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| 28 NOV 2005 at 8:33am |
SarahJourneyman
Posts : 913
Joined: 13 JUL 2004
Status : Offline | [highlight]I have to say well done Val!![/highlight]
[highlight]I like it[/highlight]
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Still busy being a mom &&
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 9:45am |
Chris.Schattenjger
Posts : 1842
Joined: 8 MAR 2005
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Agustin (28 NOV 2005 4:48am)
ARGH!! Too white!!
MAKE IT STOP!
Yep, I have to agree with that. Maybe it's ok on a CRT monitor, but I can hardly read a lot of stuff because it's so pale.
And damn you Val! I was so close to being a Grand Master (well...not really...) but now I'm a bloody Schattenthingy again! >
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 9:54am |
snowtimeJourneyman
Posts : 1014
Joined: 28 JUN 2005
Status : Online | Congratulations on the upgrade. I'm glad the sacrifices were deemed acceptable by the gods of software.
By the way, on the issue of levels, would it not have been possible to introduce a few more levels rather than just make the existing ones more difficult to obtain? Just a thought...
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 10:49am |
Alan ThornSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 240
Joined: 8 JUN 2005
Status : Online | Congratulations on your upgrade.
However, I can't view this forum in firefox. It claims in an error popup:
"Redirection limit for this URL exceeded. Unable to load the requested page. This may be caused by cookies that are blocked."
Anybody know how to solve this?
Thanks.
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 11:16am |
snowtimeJourneyman
Posts : 1014
Joined: 28 JUN 2005
Status : Online | Alan
Try checking to see if you have inadvertently blocked cookies from the site
Open up FireFox
Got to Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies
Click Exceptions
You could try removing all sites from the Exceptions list and clearing all your cookies.
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 11:58am |
Alan ThornSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 240
Joined: 8 JUN 2005
Status : Online | Originally Posted By snowtime (28 NOV 2005 11:16am)
Alan
Try checking to see if you have inadvertently blocked cookies from the site
Open up FireFox
Got to Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies
Click Exceptions
You could try removing all sites from the Exceptions list and clearing all your cookies.
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Thank ye, kind sir. Works splendidly in Firefox now
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 12:05pm |
snowtimeJourneyman
Posts : 1014
Joined: 28 JUN 2005
Status : Online | Glad to be of assistance.
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 12:34pm |
ShanyGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 19 JUN 2003
Status : Online | Woo! Finally a spoiler tag! The forum looks nice but I have have some issues-
-I can't change the font size from Internet Explorer, which I could do in the old forum. The letters are so small, it's driving me nuts!
- For some reason the scroll button on my mouse only works part of the time when viewing posts, but this might be my mouse acting up.
- The page keeps moving from the middle to the left of the screen, it's so weird...
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 12:53pm |
snowtimeJourneyman
Posts : 1014
Joined: 28 JUN 2005
Status : Online | Shany
Try this
Tools > Internet Options > Choose the "General" tab
Click the "Accessibility button
Put a tick in the box next to "Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages"
Click OK
Click OK
You should now be able to resize the fonts
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 1:21pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
Posts : 5696
Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | How am I supposed to access my PM's?! I can't see any button...
Ack. My eyes are burning [smiley=boggled.gif]
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 1:38pm |
MorgausePrivate Detective
Posts : 687
Joined: 2 SEP 2004
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Agustin (28 NOV 2005 1:21pm)
How am I supposed to access my PM's?! I can't see any button...
Ack. My eyes are burning [smiley=boggled.gif]
All the way up, you should see a "Hey, Agustin, you have 80 messages, 0 are new." Click on 80 messages, and you will be brought to your inbox. I think there is also a link in Profile somewhare.
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 1:40pm |
ValGuild Master
Posts : 3464
Joined: 2 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | PMs: at the top of the screen it says "hey, xxx, you have xx message, x are new."
Glad you all like the new forum. I only slept 4 out of 48 hours for your foruming pleasure. An old saying comes to mind... "you get more flies with honey than vinegar".
Actually, nothing is white on this forum (the alternating post windos are off white)... however if some of you are seeing brightness, I can darken the colors. I'll look at the forum at work where I have a lcd monitor too. The text is almost black so I don't know what text people are referring to... if it's some place in particular, let me know so I can work on it.
What I'll do with post count since everyone is so happy with that as well - I'll revert back to the other number BUT we NEED to add some higher categories after Grand Master.
Insert possible names here:
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Snowtime - yes, the stylesheet uses "hard" size fonts and I agree, hard sizing isn't the most desirable thing. I have edited the stylesheet for lots of other stuff but haven't messed with the font sizes.
This new version of the forum really has some great features and, big issue, is tons more secure.
If there's anything I forgot to address, I'll add it later...
We can be heroes, just for one day.
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 1:40pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
Posts : 5696
Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | Thanks although that wasn't very obvious!
I vote for a fancy button.
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 1:49pm |
ValGuild Master
Posts : 3464
Joined: 2 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | I just visited the old forum to remind myself of the color scheme there... it's almost identical! Some of the blues here are lighter - is that what you are referring to Agustin? In fact, there's less white here than the old forum (background here is blue and was white at the old forum). I'll darken some of the pale blues to help though (it will be later though because I have to go to the day job).
We can be heroes, just for one day.
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 1:56pm |
snowtimeJourneyman
Posts : 1014
Joined: 28 JUN 2005
Status : Online | Really appreciate your work. Thanks. Personally, I don't have a problem with the "white". Agustin's probably been spending too long in dark cellars.
Originally Posted By Valadmin (28 NOV 2005 1:40pm)
What I'll do with post count since everyone is so happy with that as well - I'll revert back to the other number BUT we NEED to add some higher categories after Grand Master.
Insert possible names here:
Actually, could you keep Grand Master as the top and make it harder to obtain and insert some other levels below
Apprentice
Journeyman (qualified apprentice and reference to Journeyman Project - OK could be problems with gender bias)
Explorer
Junior Enchanter (from Zork GI)
Private Investigator
Super Sleuth
Schattenjaeger
Guru
Grand Master
Or how about just substituting the levels wholesale with those from Zork GI
PermaSuck Salesman
PermaSuck Regional Sales Manager
Luckless Adventurer
Acolyte Spellcaster
Junior Enchanter
Enchanter
Assistant Sorcerer
Sorcerer
Executive Spell Manager
Vice Wizard
Wizard
Uber Wizard
Dungeon Master
[edit]Perhaps we should hold a contest for new level suggestions.[/edit]
[edit]Rather than "guests" they could be "mysterious strangers"[/edit]
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 1:59pm |
snowtimeJourneyman
Posts : 1014
Joined: 28 JUN 2005
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Valadmin (28 NOV 2005 1:48pm)
I just visited the old forum to remind myself of the color scheme there... it's almost identical! Some of the blues here are lighter - is that what you are referring to Agustin? In fact, there's less white here than the old forum (background here is blue and was white at the old forum). I'll darken some of the pale blues to help though (it will be later though because I have to go to the day job).
I think some people are having trouble with the headings (white text on coloured background) maybe making some of those blues a bit darker would help.
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 2:24pm |
Chris.Schattenjger
Posts : 1842
Joined: 8 MAR 2005
Status : Online | There's a lot of white on light blue, or vice-versa, which is very difficult for me to read
Also, it looks like the clock is half an hour out.
Re: the categories, how many can you have? Also, I think they should all be adventure game related (or are they already? Was Grand Master from Broken Sword?)
I like Snowtime's "Journeyman"
My suggestions:
0 - 50 Investigative Reporter (Laura Bow)
50 - 100 Private Detective (Tex Murphy)
100 - 250 Journeyman (Journeyman Project)
250 - 1000 Schattenjäger (Gabriel Knight)
1000 - 2500 Mighty Pirate (Monkey Island)
2500 - 5000 Draic Kin (Longest Journey)
5000+ Grand Master (Broken Sword)
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 2:25pm |
Chris.Schattenjger
Posts : 1842
Joined: 8 MAR 2005
Status : Online | Originally Posted By snowtime (28 NOV 2005 1:56pm)
Rather than "guests" they could be "mysterious strangers"
Or Nabuhitian Agents
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 5:08pm |
SkyeSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 348
Joined: 20 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Shany (28 NOV 2005 12:33pm)
- The page keeps moving from the middle to the left of the screen, it's so weird...
Hey, I have this problem too. I thought it was because I am using AOL, it can cause a lot of problems because of its 'architecture'
Glad to see I'm not alone
Skye
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 5:43pm |
ValGuild Master
Posts : 3464
Joined: 2 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | quote from Aya in Off Topic regarding this issue:
there were 2 choices: optimize the forum to look descent for 800x600 but look kinda crappy on ALL other resolutions, or optimize it to look good on all other resolutions and do the jumpy thingy on 800x600... there are only very few sites left that support (or are made for) 800x600... so the remedy for that would be changing your windows resolution to 1024x768 or higher
I'm quoting because I couldn't have worded it better!
We can be heroes, just for one day.
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 5:51pm |
ValGuild Master
Posts : 3464
Joined: 2 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Chris. (28 NOV 2005 2:24pm)
There's a lot of white on light blue, or vice-versa, which is very difficult for me to read
Ok, I'm viewing this from an lcd screen now and it actually looks less bright and has better contrast! I don't understand what people are seeing so please take a screenshot so I can see the "brightness" issue.
We can be heroes, just for one day.
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 5:58pm |
IviniaGuild Master
Posts : 4459
Joined: 7 JUN 2003
Location: US
Status : Offline | Val - I think it had more to do with the font sizes. The smaller fonts mad for a lot of 'whitespace' and made it seem brighter. My fonts are set to 'ignore the font sizes on web pages' so they look are much easier to read and consequently the screen looks less 'bright'.
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 7:53pm |
ValGuild Master
Posts : 3464
Joined: 2 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Well, I'm going to make the 2 lighter blues darker. Forum going down in 5 mins!!
[edit]Agustin, this looks really dark to me (column and post window colors)... how is it looking for you?[/edit]
We can be heroes, just for one day.
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| 28 NOV 2005 at 8:26pm |
Chris.Schattenjger
Posts : 1842
Joined: 8 MAR 2005
Status : Online | That looks a lot better to me
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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