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Glenn E. wrote:I like the two alternating colors currently being used - I'll call them khaki and light khaki in case they change again.

jdaw1 wrote:

Glenn E. wrote:I like the two alternating colors currently being used - I'll call them khaki and light khaki in case they change again.

Good names: khaki = #dfdfbf; light khaki = #e7e7cf.

JacobH wrote:Any chance of purging the final bits of ProSilver blueness (I’m thinking particularly of the Board Index image: and the boarder of the text-box when replying to posts)?

JacobH wrote:

JacobH wrote:Any chance of purging the final bits of ProSilver blueness (I’m thinking particularly of the Board Index image: and the boarder of the text-box when replying to posts)?

Missed these two, too: and .

SushiNorth wrote:Regarding page width:
Most webpages do not make the entire page, left-to-right, one giant reading column. They use the left side for navigation, the right for portlets, and the reading columns are set up at about 600 pixels max. As most folks are now using tabs, too, this means the browser width is the same width for this site as it is for every other site -- aka I'm not going to change my browser width special for this site. Instead, I would recommend that a maximum width be placed on the column to spare those of us with wide screens the horrors of Carriage-Return Whiplash. Again, i am absolutely in favor of liquid width pages (where the page fills the whole screen, whatever size it might be), but not that the main text columns get out of control.

Here are a few references...
Jakob Nielsen, design guru, espousing liquid widths even as his own webpage restricts the max width of the reading column.
Web Design Layout Principles (see item 3)
Here are some other

jdaw1 wrote:OK. Comments noted. When the repairs already done are uploaded, I will attend to some of the additional complaints — beginning with the obvious but dull question, how do I set a maximum width? (And Jakob Nielsen is a real expert: his words carry great weight with me.)

jdaw1 wrote:

JacobH wrote:

JacobH wrote:Any chance of purging the final bits of ProSilver blueness (I’m thinking particularly of the Board Index image: and the boarder of the text-box when replying to posts)?

Missed these two, too: and .

Done, I think. Please do report other inappropriate blue in this thread.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1960&p=17533#p17533]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:

SushiNorth wrote:"Joined" isn't that relevant on every post, once we get to know each other, and the PM/Email option could go to the right of the user name.

Agreed on both. Please post in New Style thread.

SushiNorth wrote:"Joined" isn't that relevant on every post, once we get to know each other, and the PM/Email option could go to the right of the user name.

jdaw1 wrote:Currently buttons are:
• usually white, with red writing and a black border;
• except when hovering, when they become red with white writing and same black border.
Derek wishes to swap these modes, so they are usually red with white writing, and when hovering become white with red writing. Before doing this labour, are there other opinions?

jdaw1 wrote:

SushiNorth wrote:"Joined" isn't that relevant on every post, once we get to know each other, and the PM/Email option could go to the right of the user name.

If the PM etc buttons go to the right of the username, they make the name harder to read than if it stands on a line alone. So I don’t support that.

jdaw1 wrote:I have zapped the joined date. Objections?

jdaw1 wrote:I might also revert to having the rank on a line of its own, as long ranks wrap. Objections?

DRT wrote:Correction. Derek only wishes these to be swaped for buttons which sit outside posts or forums. Two examples are Reply and New Topic. These are currently white buttons on a white background, which makes them hard to identify as buttons. Buttons inside posts are white buttons on a coloured background, which makes them highly visible. I think the world can survive with some white buttons and some red buttons provided the context in which they are used is consistent.

jdaw1 wrote:

DRT wrote:Correction. Derek only wishes these to be swaped for buttons which sit outside posts or forums. Two examples are Reply and New Topic. These are currently white buttons on a white background, which makes them hard to identify as buttons. Buttons inside posts are white buttons on a coloured background, which makes them highly visible. I think the world can survive with some white buttons and some red buttons provided the context in which they are used is consistent.

I don’t like it, so first am trying much larger buttons.

jdaw1 wrote:I ...first am trying much larger buttons.

DRT wrote:A stylistic compromise: could the buttons outside posts and forums (including the "Go" buttons) have a light Khaki background instead of white?

jdaw1 wrote:

DRT wrote:A stylistic compromise: could the buttons outside posts and forums (including the "Go" buttons) have a light Khaki background instead of white?

Reply and New Topic done. OK?

Slightly tricksy to colour just the Go buttons. Easier to do all buttons of that format, or none.

DRT wrote: I like the new Reply and New Topic buttons

DRT wrote:But would it be pushing my luck to ask to have them larger?

SushiNorth wrote:Regarding max-width
I think we agreed to do this once things were a little more stable (and they're getting close now).
Let me know when you want me to take a crack at inserting the code, and point me at which CSS we're making changes in, and I'll send back changes for it
It might take me a few tries to get it right, which is what worries me. I'll test but we'll need to really check into it to be sure it works properly on the different page types.