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It's a bit wide, though. I'm at 1024x768 right now, and I need to make my browser window pretty dang wide --say, 90%+-- in order to see everything. Would it possible to make the center column (the news content) fluid, or at least a little narrower? Narrower columns are easier to read, too, FYI.
Oh, I'd also prefer the section icons to stick to the right-hand-side of their content areas, but that's just me.
Fantastic work, otherwise.
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Just wondering... will the news page be moved to www.enworld.org once the kinks are worked out? Because it's rather annoying if the top URL only shows a "This page has been moved" link.
It's a bit wide, though. I'm at 1024x768 right now, and I need to make my browser window pretty dang wide --say, 90%+-- in order to see everything. Would it possible to make the center column (the news content) fluid, or at least a little narrower? Narrower columns are easier to read, too, FYI.
Oh, I'd also prefer the section icons to stick to the right-hand-side of their content areas, but that's just me.
Fantastic work, otherwise.
I concur -- it's not adjusting properly in Mozilla/Firefox or Opera. The message boards handle it Ok, so I'm sure it's feasible for the main page, too.
Just wondering... will the news page be moved to www.enworld.org once the kinks are worked out? Because it's rather annoying if the top URL only shows a "This page has been moved" link.
They'll eventually be an autoforwarder. Proper forwarding of pages is still one of the major kinks we're working on. :\
I for one don't really like the new look on the main news page, especially since the other "new" look was so awesome with the curved line and the fluid page-design.
Also, where did all the funky yellow colours go from text in the forums etc., it really livened things up amid the orange, grey and black.
Also, is there any way for us to change what "modules" are displayed on the front page? I personally find the long list of recent message board threads along the right side to be a huge waste of space, and in a perfect world I'd be able to turn off that section of the page.
If there's no way to user define these things, can I request that the space be used for something else? I don't like/need "Latest Forum Topics," "Poll Randomly Selected From Message Boards," and the calendar.
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I really liked the news page just prior to this update, I really dislike it now.
It looks clumsy, too busy, not nearly as artistically pleasing as the old one. If this is the price for having a unified login I think the price is too high... Can we have the old news page back please? Pretty please?
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FWIW, I like the content of the new page, for the most part. The width and icon thing was my only complaint. I don't need the polls on the left (as it seems likeyou don't always get to see the whole question or context), but I like the current threads on the right.
Honestly, I think the new look is much cleaner and spiffier than ENWrold has ever been. Kudos!
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I really liked the news page just prior to this update, I really dislike it now.
It looks clumsy, too busy, not nearly as artistically pleasing as the old one. If this is the price for having a unified login I think the price is too high... Can we have the old news page back please? Pretty please?
Since I just say on another thread that this change means that the server is running one instance of vBulletin instead of that plus 3(!) instances of PostNuke, I unreservedly withdraw my complaint!
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Got a question: I love to use the "go to first new post" feature. I presume it is keyed to the last time I logged into the messageboard. Until now, I could visit the news page all I wanted, without resetting my "last visited" time on the messageboards. I am guessing that now, a visit to the news page will also count as a visit to the messageboards, right?
Not a big problem, but I'll have to aware that if I visited the news page since I was last on the boards, I can't completely trust the "go to first new post" feature.
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Got a question: I love to use the "go to first new post" feature. I presume it is keyed to the last time I logged into the messageboard. Until now, I could visit the news page all I wanted, without resetting my "last visited" time on the messageboards. I am guessing that now, a visit to the news page will also count as a visit to the messageboards, right?
Not a big problem, but I'll have to aware that if I visited the news page since I was last on the boards, I can't completely trust the "go to first new post" feature.
While on this topic, would it be possible to keep the info on last visit on a per-forum base instead of for all of ENWorld? I mean, just because I checked General last night it doesn't mean I also checked Meta...
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