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uli · 2011-11-28 14:07:33

philwareham wrote:

Re: buttons […] So I don’t think you need worry about trying to match any existing site stuff to it.

textpattern.com also has that yellow button, and it’s cool and nice. My CSS still lacks the yellow. Sadly, it needed somebody’s intervention. After several attempts and researches I gave up on yellow forum buttons. Still need my hair.

wet · 2011-12-02 10:14:10

philwareham wrote:

Just a few amends to the stylesheet …would probably make the forum fluid.

Done, with a bit of max-width added for the sake of my poor neck spine.

Destry · 2011-12-02 10:55:55

Nice. If the font-sizes were bumped up just a bit, I’d say we have a winner for a while.

And I’m glad for the classic look. Thanks!

uli · 2011-12-02 12:58:39

Another winner: Results after last days changes :) I can’t remember when I last saw more than 10 logged-in users! Probably years back.
Topics with new postings: from around 12 up to 22. Phew!

Thanks to all involved, with ideas or coding!

Also nice to have a figurehead of a forum theme by a pretty well known man. We could mention David DeSandro as the creator in the footer, btw.

One small kink that’s easily ironed out: overlapping links in the footer of index.php.

redbot · 2011-12-02 13:09:15

uli wrote:

… We could mention David DeSandro as the creator in the footer, btw.

+1

…One small kink that’s easily ironed out: overlapping links in the footer of index.php.

+1

philwareham · 2011-12-04 14:46:18

wet wrote:

Done, with a bit of max-width added for the sake of my poor neck spine.

Hi Robert,

Can you tweak the forum min-width rule just little a bit? Maybe to 580px.

Bloke · 2011-12-04 22:02:38

I had a chance to try out the forum on an iPod over the weekend using Tabula. It’s bloody titchy! I mean, it’s tiny enough to read on a 24” monitor but it’s microscopic on a portrait handheld device.

I had to constantly do the two-fingered-zoom thing after every page request to have a hope of reading the content. And the space between Show new posts since last visit and Mark all topics as read was less then 1mm resulting in me — as the token FHT — hitting the ‘mark all’ button when I meant to tap the other one.

Perhaps I just don’t know how to use the device properly to optimize my experience (using Safari, btw on iOS 4.2.1), but with the zoomed-in version I had to do lots of sideways scrolling too which became tiresome. Landscape mode was better, but still a bit fiddly to use.

Is this a common thing on mobile devices that I should just get used to, or does the stylesheet predate mobile design techniques and could thus be improved to aid those of us without 20/20 vision? Could 16 pixels or else work here?

philwareham · 2011-12-04 22:46:09

To create a perfectly mobile friendly site (especially something as complex structurally as a forum) is an extremely difficult task – may not even be possible here – depends mostly on how the HTML is laid out to start with. CSS alone won’t cut it.

You also need to consider navigation methods – most desktop methods of navigation, such as a horizontal bar, or drop down menus, just won’t be suitable.

That being said, there are probably a few techniques that could improve this forum if someone’s willing to invest the time. The CSS behind it is pretty tidy from what I’ve seen, which is much better than most forum software I’ve used n the past (be glad it’s not vBulletin, that’s horrific to style).

lazlo · 2011-12-05 21:43:59

uli wrote:

Can someone name any reasons for this – as a whole – illogical development trend or one of their symptoms? Are discussions nowadays going on behind login walls in the Facebook group that I don’t perceive (still no FB member, and probably won’t be). Why else avoid so many users logging in? How comes that constant, periodical users don’t post any more? Have we covered every possible question already, is our documentation that perfect, now? Are there any insights based on long-term statistics or download rates? Are there others worried about this development?

I am not taking credit for anything but I pushed out a list of November’s LSYT onto linkedin, and have been pushing LSYT consistently since I came aboard as a “community manager”. I have been active in chatting up anyone who mentions Textpattern on twitter to give a sense of life. The more technical questions still get fielded by the pros (Robert, Steph et al). Ego stroking does bring views but not logins so that may explain it.

philwareham · 2011-12-05 22:03:28

I don’t know what LSYT means, can you enlighten me?

uli · 2011-12-05 22:29:46

lazlo wrote:

I am not taking credit for anything but I pushed out a list of November’s LSYT onto linkedin, and have been pushing LSYT consistently

Ah!
Thanks for naming one more reason.

philwareham wrote:

I don’t know what LSYT means, can you enlighten me?

We had the dificulty the other day in another thread: Les means the “Let’s see yours then” forum.

redbot · 2011-12-05 22:31:30

philwareham wrote:

I don’t know what LSYT means, can you enlighten me?

Let’s See Yours Then

edit: Oops! too late

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lazlo · 2011-12-05 22:53:02

In addition the results Water and Stone Survey came out, and the forum was twitterfied on Thursday the 1st, I think all these have drawn traffic.

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