Site Display

It's an iPhone. It does settle eventually but re-engages every time I change threads.

Yeah, it's annoying.  But better than before on the iPhone when it would just stick in the middle of the screen.

-Allen

I like the wide screen settings, but that's just because I have a dumb phone and only view the site on wide format monitors.  $0.02

I like the wide screen settings, but that's just because I have a dumb phone and only view the site on wide format monitors.  $0.02

Yeah, me too.  But judging by the feedback after the last change, there are a number of users that either use low res monitors or phones to access the site.

I'm actually liking the fixed width format vs. the variable width format.  It makes content creation easier and more predictable in terms of presentation.  A fixed width of 1024 seemed a reasonable compromise.  I may bump to 1280 tomorrow and see who complains.   

-Allen

I like the wide screen settings, but that's just because I have a dumb phone and only view the site on wide format monitors.  $0.02

Yeah, me too.  But judging by the feedback after the last change, there are a number of users that either use low res monitors or phones to access the site.

I'm actually liking the fixed width format vs. the variable width format.  It makes content creation easier and more predictable in terms of presentation.  A fixed width of 1024 seemed a reasonable compromise.  I may bump to 1280 tomorrow and see who complains.   

-Allen

A man with too much power! 

I like the site set-up! Only annoying thing is on a phone the "who's on-line" line sometimes stretches over the width of the screen and follows you around like a stalker . Anyone know how to fix this? Is it how I have my phone set-up?

Which Phone and OS version?

This used to be a problem in that the bar would scroll.  But newer updates to phones and the forum sw have solved this.  Although I do see a lag in the redraw when scrolling and the bar does "follow me around", but it does settle on the bottom.

-Allen

Same issues, Droid Bionic. At risk of giving too much away re: phone OS
system version 5.9.902.XT875.Verizon.en.US
android version 2.3.4
webtop version WT-1.3.0-108_DBN-24
build number 5.5.1_84_DBN-71

Allen, don't forget we probably do have members with boat anchor systems that arent capable of pushing up that high in resoulution, too. Admirable you are trying to move forward but not everyone can afford the newest and greatest.

I like the wide screen settings, but that's just because I have a dumb phone and only view the site on wide format monitors.  $0.02

Yeah, me too.  But judging by the feedback after the last change, there are a number of users that either use low res monitors or phones to access the site.

I'm actually liking the fixed width format vs. the variable width format.  It makes content creation easier and more predictable in terms of presentation.  A fixed width of 1024 seemed a reasonable compromise.  I may bump to 1280 tomorrow and see who complains.   

-Allen

I gotta admit, i'm addicted to getting my 3-4 times a day NWKA family fix. So i use whatever is handy, which is either my Bionic, or a laptop, or if i've ever home, a 6 yro Win2K system pushing an 18 inch samsung flatscreen running on what yo unow consider lower resolution. So, across so many different platforms, i may run into difficulities when i show up to see who has done what today. 

Allen, don't forget we probably do have members with boat anchor systems that arent capable of pushing up that high in resoulution, too. Admirable you are trying to move forward but not everyone can afford the newest and greatest.

Oh I know exactly how many users use what.  Muahahahah ...

65.8% of visitors used a screen width resolution of 1280 or wider.
13.9% of visitors used a screen width resolution of 1024 to 1279.
20.3% of visitors used a screen width resolution of <1024.

-Allen

62.48% use Windows.
18.84% use Macs.

-Allen

29.5% use IE
25.9% use Safari
19.0% use Firefox
18.7% use Chrome.  Geez, more of you should try Chrome!

-Allen

Continuing with some tweaks.

The top user area was kind of a waste of space.  I removed it and replaced it with another user area block at the top of the left column.

The Recent Topics block that was at the top of the left column was kind of compressed horizontally.  I moved it to the top of the center area.  Now you can see the full topic subject.  This block is also scrollable and contains the 15 most recent topics.  I may tweak this area a bit more to make it even more useable/readable, but I'll save that for another late night.

I also removed the more or less useless help button in the top menu.

The goals was to get a better utilized space while still maintaining the functionality.

-Allen

Liked the Recent Topics box on the left much better - especially the expanded length. Putting it at the top I found immediately annoying.

But I do encourage trying tweaks to improve things.

Yeah, I know it's not quite right yet on top.  It's too wide and the right side of the space is wasted.  I either need to fit the content to the width, or fit the box to the content.  I'm kind of thinking along  the lines of fitting the box to the content.

But then what content would you all like to see right there up at the top?  I may put a "featured" block, highlighting upcoming events, super fish reports, or cool pics.

On the left, it was too narrow.  I had tried making the left column wider, and kind of liked that on the higher resolutions.  But with the lower resolution and fixed width, it was taking up a lot of the screen.

-Allen

Hopefully a work in progress still.  The 'show unread posts since last visit' button is gone, and that's pretty much my most used link.

Liked the Recent Topics box on the left much better - especially the expanded length. Putting it at the top I found immediately annoying.

But I do encourage trying tweaks to improve things.

+10 on this

Hopefully a work in progress still.  The 'show unread posts since last visit' button is gone, and that's pretty much my most used link.

Ummm ... top part of the left column.

-Allen