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Pale version to be used as a background, so should be only slightly different from white.

Screenshot very helpful. Thank you. Looks far better on my Mac Firefox.

Please could you ensure that the stylesheets are refreshed. Please click refresh, shift-refresh, or whatever it is on IE that forces it to completely reload.

DRT wrote:I like the idea of The Port Forum Olympics. Which sports would be included?

Vintage Port drinking. Tawny Port drinking. Beer Drinking. Triathlon.

Which suggests The Port Forum Olympics, for which I have a first draft of a handy logo.


(If anybody is sad enough to want to use this as an avatar, they are welcome to do so.)

Somebody should mention that we’re up for bronze. The BBC medals table shows the winners being — surprise! — non-Taipei China (they do have the most people); second being USA (having most money, albeit by a smaller margin than previously); and third place, with sixteen golds, the UK (perhaps becau...

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After much experimentation (since the colors look different here than they do on your "web safe colors" page), the best I can do is ••• #CC3300 ••• which isn't that far off of Derek's second. Do we have to use multiples of 3, or would something like ••• #EE5522 ••• work? Yes, I’m arbitrar...

No. That occupies more vertical space — one would have to scroll sooner and further.

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benread wrote:Any ideas how I get these back?

You ask me. On the case.

BackToTop uparrow has returned. That was more trouble, and less well done, than it ought to have been.

Private message pages also tidied. Comment welcomed.

Tawny port covers a range of pleasures and sins (not mutually exclusive). Nonetheless, for the purposes of designing the style for :TPF: a non- VP secondary colour is needed, a secondary colour that ought to go by the name “tawny†. Currently I am using ••• #CC9933 ••• as tawny. But DRT insists on c...

The new theme is great; I like it a lot and anyone on ProSilver should switch. Well, thank you kindly. I do wonder whether the header might change, though. To my eyes, it might look better if either the logo (or, if not the whole logo, just the letters) were re-drawn so it appeared smooth at a larg...

Do you know why the sugar in Port is mostly glucose? A look on the internet suggests both non-fortifed wines and grapes contain, very roughly speaking, equal quantities of both. An explanation, that I am inventing and for which I have no independent evidence, could be that fructose decays slowly in...

Fonseca Port 1992 ~ 12 @ $115 RP97, WS96 Fonseca Port 1994 ~ 6 @ $190 WS100, Decanter***** Fonseca Port 2000 ~ 3 @ $80 RP95+, ST95 Quinta do Infantado Port 1992 ~ 6 @ $67 RP95 Smith Woodhouse Port 1994 ~ 6 @ $45 RP90 Smith Woodhouse Port 1994 ~ 2 @ $45 RP90 nicked labels Warres Port 1994 ~ 12 @ $64...

benread wrote:Any ideas how I get these back?

You ask me. On the case.

Hmmmm. Refresh problem was my fault: strictly ASCII please — no “•† characters. So we have progress — please set your style to ThePortForumRed, and either marvel or make specific suggestions. And I know the jump-to-top graphic is a mess. And please, in the following why doesn’t the second set of ...

DRT wrote:I have noticed that a few of the buttons (such as Reply) seem to have hyperlinks hidded beneath them that are not very well hidded.

Hmm. Will work on that. (Except that none of my work will have any affect until the ‘refresh’ problem is fixed.)

Please just edit my post, putting your edits in green . For the purpose of the event, “punctual† means that after the appointed time we will not wait for late-comers. Of course we might have to wait for decanting and pouring, but non-arrival of expected people will stay neither our tasting nor our ...

Larger icons implemented. Comment welcome.

New colours can’t yet be enabled because of a strange bug that will, hopefully, be fixed soon.

According to my records: [Updated on Mon 18 Aug after email from DRT.] Cockburn Vertical at The Crusting Pipe, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8RD on Wednesday 8th October 2008 Evening session: 1895 (SL, in possession of SL); 1908 (SRC, in Boston); 1912 (AHB, in possession of AHB); 1924 (ADV, in possessi...

Derek won’t “bring† a dishwasher, as such. He is the dishwasher. Presumably.

Roy Hersh wrote:drying racks are easy to find and cheap. they make drying by hand a thing of the past.

No! NO! Drying racks leave water stains. You must, like absolutely by-Royal-Command must, dry with a clean cloth. Though, as Roy rightly says, when sober.

Hurray! The previous post came back with a URL of http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1029&p=17365#p17365 which omits the test directory. (Avoiding the implication of the “this is the BB of Alex, aged 14½!!!!!†! :-)) Next please: notifications to come from admin, not a personal ...

This is a test post as requested by admin.

Dow Port 1994 ~ 1 @ $76 RP96, WS97 Fonseca Port 1977 ~ 1 @ $100 WS100, MB**** signs of seepage Fonseca Port 2000 375ml ~ 1 @ $43 RP95, ST95 Quinta do Noval Silval Port 1997 ~ 1 @ $39 RP93, WS92 Quinta do Vesuvio Port 1995 ~ 1 @ $35 RP90, WS90 Taylor Port 1977 ~ 1 @ $135 WS98 signs of seepage Taylor...

Or at least photo thereof.

The idea of carrying round the Douro a decanter that I know to be faulty has, at best, little appeal. Let me see what comes — if great, yes. If not, I’ll share photos and we can proceed to version 2.