Forum Technical Help

[Laurad]

Thanks DEF, clever of you to find the right CSS text - how did you know where to look for the style? I've made it "small" instead of "x-small" - it looks much better.

You're right, clicking on the font size and style do nothing - it just puts tags there and you have to change them. This is something for me to tackle when I have more time. Thank you for pointing it out. I manually made it size 12, which is why the text is larger.

[Dutch Eagle Fan]

how did you know where to look for the style?

I use Webdeveloper, as an add-on for Firefox.
Because I make the style(s) for my own forum and am using css for my own website, I know a little about where to look and what to look for   

[PattiO]

   So basically I need to brush up on my HTML.   

[Dutch Eagle Fan]

  So basically I need to brush up on my HTML.   

Never hurts 

[Laurad]

Thanks DEF, I know about styles too, but these PHP Forums are very intricate - there are many style sheets built into the system in many directories, I just wondered how you found the relevant one so easily.

[Dutch Eagle Fan]

Thanks DEF, I know about styles too, but these PHP Forums are very intricate - there are many style sheets built into the system in many directories, I just wondered how you found the relevant one so easily.

Sheer luck       

[Laurad]

Meanie   

[Doralyn]

The aforegoing discussion about font size reminded me of how difficult it is to read the right-hand column of Last Posts in the index.  The biggest problem is that the repetition of the name of the thread is distracting and unnecessary and is in the same tiny, light blue print on a non-contrasting smokey background as the poster's name which makes the person's name hard to see.

I like the format we used to have:
The day, the date, the time
Poster's name

EXAMPLE:

Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:25 am
Judy

I think that Will had difficulty yesterday because of this.  It's too small and too much to grasp for the information you are seeking: When and Who, not the name of the thread that you already know or you wouldn't be seeking this information.  

The addition of Today before the date is fine and useful, but the date should be there too.

EXAMPLE:

Today, Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:25 am
Judy

Of course, the old forum had the words "Last Post" at the top of the column.  So, if you can't label the top of the column, how about using an unobtrusive small font label like this?

EXAMPLE:

Last post:
Today, Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:25 am
Judy

[Laurad]

Doralyn, I appreciate the suggestions. These kind of modifications take a lot of investigations and then some programming of the PHP files, if indeed they are changeable. I just don't have enough time at the moment to try and find those kind of solutions, I'm sorry. Maybe in the future when I have some spare time. I'm sorry I can't be more helpful, there are other tweaks that I have been doing and have a list of about 8 others I intend to get around to. Each one can take hours of work.

Strangely I don't find the right column in the index particularly small, maybe my own browser window font size is larger than yours. This is an option each person can set on their own computers for the time being.

[Laurad]

Could some of you please take a look at a page when you're looking at a topic or thread and see if there is a "notify" button top and bottom right of the window. It might say

Reply   Notify   Mark unread  etc.

The "notify" button should be there, but doesn't seem to be visible for a few people, maybe everyone?

ETA: I "think" I've solved it - two options in the Control Panel:

Notifications   
  Request notification on replies 
  Request notification on new topics

I've checked the both, so hopefully this will solve this particular problem 

[Doralyn]

Could some of you please take a look at a page when you're looking at a topic or thread and see if there is a "notify" button top and bottom right of the window. It might say

Reply   Notify   Mark unread  etc.

The "notify" button should be there, but doesn't seem to be visible for a few people, maybe everyone?

Mine has:
Reply  Mark unread   Send this Topic   Print

OH, Notify just appeared in the second position

On the top is the same 5 things

[Laurad]

See my post above Doralyn, thanks so much for being my tester - it obviously did the trick! Are both top and bottom the same buttons?

[CLC]

Now could you put this link string at the bottom like the old forum.. . Window on Wildlife > Welcome! > Forum Guidelines and Information & Tech Help > Forum Technical Help or...
just a go to the top button ... if not no big deal it's  8)

[Laurad]

Yes, I miss the "go top" button. I'm still learning, CLC and all these modifications take time to find out how to do them, where to do them, then to do them then to test.. etc. I have a small list of things now to tackle, but I'm really exhausted at the moment and am running behind with my own work, which is not good.  I don't mind people putting requests in though, there's nearly always a solution or option. Thanks for everyone's input.

[JudyB]

Ooh - ooh - pick me!!  (she says, frantically waving her hand to the teacher)  I think I found where to add a "go to top" button earlier today!  

Off to see if it works....  (if I can find it again)  

Added:  Well, it didn't work quite as I expected - but there is now a "go up" link next to the page numbers on the lower left, and a "go down" link next tot he page numbers on the upper left.  Hopefully that's a net gain.