I have an idea.

What I'd like to see on this forum is a larger Next and Previous page icon for long posts. It's pretty hard for me to hit that little > or < .

Just a thought.

Noted. We are looking into doing a site re-theming and will look into making this change then.

Tom

What kind of re-theming are we looking at? Are we talking just an overall change from "this" to "that", or are we looking at a multiple skins setup, or...?

JasonG wrote:What kind of re-theming are we looking at? Are we talking just an overall change from "this" to "that", or are we looking at a multiple skins setup, or...?

At a minimum we will be fixing some long standing UI issues that have really bugged me. But I'd like to get a whole new look and feel. I'm working with our User Interaction department for that look & feel.

What are everyone's thoughts?

Tom

I think it would be nice to have a couple of skins to choose from. Other than that I haven't found anything that really bugs me.

The skins would be for just how you like to view the site. But it would be cool to have a holiday theme that changes from a normal view to the holiday view on the specific holidays.

bhofmann wrote:Other than that I haven't found anything that really bugs me.

The only thing I can think of is how links in messages are almost invisible.

If you look close fonts and sizes change from the tech CMS side and the tech FORUM site. Also, content has to be tweaked quite a bit to make it work with our layout. I work hard to make it invisible but non-the-less it bugs me which is why we are looking at a revamp.

Tom

My thoughts:

• I'm not an expert on vBulletin so these may be UserCP settings.
• One thing that would be nice is to have the default text size large on text input areas. It appears to be a size 1 when you start, for me a 3 is easier to read without a magnifying glass. Maybe a per person setting somewhere I missed?
• The fonts on the page (except the very top menu under LDSTECH) aren't scalable. If I want to change font sizes, I'm pretty well stuck for what the body of the forum has now.
• Better contrast on some sections. It's hard to see bold gold on light yellow for me. Links seem to be the problem with this. Perhaps different theme choices could take care of this?
• Make the directional (next/previous) arrows/links bigger and easier to target with a mouse. Right now it's like trying to swat gnats for me.

That's about all I can think of for right now. Hope that made sense to someone besides me.

avskip wrote:My thoughts:

• I'm not an expert on vBulletin so these may be UserCP settings.
• One thing that would be nice is to have the default text size large on text input areas. It appears to be a size 1 when you start, for me a 3 is easier to read without a magnifying glass. Maybe a per person setting somewhere I missed?
• The fonts on the page (except the very top menu under LDSTECH) aren't scalable. If I want to change font sizes, I'm pretty well stuck for what the body of the forum has now.
• Better contrast on some sections. It's hard to see bold gold on light yellow for me. Links seem to be the problem with this. Perhaps different theme choices could take care of this?
• Make the directional (next/previous) arrows/links bigger and easier to target with a mouse. Right now it's like trying to swat gnats for me.

That's about all I can think of for right now. Hope that made sense to someone besides me.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Tom

I second the ability to change the font size on the forums (BTW the default is a 2 in Verdana for me) just to keep everything standard. avskip likes it at a 3 while I personally like the 2 and seeing a large font after small font posts makes a visual discontinuity.

As a temporary solution, you can use the "Text Size->Increase/Decrease" feature of your browser. On Firefox, it is "Ctrl++" (control key and the plus key) to increase and the "Ctrl+-" to decrease the font size.

Tom

tomw wrote:As a temporary solution, you can use the "Text Size->Increase/Decrease" feature of your browser. On Firefox, it is "Ctrl++" (control key and the plus key) to increase and the "Ctrl+-" to decrease the font size.

Tom

In IE, hold down the Ctrl key while using your mouse's scroll wheel

If you do the same key combination Tom described in IE, it's actually Zoom and not Text Size modification.

Just remember that the navigation links of lds tech (not the forums: work purpose people etc) will be misplaced so mouseover happens farther to the right then what it should be.

Also if you have the MS Wireless Laser Keyboard the Zoom button is on the lower left corner of the keyboard, up zooms in and down zooms out.

thedqs wrote:Just remember that the navigation links of lds tech (not the forums: work purpose people etc) will be misplaced so mouseover happens farther to the right then what it should be.

Yes, this is why we are re-working the theme. These kinds of bugs bug me.

Tom

tomw wrote:These kinds of bugs bug me.

Oh, bugger...

tomw wrote:Yes, this is why we are re-working the theme. These kinds of bugs bug me.

Tom

Which theme? The forums work great when zoomed but the LDS Tech site itself has the problem. Or do you mean a general layout so both forums and site?

One request I have is to have the naviation tree also at the bottom of the messages so I don't have the scroll back to the top. The navigation tool I'm taking about is the one:

LDS Technology Forums > Projects > Church Web Sites > Technology Web Site > I have an idea.

thedqs wrote:Which theme? The forums work great when zoomed but the LDS Tech site itself has the problem. Or do you mean a general layout so both forums and site?

General layout for both forums and site. Currently they are not as well connected as I would like them to be so using the newer "forum" theme, for example, you can see differences at times in font sizes, styles, etc.

Tom