New Website!

[spectroscopy]

i dont know if im the only one but i dont like the white background
i just find it really bright and a bit harsh. i really liked the old blueish background or maybe a muted grey or something

but either way atarnotes = life

[Russ]

When you say visually distinguish differences, what differences are you referring to?

The difference between a heading/hyperlink/title and regular text. I have difficult picking them apart without actually concentrating (ie it's not intuitive)

[brenden]

The difference between a heading/hyperlink/title and regular text. I have difficult picking them apart without actually concentrating (ie it's not intuitive)

Hmm okay - thanks for the feedback!

i dont know if im the only one but i dont like the white background
i just find it really bright and a bit harsh. i really liked the old blueish background or maybe a muted grey or something

but either way atarnotes = life

We had a look at the way the light bluey-grey colours alternated between posts on the old site after silverpixeli's suggestion, so the pure white background may change!

We'll soon add buttons exactly where they used to be for unread posts and unread replies, under the welcome message.

[achre]

i dont know if im the only one but i dont like the white background
i just find it really bright and a bit harsh. i really liked the old blueish background or maybe a muted grey or something

but either way atarnotes = life

I don't mind the bright background tbh, but I'm with you on preferring dimmer colours. If I'm ever using a website that lets you choose a colour scheme, I'll always go for the black or the dark blue/grey. Easier on the eyes, especailly at night.

[brenden]

One more bug: The layout of the "Look and Layout" section of the forum profile is... not ideal.

(Image removed from quote.)
This CSS rule is messing it up:

Code: [Select]

.windowbg2_profile input, .windowbg2_profile textarea {
  width: 70%;
}It might just need to be modified to exclude checkboxes (currently it's making the checkbox 70% of the field width, which is not expected )


Also the CSS and JavaScript are not combined or minified which means the initial page load takes longer than it could if it were more optimised.

Thanks so much! You're a champion

I don't mind the bright background tbh, but I'm with you on preferring dimmer colours. If I'm ever using a website that lets you choose a colour scheme, I'll always go for the black or the dark blue/grey. Easier on the eyes, especailly at night.

Good discussion, thanks guys. I understand now what people mean when they say it's "harsh". We'll definitely look at it.

Edit: The Notes things are all fixed. If anyone can't see the notes in the VCE section, just clear your cache and it should appear as it should (with some cool icons). For HSC Notes -- I'm uploading them again now.

[brenden]

PMs working

[Rod]

PMs working

About time ....

Haha jokes, thank you !!!

[Fyrefly]

Either ditch the freeze pane on the header or make it about a third of its current width.
I like the arrow on the bottom right you can click on to jump back to the top of the page.

Also please make the font smaller on the custom titles.
It's currently larger than usernames.

[keltingmeith]

I like the arrow on the bottom right you can click on to jump back to the top of the page.

Also, the fact that it slides up instead of an instant leap is really fun to watch. Much prefer that to an instant jump.

[silverpixeli]

I like the arrow on the bottom right you can click on to jump back to the top of the page.

Also, the fact that it slides up instead of an instant leap is really fun to watch. Much prefer that to an instant jump.

HOWEVER the arrow itself annoyingly continues scrolling a little past its final resting place in the footer if you scroll down slow enough near the bottom of the page, this could be fixed just for smoothness



Also RE: the rest of Fyrefly's post I would think that having a persistent navigation header OR a 'go to top' arrow would be sufficient for ease of navigation, rather than both. The current header definitely needs shrinking at least, as everyone has said, but that's a design change rather than a bug. I also think making it hide-able (and hidden by default, but shown using a floating button like the 'go to top' one) is a really neat solution.

[brenden]

Either ditch the freeze pane on the header or make it about a third of its current width.
I like the arrow on the bottom right you can click on to jump back to the top of the page.

Also please make the font smaller on the custom titles.
It's currently larger than usernames.

Yep, no idea what's going on with custom titles. Pi's is huge. Will fix.

We're also working on the header - it will be smaller, for sure, and then we'll see how people take it (also silverpixeli's suggestion above is a very cool one, so I'll put that forward). I'm not sure how much work is being done over the weekend, but I think the header will be changed quite quickly (in less than a week's time)


Edit: Have a look below the welcome message

[keltingmeith]

Something with the following banner - if you click to go to a post, you're navigated so that the top of your screen is the top of their post - but this doesn't take into account the banner, and so the top of their post is actually missing. Example of what I mean is attached. (thank you to my model, Fyrefly, for her contribution)

[cosine]

Something with the following banner - if you click to go to a post, you're navigated so that the top of your screen is the top of their post - but this doesn't take into account the banner, and so the top of their post is actually missing. Example of what I mean is attached. (thank you to my model, Fyrefly, for her contribution)

Hey bro you have a facebook notification make sure you check it out xD

[achre]

Hey bro you have a facebook notification make sure you check it out xD

Eh, it's probably just some commerce student flogging his marketing books on sellyourspace.

[keltingmeith]

Eh, it's probably just some commerce student flogging his marketing books on sellyourspace.

... Not sure if reference to past events or...
Dammit achre, be less creepy.