Tonight the site was migrated to the phpBB version 3 and the look was updated, thanks to the talents and skills of DaveW from EspressoParts!



Thanks are also due to Joey (multigl) for helping me work through the finer points of CSS/HTML. Thanks gentlemen! And of course thanks to the beta testers. I expect there will be a few buglets that escaped our collective notice; please note them here and I'll look into them. The "look" is a work in progress and your comments are welcome too.

A shock to the system but it does look pretty good. The more I look at it the more it feels right.

One request though? Please have a higher contrast between postings. When I scroll down or up the whole page bleeds into one color block. I'd like to see at least an option to adjust this. I also have a hard time telling where the breaks are between posts.

I also miss seeing the announcements on the main forum home page, but its nice to have them in each forum now though too.

Other than that it looks great, good work, its appreciated!

The font on the homepage for the 'Reviews, how-To, forums, etc... is real tiny. you need to change the size tag.

And in the buyers guide and review page

That's right - at least in Explorer. Not so bad in Firefox but font size is too large on the rest of the page.

Masthead banner ads are extending beyond the masthead trim and into the tan side bar.

Hello Dan, Just left a post on your beta site when I saw you started this one. Like anything new or changed, it will take a (short?) period of time getting used to. What immediately caught my attention is the font change--narrower & smaller which presents a problem with people afflicted with presbyopia. Would you consider the previous font style & size you used?

perstare

RapidCoffee wrote:That's right - at least in Explorer. Not so bad in Firefox but font size is too large on the rest of the page.

In IE7, with my laptop resolution, they are so small you cannot read it.

Shading difference between sequential posts is too small. It's hard to tell where one post ends and the next begins.

EDIT: I think the shading is dependent on a vertical gradient, stronger at the top of the screen. That can't be right.

RapidCoffee wrote:Shading difference between sequential posts is too small. It's hard to tell where one post ends and the next begins.

I agree. Additional contrast would appreciably assist the reader/poster.

perstare