Date: 10-21-05 01:46 From: f1reverb Subject: Your 25 messages take eight screens from
top to bottom regardless of my font settings. There is way too much white-space on each page. One screen only has five messages at maximum. This is on 800x600, but it's not much better at 1024x768. I think you need to tighten the page layout to get rid of the excess white-space between post subject lines. Again, my dialup speed issues are non-existent, and the GMT problem seems to have been solved.
Date: 10-21-05 02:03 From: Inka Subject: Re: Your 25 messages take eight screens from
[quote="f1reverb"]There is way too much white-space on each page. [/quote]
I agree. The font is huge too or something. It just doesn't seem like we're making the best use of our screen space.
Love the new format, though. Good work Steve and anyone else that helped.
Robert
Date: 10-21-05 03:31 From: f1reverb Subject: It's not the font size . . .
but the layout. It's as if you were in a text-only mode and you had double and triple line-spacing between posts and the post separators. It should not take eight full screens to view one page that is in reality very short in length if you removed all the extra spacing. All you get when you reduce font size is the same spacing with smaller text.
Date: 10-21-05 05:34 From: steve k. in Redwood City, CA Subject: Re: It's not the font size . . .
Ah, those messages. it hought you were talkign about a list. We can eddit the number of messages too. and clean up the format. I think mike, zachary and I are now happy that you guys are complaining about theline spacing and number of messages per screnn. that means that the rest is working pretty well :)
Date: 10-21-05 06:53 From: Inka Subject: Re: It's not the font size . . .
Yeah, you guys are kicking butt. I'm thrilled by the new format. Performance issues are better, etc. Just some minor tweaking and all will be right in the world...
Date: 10-21-05 08:01 From: f1reverb Subject: You've been doing a fine job cleaning-up problems . . .
and listening to suggestions. I'm real happy that the site is so compatible with my wfw311/ie302 setup. It's funny you mention the page-loading speed, as one of my friends with cable-modem loads the old main page (and e9coupe.com) a lot slower than my dialup. Once you get the main forum page (for each particular forum) to have tighter spacing so at least we can get some idea of the overall posting (including threaded when you solve that issue) at a glance on a screen or two it will be just about perfect.
Date: 10-22-05 12:36 From: mmccurdy in SF, CA Subject: Re: You've been doing a fine job cleaning-up problems . . .
f1reverb wrote:
and listening to suggestions. I'm real happy that the site is so compatible with my wfw311/ie302 setup. It's funny you mention the page-loading speed, as one of my friends with cable-modem loads the old main page (and e9coupe.com) a lot slower than my dialup. Once you get the main forum page (for each particular forum) to have tighter spacing so at least we can get some idea of the overall posting (including threaded when you solve that issue) at a glance on a screen or two it will be just about perfect.
I've tightened up the spacing and gotten rid of the table format... thoughts?
Date: 10-22-05 12:55 From: Matt_P in Columbia, SC Subject: Re: You've been doing a fine job cleaning-up problems . . .
The Table format was nice, but the new spacing is a lot better. Couldn't you use the table format like before, and keep the most recent post info on one line?
Date: 10-22-05 12:56 From: mmccurdy in SF, CA Subject: Re: You've been doing a fine job cleaning-up problems . . .
Matt_P wrote:
The Table format was nice, but the new spacing is a lot better. Couldn't you use the table format like before, and keep the most recent post info on one line?
Working on the recent post info problem right now... I'll try a few things and see what works.
Date: 10-22-05 12:57 From: Matt_P in Columbia, SC Subject: Re: You've been doing a fine job cleaning-up problems . . .
I think you're on the right track, but you either need to cut down on the info to the right of the post title, or work on the spacing a little bit.
Date: 10-22-05 01:02 From: Matt_P in Columbia, SC Subject: Re: You've been doing a fine job cleaning-up problems . . .
Wow, that was quick, it looks really good.
Date: 10-22-05 01:13 From: Inka Subject: Bravo!
Yes, that looks way better. I'd still like to be able to view more messages per page, but I understand the bandwidth considerations.
Great job!
Robert
Date: 10-22-05 02:11 From: f1reverb Subject: An amazing reduction from eight screens to . . .
three for the General Discussion main page! I can live with it this way and I see others like it too. Now I would like to see the date/time (I like of the original post, but the latest one in a thread is ok). I was wondering if the little links before and after the subject in a thread-starting post are really necessary and might be wasting space. The front one says "View Latest Post" and the end one says "View Newest Post" which to me are the same thing. When you click the main subject you'll find the latest anyway, and since a post is near the top you'll know it has a recent reply. Also, to give yourself more room on the subject line might it not be better to abbreviate the "replies" "views" "last post" to R/V/LP and just have a little guide (or Wegweiser -- all puns intended) at the top of the page that R means replies etc.? With the abbreviations and eliminating those newest/latest links you'd have room for the date/time of the main post (or the latest reply which caused it to move up the pecking-order).
Anyway, fine and speedy work. Since I don't believe good work should remain unrewarded, if you ever need some photos for the site that I could shoot for you, let me know and I'll make my contribution toward your efforts.
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