Also, isn't text sprawled along thousands of pixels is harder to read?
Yes, there are a ton of studies on optimum reading width / charcters per line, and the smaller the width the better. That's why newspapers have columns, and why Wordpress blogs have fixed widths.
Forum is irritatingly small for me too. Hopefully Dave doesn't let these god-awful web "designers" he found come play in the forum as well as wrecking his front page...
That's a tad rude. You have not seen the new website. Also, they are doing it for free because they are fans, cut them some slack.
Show us your website.
Have a look at their portfolio, seems they know what they are doing to me.
http://www.inerds.com.au/portfolio/
Forum is irritatingly small for me too. Hopefully Dave doesn't let these god-awful web "designers" he found come play in the forum as well as wrecking his front page...
That's a tad rude. You have not seen the new website. Also, they are doing it for free because they are fans, cut them some slack.
Show us your website.
What? The person posting in the very forum affected by the change has not seen "the new website" affected by the change?
Is this for real? And you talk about rude?
The "designers" may be fans of this forum. But what they have done to the layout is just shit.
Greetings,
Chris
What? The person posting in the very forum affected by the change has not seen "the new website" affected by the change?
Is this for real? And you talk about rude?
And it just happens, I had to read a bunch of white papers (2 column layout) over the weekend. What a pain it is on a monitor. I have no doubt it works better on paper, but who reads on paper anymore? And on the monitor I had to constantly scroll back and forth the same page, loosing my place all the time.
What? The person posting in the very forum affected by the change has not seen "the new website" affected by the change?
Is this for real? And you talk about rude?
Yes it's for real because the website has not been released yet. The website and the forum are entirely different things.
Forum is irritatingly small for me too.
Show us your website.
And it just happens, I had to read a bunch of white papers (2 column layout) over the weekend. What a pain it is on a monitor. I have no doubt it works better on paper, but who reads on paper anymore? And on the monitor I had to constantly scroll back and forth the same page, loosing my place all the time.Oh my god no-one is proposing a two-column layout here. What an idiotic strawman argument.
Dave - never announce you're going to update the site, just do it.
You get far too many contradictory bits of advice otherwise.
Just my advice...
To be very clear - I don't like the new fixed width forum format and have asked them to change it back!
To be very clear - I don't like the new fixed width forum format and have asked them to change it back!So when will the miracle happen? I'd say they've had enough time to change it back by now?
/* This division wraps the entire forum when a forum width is set. */
div#wrapper
{
margin: 0 auto;
/* min-width: 1045px; */
/* max-width: 1045px; */
}
Is anybody else now having difficulty viewing the forum on a smart TV
Works fine on my Sony Bravia, exactly the same look as my 1920x1080 desktop monitor.
I have changed it back manually in the CSS file, but it looks the same to me on all browser, still fixed width.
Perhaps some cache thing somewhere?
For all of you who likes the old width better, use this greasemonkey script
Thank you !!! It works, using Waterfox aka Firefox x64.
Installed the greasemonkey for the 1st time, just to make the forum's width max out as my screen resolutions as I move around using different pcs, laptop.
The website update is happening RIGHT NOW!
9am Thursday 20th Sydney time.
Will take a few hours, so things could get weird. Should not affect the forum, it's just a Wordpress thing.