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Brandlin
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« on: May 06, 2010, 12:21:02 pm »

As your forum is so new that the welcome mat doesn't have hoof prints on it yet, I thought I'd drop a couple of improvement comments!

I love the feel of the site, the branding and theme of the rule book is consistently applied here... However its always difficult to get computer type and colouring to look right on parchment backgrounds.

It's hard to spot a link in this theme. (Take a look at my sig) You can't easily see that "Brandlin's Blog" is a link unles you mouse over it. Can you make links a new colour.

A lot of the information on the pages merges together. Some form of boundary or delimiter between forum areas and topics and individual threads would help structure the pages better. at the moment its hard to see where one topic/thread stops and the next starts. bolder/bigger text for thread titles wuld help here too i think.

Congrats on getting this up and running though - I hope you get lots of discussion and comment. I'll certainly be around!! Cheesy

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« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2010, 02:12:45 pm »

Hi , just to quickly expand on the "merging" effect. Its very difficult to see where one post ends and another starts.

Example here is Brandlins sig merges into the next post.
http://www.worldoftwilight.com/forum/index.php?topic=3.0

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same for this one lol.......and forgot to say I like the colours and style.
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« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2010, 02:16:58 pm »

I like it, it's nice and open. Don't listen to all these fuddy duddies Cheesy

But please add in something so that when you post a message it directs you to the thread you just posted in and not back to the forum the thread is in
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« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2010, 02:24:11 pm »

I'm a fan of the skin.

Hyperlinks could be underlined rather than another colour, and that can be by posters.
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« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2010, 03:28:37 pm »

The forum clock is wrong too.....I had to offset time by 8 hours in my profile  Tongue
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« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2010, 05:41:44 pm »

I'm currently looking at this on my blackberry, so not getting the full benefit of the fancy skin! I do like it though, and I think I should do a few random extra bits. Anybody know how to create smilies?
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« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2010, 07:20:53 pm »

Frayed knot

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By the way, there is no link to here from your WoT website (tut tut)
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« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2010, 07:24:39 pm »

I'm currently looking at this on my blackberry, so not getting the full benefit of the fancy skin! I do like it though, and I think I should do a few random extra bits. Anybody know how to create smilies?

That's a good point - you really should make sure the WAP version is useable.
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« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2010, 07:55:23 pm »

By the way, there is no link to here from your WoT website (tut tut)

that's cos the site isn't officially open yet Wink

That's a good point - you really should make sure the WAP version is useable.
yup, dat's true. Works on my blackberry and jules' iPhone. I haven't got any other phones to test it on!
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« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2010, 08:26:06 pm »

Works fine on my htc magic too  Smiley
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« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2010, 09:06:33 pm »

By the way, there is no link to here from your WoT website (tut tut)

that's cos the site isn't officially open yet Wink

That's a good point - you really should make sure the WAP version is useable.
yup, dat's true. Works on my blackberry and jules' iPhone. I haven't got any other phones to test it on!

I'm using a Samsung Omni running a windows OS, with Opera Browser.  This is getting all the fancy layout - which makes it slow, and the dark backround is shown in full, followed by the lighter parchment pictures... meaning i have to scroll several screens down past the very dark brown background to get to any content. Might be easier to disable to background images for the WAP version?

Although this is hardly a priority issue.
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« Reply #11 on: May 09, 2010, 10:25:12 pm »

The forum clock is wrong too.....I had to offset time by 8 hours in my profile  Tongue

I think I've managed to sort that, although apparently it shows the server time, not the user's time. And the server's in England.
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« Reply #12 on: May 09, 2010, 10:37:10 pm »

I like it, it's nice and open. Don't listen to all these fuddy duddies Cheesy

Thanks! I might look into putting a gentle dividing line, just to help discern different posts, but I mainly wanted to get rid of the default boxy look!

But please add in something so that when you post a message it directs you to the thread you just posted in and not back to the forum the thread is in

I ... I have no idea how to do that. I'll see if I can do it in the PHP code, but if it's written into the sourcecode, I'm afraid I'm not going to recompile my own version!
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« Reply #13 on: May 09, 2010, 10:39:53 pm »

By the way, there is no link to here from your WoT website (tut tut)

Well spotted Smiley  Hopefully the "Twilight" logo in the top left should now link you back there. I might also see about adding a new button to the sections bar, next to "Home", if people think it won't otherwise be found?
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« Reply #14 on: May 09, 2010, 10:46:01 pm »

That's a good point - you really should make sure the WAP version is useable.

I'm using a Samsung Omni running a windows OS, with Opera Browser.  This is getting all the fancy layout - which makes it slow, and the dark backround is shown in full, followed by the lighter parchment pictures... meaning i have to scroll several screens down past the very dark brown background to get to any content. Might be easier to disable to background images for the WAP version?

Although this is hardly a priority issue.

Progress will be slow, because I don't have any kind of phone to test it through! However, I've had a random hack at some CSS labelled "wireless", to hopefully remove the background. Let me know if it's made any difference!
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