These are the changes of 2 1/2 years?

[Elephant]

Edit: My concerns were better addressed up-thread. Besides, there's no reason to throw fuel on the embers, now, is there?

 

[Thanee]

My resolution is 800x600.

There is a very simple fix for your (main) problem with the site, and it isn't even very expensive...



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Bye
Thanee

 

[Draumr]

FireFox3 does not address the text wrapping problem - at least not on my PC.

As for the suggestion to invest in hardware, you miss the point: I'm running 1680x1050 but I am not willing to relegate the amount of desktop space to the browser that ENWorld2 is demanding. EN2 is requiring a simply inordinate amount of space to display correctly.

 

[Thanee]

He's using a *resolution* of 800x600, that's really not up to speed these days.

And if he can afford a new monitor... I would certainly consider getting one, as it is sooo much better to have a higher resolution.

Bye
Thanee

 

[hong]

I will agree that there's a bug with the main page, though: the box containing the lead article doesn't expand vertically to fit the text, if the screen isn't wide enough.

 

[Vempyre]

Design : limiting oneself to the fold is so yesterday

Although it's useful to take into account for the ads and the menus, limiting the rest of your design and content to it scraps a lot of great design concepts which would be better and more readable without limiting oneself to the fold.

 

[Haffrung Helleyes]

resolution

*the bug is fixed now, thanks!*

The bug where text flows over the border also occurs at 1024x768. That is the highest resolution available to me on my laptop.

As Morris alluded to earlier, I think it is a mistake to discount problems that people experience at low resolutions, because many more people will be browsing sites like this from PDAs in the future.

As for the front page...well I prefer a minimalist approach, so I liked it the old way better. But if the goal is to please advertisers, I understand the reasons for the change.

Ken

 

[roguerouge]

Why is there so much text overlap on the main page? Some of the text is running over top of each other. Still other text runs out of the lines of what I think were meant to be borders.

What I really want is all the news in one easy to read (scrollable) location. Where is that now? To make matters worse, I have to scroll left and right to read everything. What the heck guys? Is this seriously your final product? I'm better off visiting the Wizards site directly now!

As a teacher, I can tell you that this is not constructive feedback. Constructive feedback starts with the positive, goes to what needs work, then ends with something positive. I can tell you what my evaluations would be like if I wrote on a paper something like, "THIS is the result of your 12 years of schooling? Seriously?"

If you want to vent and be snarky, fine, but don't expect anything but that rudeness in return. If you want to actually make your voice heard and get something done, especially in an online forum, a little bit of tact goes a long way.

 

[Umbran]

As Morris alluded to earlier, I think it is a mistake to discount problems that people experience at low resolutions, because many more people will be browsing sites like this from PDAs in the future.

You speak of this as if it is simple - in general, a layout and design suited for a laptop or desktop machine just isn't suitable for a mobile device. Even 3G hand held devices simply don't have the download speeds to handle graphics-heavy websites. So, if you want to serve those devices, you need a completely different design.

Also, I think tabbed browsing is slowly putting an end to the idea of having everything in full on the front page of... well, any site.

 

[Umbran]

In general, folks, it helps if you are specific about what you're using when you report a bug. Screen resolution, operating system, browser and its version...

We have folks with Windows XP and Vista, Macs of various flavors. Firefox 2, Firefox 3, IE7, probably some IE 6, Safari, Opera...

The combinatorics get nasty, and they do matter. So please give full information.