Site Design Changes

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Site Design Changes

Post by zabo » Fri May 17, 2013 9:59 am

Please excuse the design for a few days.
Unless we shut down the forums temporarily the only way to edit it is live.
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Re: Site Design Changes

Post by Xelmon » Fri May 17, 2013 11:01 am

DAH! It's all modern and fru-fru laden!

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Re: Site Design Changes

Post by hambone » Fri May 17, 2013 11:10 am

Is this Ikea?
It will be interesting to see how this develops, nice work. Didn't even know such a project was in process!
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Re: Site Design Changes

Post by Reid » Fri May 17, 2013 11:12 am

Is there a way to see the latest posts for the whole board?

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Post by airkooledchris » Fri May 17, 2013 11:37 am

Reid wrote:Is there a way to see the latest posts for the whole board?

the link on the site is missing currently, but you can still access it here:

http://itinerant-air-cooled.com/search. ... d=newposts

At one point it just showed all of the most recent posts in historical order. A year or more back it switched and then wouldn't show anything if you weren't logged in first, and now there's a time period when items are no longer considered 'new' and they are dropped off the search.
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Re: Site Design Changes

Post by zabo » Fri May 17, 2013 12:12 pm

Reid wrote:Is there a way to see the latest posts for the whole board?
its not missing-in the grey bar under "itinerant air-cooled"

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Re: Site Design Changes

Post by zabo » Fri May 17, 2013 2:03 pm

let me know if you all see any problems, the site looks great on a phone now too
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Post by hambone » Fri May 17, 2013 2:23 pm

Hey, that mission statement on the home page could mention the vast technical knowledge available here, not all come for the politix. Part of the Zen experience is fixing it your damn self.
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Re: Site Design Changes

Post by Reid » Fri May 17, 2013 2:34 pm

Oh, I see. I thought that icon was to make a new post, not read them. Thanks.

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Post by Gypsie » Fri May 17, 2013 3:56 pm

Trippy. I checked in this morning and then this afternoon blammo...It's a whole new place. I'm feeling a bit underdressed...
So it all started when I wanted to get better gas mileage....

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Post by zabo » Fri May 17, 2013 4:00 pm

hambone wrote:Hey, that mission statement on the home page could mention the vast technical knowledge available here, not all come for the politix. Part of the Zen experience is fixing it your damn self.
Agreed- maybe Colin can write something good
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Re: Site Design Changes

Post by glasseye » Fri May 17, 2013 6:02 pm

Holy crap, ay?
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Re: Site Design Changes

Post by SlowLane » Fri May 17, 2013 6:40 pm

So what the heck is the deal with this new trend in low-contrast, white-on-pale-grey-on-paler-grey user interfaces? It's not just here. Eclipse Juno did the same thing. Makes it virtually impossible to see certain useful features.

Though I do note that the spelling of "Font colour" has been corrected in the editing window button bar . :wink:
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Re: Site Design Changes

Post by zabo » Fri May 17, 2013 8:12 pm

SlowLane wrote:So what the heck is the deal with this new trend in low-contrast, white-on-pale-grey-on-paler-grey user interfaces? It's not just here. Eclipse Juno did the same thing. Makes it virtually impossible to see certain useful features. :wink:
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Re: Site Design Changes

Post by Kubelwagen » Fri May 17, 2013 8:23 pm

The whole thing is kind of hard to read - too bright.

I know it's a work in progress.

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