Um, I'm not sure I like this. Right now I'm typing into an orange box and it's really hard to read.

Also, are you able to change the colors of some of the buttons anymore? they don't quite match.

Oohhh, these colors are making me queasy...

DiGNAN

Colours look okay to me - i think some of the old buttons are hanging around so you
might want to try a page reload.

Apart from that you should be seeing the bbs in the old colours unless you've changed
the scheme under Edit Profile -> Display Prefs...

Cheers

{aul

> Um, I'm not sure I like this. Right now I'm typing into
> an orange box and it's really hard to read.

I don't see that. I see completely plain text and forms.
Excellent. I love (disabled) stylesheets.

Paul

Hmm, my colors are OK, but for some strange reason, after the new BBS code was installed, I had to go into my profile and set the display order back to "Descending Date" because the messages were coming up with the oldest ones listed first. This didn't happen on the "test" version of the 5.1.1 code I looked at yesterday.

Is it possible that some user profiles got slightly glitched during the transfer?

In any case, now everything is fine for me after I made that one change. For any users experiencing trouble with the new BBS, I would suggest the following:

- Clear your browser's cache and cookies.
- Log into the BBS and poke around your user profile to make sure all the settings are OK.

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Tony Fabris

Um, I'm not sure I like this. Right now I'm typing into an orange box and it's really hard to read.

I'm with you, all of the text boxes and list boxes have black text on a bright orange background. Also, it would seem that the check boxes are surrounded by a small orange border as well. I tried choosing another color scheme, applying it, then changing it back, but that didn't seem to work.

P.S. I'm running IE5.5 on Win2000.

Michael Grant
12GB Green
080000266

This is not a cookie/cached stylesheet issue (I have cleared my cache, but I'm not about to clear all my cookies).

The box I am typing into is bright orange and the text is 8 point in size.

Here is the HTML for the reply page:

<textarea cols="80" rows="5" class="formboxes" wrap="soft" name="Body"></textarea>

And the matching stylesheet entry:

.formboxes
{
FONT-SIZE: 8pt;
COLOR: #000000;
FONT-FAMILY: geneva, arial, sans-serif;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ff9900
}

What it looks like:

Loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads of text

It's a knightmare to read and very difficult to use the scrollbar successfully, I've got a headache after putting together this post.

So removing the font size and more sane colors settings would give:

Loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads of text

That's:

.formboxes
{
COLOR: #CCCCCC;
FONT-FAMILY: geneva, arial, sans-serif;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: #444466
}

Someone is going to have to do some work on the stylesheet.

By the way the buttons are bright green !

What browser are you using Tony ? (I am using IE5.5 on Win2KSP1)

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Unit serial number 47 (was 330 in the queue)...

I'm also typing in an orange box. The dropdowns and the borders around the checkboxes are orange as well. I've played around with the preferences and the other ones will change the color of these controls. So it appears that the empeg skin has orange explicitely defined. Some of my buttons are green as well.

I'm using IE 5.5.

-Dylan

Changing the skin does work though, I have just changed to "desert" which is alot less painful than the current empeg one. It still has 8pt text boxes, but at least the background isn't orange (I also tried the large font version, but that was just too big).

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Unit serial number 47 (was 330 in the queue)...

Yeah, you guys are right. The orange box thing is present on IE5 but not on Nutscape.

Other problems in IE5 (already reported): Green button faces and orange borders around check boxes.

Sounds like (as was already suggested) just a couple of tweaks are needed to the style sheet for the "empeg" style.

Paul, are you listening?

Ah well, growing pains.

PS: There are still orange borders around some check boxes even in Netscape.



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Tony Fabris

I think the best skin in the list is "the blues", it has a sensible size font everywhere and the colors are quite relaxing.

In fact, I quite like it...

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Unit serial number 47 (was 330 in the queue)...

See, it's not just me. plus, why would I have changed anything, I didn't know the BB had been upgraded. So no, I didn't choose a scheme and didn't know how until you told me. Plus, the headings on every post I see are purple.

My buttons aren't green, they're light blue.

DiGNAN

I'm sorry, I do have green butons. I was tlaking about the "Add New Post" and "Reply" buttons like at the top of the forum or the headings.

DiGNAN

Woah. Please tell me that the time offset option wasn't there before. That is a very cool feature. Now I won't have to live in crazy England time

DiGNAN

Nope thats a new feature - but if you but it back 12 hours you will still have the
problems with the dodgy colo(u)rs

I also like that instead of the header saying you replied to a certain post #, it shows the name of the person you're replying to.

If you can get these color problems fixed, the new board will look very cool.

DiGNAN

Okay colour problems should be mostly fixed. The new buttons in purple/blue you are probably stuck
with atm.

Any other major colour problems tht you can spot?

Paul

Yeah, the link from the empeg geek site to this site points to http://empeg.comms.net
This link gives an error page - Forbidden.

Frank van Gestel

Not a colour problem though..

Edited by fvgestel on 11/01/00 08:57 PM.

I don't seem to have a problem with colors, but the font size is a little small for me. Granted, I run at 1600x1200 small fonts... The old version had a font size preference that was quite handy... IE5.x's built in text size option seems to be ignored by the board software as well...?

Anyway... nice to see the board still runs. I was hoping to find the "Latest software" heading above to be changed to "Version:1.1"... oh well.

Brian H. Johnson
MK2 36GB Blue
"Born to Lose..."

I'll do a large font version of the empeg color scheme tommorow time permitting.

I didn't realise they had done away with the settings to increase the font size.

I suspect the IE thing is a CSS thing - weird. Works okay with mozilla!

Cheers

Paul

that one should be fixed.

Paul

Cool, most of the color things are okay now. Grey is fine I suppose, better that orange. Did you change it to that so the area around the check-boxes didn't look as wierd? I can understand why.

You say the purple button thing. it's not purple buttons, it's a purple border. In every message I have, the area where the "edit" and "reply" buttons are is purple. It's really awful.

DiGNAN

The checkbox thing varies from browser to browser -
it looks fine in Mozilla :-)

I haven't seen this purple button issue - can you let me
know what browser you are seeing this in - or better
still send me a screen capture of it!

I've tried a few browsers here and haven't seen anything
to bad apart from the checkbox weirdness.

Cheers

paul

I've included a screenshot of the same thing I think he is describing. This is how IE5.5 looks when I entered the forum this morning, without going into the profile options and modifying the scheme at all.

--verteggio

Here's a screen shot of it, as his doesn't seem to work. As I said, it's not a button problem, it's with part of the table.

DiGNAN

Okay, mine doesn't seem to work either. maybe it's just my browser (I'm running IE 5.0)

DiGNAN

Can you please try to upload the file attachement again
as this one seems to be broke.

Cheers

Paul

Attempt number two... although DiGNAN17 tried to upload one as well and it didn't work, so maybe an issue with the software and attachments??

I'll go ahead and send it via email as well =)

--verteggio

I can't get that one either. I think 3 in a row means a problem.

By the way, PaulH. Stop me if I missed something, but how can I email you? You said in your announcement that we should email you with problems, but there's no address in your profile.

DiGNAN

Aaarrrhgghghghh!

Firstly, it no longer remembers to display the pages in Tahoma (my preferred style). In fact, there no longer seems to be any option for specifying a font in the display preferences at all.

And now the nice orangey-yellow buttons are being gradually, insidiously replaced by strange lilac ones with writing on them! Oh, the horror! It's too much change at once, I tell you! Put it back! Please, put it baaaaaaaack!

*sobs uncontrollably*

Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs.

Ha, yeah, I miss the orange buttons too. I think he said he's working on it, but I'm not quite sure. All I know is that these new buttons do not match the color scheme.

DiGNAN

could it be the 'Email BBS Admin' at the bottom of each page?

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Murray 06000047

Me = dumb

okay, tell me if you get my email Paul.

DiGNAN

This came up on the w3t users forum ... the next rev of w3t will allow for mating of "button-sets" with a particular (or multiple) CSS's. So you could use the pretty blue lilac like ones for CSS's 1,2, and 3, and the orange ones for 4,5 and 6, or things like that.

D

Yes the font selection has been moved into the stylesheets so isn't user selectable.

I agree about the buttons - hopefully the next release will allow you to have diffrent
button sets with diffrent stylesheets - until then you are stuck with the blue ones
with the writing on!

Hopefully the new features of this code release make it worthwhile?!

Cheers

Paul
Paul

Okay who wants the orange buttons and who wants the lilac ones?

Cheers

Paul

file upload!

count one for orange
a poll someone? i'm cr@p at doing it.

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Murray 06000047

Yup... works.
Count me in for Orange buttons.


_~= Dearing =~_
"WAY too happy about having #99."

Okay due to popular demand the Orange buttons are back!

You may need to do a shift reload in your browser to get it
to pick up the changes.

Cheers

Paul

Looks great, Paul!
Thanks

_~= Dearing =~_
"WAY too happy about having #99."

Looks much better now -- orange buttons and a dark blue background for the message header section.. sweet!

--verteggio

Hey Paul, if you are still reading this is it possible to set a background color for those of us (probably just me) whose browser-o-choice does not support stylesheets? The old version had the background color set to black (looked just like the empeg style sheet), but now it is white which just doesn't work with the other colors/graphics.

-Mike

> set a background color for those of us (probably just me)
> whose browser-o-choice does not support stylesheets?

Seems that it not only has to support stylesheets, it has to
support javascript as well. So I'm with Mike.

Paul

BTW after all the work in the upgrade and modifying the stylesheets, as well as keeping it operational, the board is looking really good (at least fo most of us ).
Good work PaulH

congrats. So good to have this forum.

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Murray 06000047

I've just noticed a curious thing. I look at the forum index and select the last post for the previous day with new news items. I then use the 'previous post' buttons on the page to step through the posts.
Sometimes I when i get to the last post (most recent) and press the 'previous' button again, I go to the First post (least recent) i looked at in that forum. can someone check this behaviour so i know whether it's my browser or not.



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Murray 06000047