dial up.

But I'm sure I can come up with something...

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Re[2]: Design

Mon Jan 9, 2006 6:51:25 PM #14316 Perm Link

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I'm doing the redesign now. It is looking good. I'm forced to use tables for layout in a few area Sad

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, but the majority will be using pure CSS and divs. By all means send in a design and I can make it into a theme. That would be awesome.

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Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:19:28 AM #14317 Perm Link

Here is a taste of the new style in its XHTML goodness. The attachment below. I will update the theme on here (under XHTML Test) soon. Question: I have a floating DIV on the left to do the left bar and I set the page content to a margin of 145px on the left to not spill under the left bar. If I have a floated image in the content area and I do a clear:both;, the content appears under the left bar even though that's not the float I wanted to clear. It is hard to explain, I'll show you when I get home.

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Re: Design

Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:18:37 PM #14327 Perm Link

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Said By Aron Schatz
I've been looking at the great design of all the site and have determined that they suck. It is time for a refresh. Anyone want to throw some ideas out on how to improve the layout? It needs to be simple, no flashy images and such. Think for low bandwidth people. I have some ideas in mind and I'll show them when I get home. I'll be making some new test styles to try it out.

A question: Is it normal for the font to be Times New Roman in the forums? I find it a bit unusual, most forums would use MS sans serif or Arial. I'm using Firefox BTW if that matters.

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Re[2]: Design

Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:51:05 PM #14332 Perm Link

In response to xaver #14327

Thankfully, this is not most forums. Yes, the font used is Times New Roman. I like that font, but the redesign will use mostly sans-serify fonts.

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Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:24:52 PM #14337 Perm Link

Nothing really wrong with Times, just found it unusual since the forum index page used a sans-serif font. Just thought that something wasn't right since Times is often used as the "default" font if a particular font couldn't be found Smile

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Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:15:52 PM #14368 Perm Link

Here is another taste. When I can work on it more tomorrow, I'll upload the latest theme. I'm trying to rework some ASEcode things first.

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Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:36:19 PM #14373 Perm Link

I like the design right now because it's fast and very functional.

Different color schemes would be nice, maybe more white, orange, and green, instead of black, grey and dark/glowing blue?

Don't have any problems with this design though, thats for sure.

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Thu Jan 12, 2006 3:38:00 PM #14397 Perm Link

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The new design looks nice and is well organized; I also like the variety of fonts used Smile

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Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:59:44 PM #14403 Perm Link

Here is another taste. I just finished the comments. There are NO tables for the comments. That's pure divs and spans with a bunch of CSS. This also means the viewtopic for the forum will be completed with little effort (since comments and messages are the same layout).

The new design is very extensible. By just changing the CSS you can redo the entire layout and design of the site. I'm making it this way because that's how it should have been in the first place. While I'm redoing the design, I'm also going through the code and cleaning up stuff. Consider this version 3.1.

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XHTML Test

Sat Jan 14, 2006 12:50:58 PM #14447 Perm Link

The XHTML Test theme has been updated. You can check out where the design is heading.

Things that 'work':
Only on main site:
Index
Articles
News
Comments (mostly)

That's basically it. The redesign is very tough. Test it out and let me know what you think.

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Re: XHTML Test

Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:16:49 PM #14449 Perm Link

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Said By Aron Schatz
Test it out and let me know what you think.

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Re[2]: XHTML Test

Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:46:44 PM #14450 Perm Link

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User CP Under themes.... XHTML Test.

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Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:37:24 PM #14477 Perm Link

WOW, I checked out the new design, its really nice. Not much of a change really, but nicer shades, I like the fade from blue to black in the menu bar.

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Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:04:48 PM #14479 Perm Link

In response to Meatball #14477

If you look at the underlying X/HTML between the themes, you'll see there is a huge difference.

Most of the site on the XHTML Test is tableless (most).

Edit: The damn site looks horrible in IE6 on WinXP. Somethings aren't even rendering text correctly. I'll have to investigate these issues before proceeding further. Looks like I need to open up a Virtual PC session and start testing multiple OSes and multiple browsers. I've been checking Firefox and IE5.5. IE5.5 gets some things wrong but the site was usuable. In IE6 it sucks.

Edited at Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:07:44 PM

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