Re: The new forum webpage

by JJJJJ Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:40 pm

BLESS YOU, KATERRA!!!!!!!!!!!!

It works!!!

Thank God and the Universe and Glorious Face Painters All Over the Globe!!!

I LIVE AND DIE by this forum.

So glad I can read it again.

(And no, everyone, I am NOT being dramatic Surprised

).

by Perry Noia Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:52 pm

pretty much anything on the Mac, if people say ctrl, switch it for command... there are very few programs that use ctrl on the Mac.

by JJJJJ Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:58 pm

Thanks, Perry. I'm gradually groping my way through computerland (born in 1962!). Love my Mac, though.

by Tilly - Formerly Punky Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:16 pm

I'm still a little on the fence about the new layout... LOVE the swirly purple background (what a coinkydink that it matches my new avitar! LOL! ) ... but the new icons and the smaller text I think are just going to need some getting used to. I don't want to complain, and I don't think I am... afterall, life is full of changes and we all have to learn to adapt. Havne't checked the shop out yet... I think I'm headed there next!

by JJJJJ Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:18 pm

The shop site is fantastic! GREAT improvement there! SOOOOO much easier to navigate, and it looks wonderful too!

by Tilly - Formerly Punky Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:25 pm

Whoa!!! LOVE THE NEW SHOP!! Very Happy

by a face painting mom Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:38 pm

Now that I made the font bigger, it looks great! Very Happy

by barbb919 Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:23 pm

I find the page to be to narrow and commenting on black is really hard to see..the rest of the page looks great

by barbb919 Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:35 pm

Im having a very hard time reading the forum but the pruple design behind thid narrow posts looks great..
im seeing double

by HillbillyDiva1 Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:58 am

It's better than a white page. Always count your blessings.

by anniel Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:30 am

Really Like the new format! Very inspiring & professional looking...and it's not hard to read at all if you zoom in.

by Tuli* Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:03 am

I like it a lot! Change is good:)

by alezmata Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:34 am

Hooray, for all the computer experts out there, Thanks for the tip, holding control while scrolling with the mouse solved my vision problem. Lovely new layout.

by CottonKandyClown Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:21 am

My MAC has the control key. I just hold it down and scroll the mouse up for bigger, down for smaller Smile

by Jody Rife Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:29 am

I feel so silly, I was straining to read and didn't know you could push control while scrolling and it would become bigger! Much better now. I really need to take a computer class. LOL Love the background swirls Metina. Smile

by Rae Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:55 am

Ooo I like the new format! Specially all those purple swirls. I also didn't know till now about the ctrl key for zooming in! Awesome. I get all my best education from the forum. lol

by Smiletime Wed Mar 07, 2012 7:13 am

Those of us with older eyes.....really need easier to read text. I can hardly see what I am typing. It is really small...I do love the overall LOOK of the page

by Rae Wed Mar 07, 2012 7:19 am

Smiletime.......I don't know if you noticed this post by Trina. This made all the difference to me and a few others by the look of it.

cattsy wrote:For anyone that is having trouble with the text size, if you have a scrolling mouse, hold down the CTRL key and scroll your wheel back and forth to make the text bigger or smaller.

Trina

by JBM Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:29 am

I like it overall but I find the text hard to read too... even with the zooming in option. Just a random thing but when I was researching web design for my webpage I found some stuff that said people spend less time on pages where the text is white on black, so maybe we'll all get more housework done???

by PerfectlyPaintedFaces Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:10 am

Yeah I'm not really loving this layout... there's so much wasted space on the sides, and I'm finding it difficult to see which topics have new comments, or which boards are most recently active. There are a few different colours going on and I'm not sure what they mean. Why are some board titles yellow and others white? Confusing... And having to manually change your font size is a bit user-unfriendly and doesn't really solve the underlying problems.

I know Metina is trying hard, but I really hope the forum doesn't stay like this... maybe it'd be worth hiring a web developer to fix it up a bit? scratch

by Jilly Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:16 am

Glad I saw this thread, I was wondering if I hit some setting on my own computer that made everything smaller.

by Manja Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:44 pm

Ohh, I like! Much easier on the eyes than the white. Phew! White backgrounds make my eyes tired really fast and cause me to go blurry a lot sooner than darker backgrounds.

TRINA - I'm thrilled with this newfound trick you shared with the ctrl key/scroll/zoom thing! WooHoo! So clueless.

It looks very professional, Metina. Don't know yet about the total layout... will see after I hang out awhile.

by JJJJJ Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:27 pm

Is anyone having this problem: some of the topics I open have page sizes that go practically from one side of the screen to the other. THe sentences are so long, and I have to move the blue bar at the bottom to move the page so I can read the sentence from left to right. Then, some pages are more narrowly confined within the black section, and it's a little easier. On some, I get to the bottom and I then have to use the blue bottom bar to move the page sideways so I can click to continue to the second or third page of the topic.

Overall, this is really distressing. It's not at all easy to just read this forum right now.

I'm not complaining. I'm just sharing this as input for Metina, because this is what is happening out here in computerland.

Change is okay, and I always go with it. But this is just making it really really laborious to navigate the site. And I love this site. SO hopefully this input is helpful in case some things still need tweaking.

Surprised

) Joan

by Daizy Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:19 pm

The page sizes becoming wide are usually caused by photos that are too big. If you have zoomed in then the photos are going to become even bigger.

I actually like going to a post where the photo has widened it... for some reason I am having a hard time adjusting to everything being in a tiny strip down the middle.

by JJJJJ Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:21 pm

I'm having trouble with the tiny strip down the middle too. The old one was just wide enough for the reading to be pleasant and be quickly scanned. The switches from wide to narrow and all the extra navigation input with adjusting the blue bar and sliding it this way and that really gets in the way of a smooth navigation. I LOVE ADORE this forum. I hope that it gets streamlined and easier again.

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