Re: Down in Front 3.0 is LIVE.

Almost sounds like your internet connection dropped out for a second. I dunno, weird. If it happens again, hit F12 and let me know what error you get in the console (If you're using Firefox, uh, uh, I don't remember what the debug console shortcut is).

"Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants."

-- http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

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I'm using Google Chrome, and near as I could tell, my connection was just fine. Your guess is as good as mine. I emailed a screen cap. smile

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Chrome and Firefox both support Firebug, which has a mug's eyeful of debugging information in its console.

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Eh? Is that a good thing? smile

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It is when you're debuggering.

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Holy shit, the forum header is 6 kinds of awesome!

pimp

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Oh, did we change the forums?

Hm.

"Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants."

-- http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

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No, I don't think we did.

I'm like ninety percent sure we did no such thing.

Teague Chrystie

I have a tendency to fix your typos.

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I'm seeing 'Facebook Store' on a new line under the DiF logo, rather than all in one.  Is there a fixed-width box somewhere on the page that should be wider/absent?

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Better?

"Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants."

-- http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

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OH GOD, NO.

"Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants."

-- http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

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Whatever just happened, the forum's now an un-navigable mess in IE.  The header and the forum listings are overlaid on top of one another.   Took me several random clicks at where I assumed this thread would be, in order to get here and post this.  smile

I know supporting IE isn't the highest priority these days, but anyway, FYI.

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Try it again, Trey. Was trying to fix FCW's thing on the fly.

Which, for the record, is a terrible fucking idea.

"Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants."

-- http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

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Yes, those flies are a bugger to use for repairs.

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Heh, there was a file that wasn't properly being loaded for some reason. Found it when I switched to my home PC. Fixed, fcw?

"Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants."

-- http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

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Now that looks better.

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Much better - the issue before was that the forum text was scrolling on top of the header, and I assume it's supposed to be scrolling under it.  But now it's not scrolling at all, so no problem.  (Maybe you just disabled the scolling for IE?  If so, that's a perfectly acceptable solution.)

My next suggestion is to make the header about 1/4 the size it currently is.  The header fills almost half my browser window on my laptop, leaving not much room to read the actual forum.   The big buttons make sense on the front page, which is largely graphical, but not so much in the forum which is textual.    A scaled-down header, ideally with just the text of the buttons and not the icons, and a correspondingly small DIF logo (or just :Home: in the same text as the other buttons) would make the thing much less obtrusive.

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Yeah, there is a lot of vertical black space at the top of the page.

But it's not as bad as this.

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Everything looks alright in my Google Chrome browser, except now the border around this box (as well as the one at the top of the page) is gray, instead of the usual blue. sad

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Warm grey is the new blue. But the curious glow behind the new forum caption is still blue.

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I can't keep looking at it. It's actually hurting my eyes. I'm gonna go AFK for a bit.

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fcw wrote:

But it's not as bad as this.

Holy god.  Now that's some bad web design.

It's mostly just the massive DIF logo that's making the header so fat, if that was 30% of its current size the header elements could otherwise stay the same, but be fit together more closely.

One other thing I just noticed - all the top buttons except "About" open entirely new browser windows in IE.

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That's nothing compared to the first website I made.

I still have nightmares about it.

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Smaller header icon = done.

"Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants."

-- http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

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Looks great, but kind of clumsy in a standard 1024-wide display.

Warning: I'm probably rewriting this post as you read it.

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