Bob, nice fix on the blog, thank you…
Have noticed like korm, on the pictures… right side on new pictures in my topic ““Updates on Bluestone Southern” in Tracks & trestles”", seem to be cut off
You’re right, the pictures are chopped off, a bunch. Original
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/cabby/_forumfiles/NW611.JPG)
The new forum has the right side cut nearly a third. Can’t show it, because when I save the photo from the new forum, it copies as the original. In this photo, part of the pilot is cut off and you can’t see the light on the ceiling or the other locomotive at all. Ralph
I see the whole picture now anyway.
On the new site, the picture is cut off.
Ralph
Yeah, looks like 755 pixels wide is the limit… adding in the padding on the right margin and left margin and assuming that the page setting might max at 800 pixels.
Had a similar issue on my site… set picture limit to 800 wide and some pictures go outside the “frame” of the page… I set it to allow the wider picture and exceed the frame width.
Greg
Ive squashed the left-side info area (with your name, icon, etc), which brings the message area on the right to 830 pixels wide. 800-x-whatever pictures now fit without cropping.
Now on to the photobucket ‘issue’…
Photo Gallery: Next button not working.
Clarification - Photo #1, Next does nothing, Photo #2, both Prev and Next go to Photo #1, Photo #3, both Prev and Next go to Photo #1 and so on.
Working on the forum image importing issues. Have more of them working, but there are still some issues.
One, some of wikipedia’s images violate standard URL rules, so they don’t get picked up as an inline image in the import process. Then, the forum software notices that “it might be an image” and tries to display it, but fails also, so it ends up as a broken image. Puzzling that one out.
Two, some people have put tags in their posts, and that is getting things confused, too. The import process picks that up as some kind alternate url and throws up. Almost have that one figured out.
Thank Ghu for holiday weekends.
Jon Radder said:
Photo Gallery: Next button not working.Clarification - Photo #1, Next does nothing, Photo #2, both Prev and Next go to Photo #1, Photo #3, both Prev and Next go to Photo #1 and so on.
Interesting…something very odd about the pagination of the albums. Doesnt always happen, but I can get it to duplicate. Very funky.
It seems to be a “Photo 1 isnt photo 1” kind of thing. If I open someone’s gallery and start a bit down, next/prev work like they’re supposed to. Hmm…
Probable fix put in. Seems to be working now.
Avatar pics are temporarily disabled while I work through some issues.
Darker type may solve the ptoblem but with my poor eyesight the type seems to be coming in smaller so I have to go up about 6 sizes to read it.
Took a brief look. I don’t like the light text color. My old eyes really strain to see anything but black.
The new format makes the type way too small, and there’s too much waste space on the left and right side of the display. Removing them would make the center text area much larger. In the old days of HTML, setting all columns to percentage of the width would allow for different size monitors.
Don’t know how they do it these days.
I just copied the original Jupiter picture, cropped to 800 px wide and compared, looks right now…
I can see what people are talking about, the deeper yellow of the current site does indeed give more contrast… the font size looks identical.
I don’t think the post body text is lighter… I’d darken the blue on the topic headers, I like the larger size and bold…
I had a problem on my site, several people complained about it, cropping pictures, etc. Then I found many people were trying to view it on a 800 x 600 monitor!
At some point people with poor eyesight need larger monitors… but often when they get them, they don’t know the best way to “enlarge” the page… larger monitors are usually 1920 x 1080 resolution, and thus everything goes back “tiny”… I recommend FireFox and the feature to zoom text only… when I show this to people, it solved 99% of the issues. (standard zoom zooms everything which is not usually what is wanted)
Greg
Greg Elmassian said:
I just copied the original Jupiter picture, cropped to 800 px wide and compared, looks right now...I can see what people are talking about, the deeper yellow of the current site does indeed give more contrast… the font size looks identical.
I don’t think the post body text is lighter… I’d darken the blue on the topic headers, I like the larger size and bold…
I had a problem on my site, several people complained about it, cropping pictures, etc. Then I found many people were trying to view it on a 800 x 600 monitor!
At some point people with poor eyesight need larger monitors… but often when they get them, they don’t know the best way to “enlarge” the page… larger monitors are usually 1920 x 1080 resolution, and thus everything goes back “tiny”… I recommend FireFox and the feature to zoom text only… when I show this to people, it solved 99% of the issues. (standard zoom zooms everything which is not usually what is wanted)
Greg
Yea, Ill darken the yellow background of the forum, to near what it is on the current site. I already darkened the gray text, but Ill change the blue a bit, too.
Thanks for all the feedback, everybody. Getting closer!
Also you seem to have missed the (Home , Forums , Whichever links on the bottom of the pages.Between the present ‘Subscribe to this Topic’ and ‘Post Reply’
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Im putting the new site into development mode, which means it’ll be incredibly slow to run, and if you get a site error, there will be a bunch of stuff on the screen. So, I guess what Im saying, is don’t poke around on the site, since Im working on it! 
Bruce Chandler said:
In other words…(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/thejoat/_forumfiles/poke.jpg)
Exactly.
Today I’m working on the Paypal / Freight Shed signup. If any of you get an email from LSC saying something like “Your subscription has been completed” or something, it’s safe to ignore, that’s just me playing. You SHOULNT, but, well, you know.
