Things for the new forum.

[Howl]

Yep, awesome work Fred. Thank you very much

[Phid]

thanks Fred. you do great work

[Glorificus]

I like the big type in the reply box. You can always preview it. The site looks much cleaner, and I see the who's-on-line thing has returned.

Now, if we could just get the vomitting and dancing smilies...

GREAT JOB, IAGO!!!!   

[laura118b]

I like the new look on the whole, but the space for sigs at the bottom is just huge!  A lot of the posts in this thread the space taken up by the sigs is twice as big as the actual post, and at least for me I keep thinking there are two posts in the same spot when there is a quote in someone's sig.  The old forum shrunk those down to a smaller font it seemed like.

[iago]

I like the new look on the whole, but the space for sigs at the bottom is just huge!  A lot of the posts in this thread the space taken up by the sigs is twice as big as the actual post, and at least for me I keep thinking there are two posts in the same spot when there is a quote in someone's sig.  The old forum shrunk those down to a smaller font it seemed like.

Hm. The sigs look smaller on my browser, and I note when there's a lot of vertical space at the end of one it's because someone's avatar is taller than the content of their posts (see Howl's, above).

[Dina]

Awesome job, Iago. I still think the main problem with the sigs are the quotes. Look at Enj sig, in this thread. Is ginormous!

[Aakaakaak]

Awesome job, Iago. I still think the main problem with the sigs are the quotes. Look at Enj sig, in this thread. Is ginormous!

This is back in the index.css.

/* A quote, perhaps from another post. */
blockquote.bbc_standard_quote, blockquote.bbc_alternate_quote
{
   font-size: x-small;
   color: #000;
   line-height: 1.4em;
   background: url(../images/theme/quote.png) 0.1em 0.1em no-repeat;
   border-top: 2px solid #99A;
   border-bottom: 2px solid #99A;
   padding: 1.1em 1.4em;
   margin: 0.1em 0 0.3em 0;
   overflow: auto;
}

/* Alterate blockquote stylings */
blockquote.bbc_standard_quote
{
   background-color: #d7daec;
}
blockquote.bbc_alternate_quote
{
   background-color: #e7eafc;
}

Playing with    padding: 1.1em 1.4em; to maybe padding: 0.6em 0.7em; may trim the internal borders around the letters and effectively trim the fat.

If you already know how to do all this and I'm being annoying just tell me to shut up. Sometimes I overindulge in this kind of stuff and tread in people's territory. Sorry if I am.

[Amber]

Profile > Modify Profile > Look and Layout Preferences > Don't show users sig lines

[Howl]

Hm. The sigs look smaller on my browser, and I note when there's a lot of vertical space at the end of one it's because someone's avatar is taller than the content of their posts (see Howl's, above).

I could change my avatar to be shorter if it's a problem?
And I see you managed to move the search bar so it doesn't cut the avatars in half any more. Nice work

[Aakaakaak]

NPH is perfect just the way he is.

[Priscellie]

Hm. The sigs look smaller on my browser, and I note when there's a lot of vertical space at the end of one it's because someone's avatar is taller than the content of their posts (see Howl's, above).

This might be a good time to remind folks that we ask everyone to keep their avatar limited to 125x125 (with the standard 100x100 being preferred) and their sig below about 80 pixels, or 5 lines of text.

[Enjorous]

My sig is made up of two quotes at one line a piece. But with the new way that quotes work it seems quite a bit bigger. Is that something I should tone down?

[Aakaakaak]

This might be a good time to remind folks that we ask everyone to keep their avatar limited to 125x125 (with the standard 100x100 being preferred) and their sig below about 80 pixels, or 5 lines of text.

Heh, I had never paid it any attention before.
*checks*
OOPS! Fixed.

We could probably shrink it further by removing the yellow karma bar everyone has, since we're not intending to use karma.

[iago]

We could probably shrink it further by removing the yellow karma bar everyone has, since we're not intending to use karma.

The "karma bar" is what we had before, stars indicating membership level. Assuming we're talking about the same thing.

[laura118b]

Profile > Modify Profile > Look and Layout Preferences > Don't show users sig lines

  I know that, I didn't want to get rid of them they amuse me.

And the quotes are really different now, they used to shrink a bit in the sig line and now, well yes Enjorous is spot on what I'm talking about.  But it's funny, Priscellie's is still the same size as before even with the E-bay ticker.

I'm just throwing this out there in case it's a bug or something similar.  I can live with it no problem.