Just a little test of the new polling system and a way to see how all of you are liking the new forum look?

Still fighting the email response but yes, progress is being made.  Thanks again to Collin!!

It did that when the new software was first installed but the ISTech graphic is a lot bigger now and it doesn't do that for me anymore. It would be helpful to know the following info:
 
1. What operating system?
2. What web browser?
3. What screen resolution?
4. Did you increase the font size?
 
I ask all of that because so long as the news text is less height than the ISTech graphic you should get no jumping.
 
Quote from tdlugosh on 02/20/07 at 22:19:25:

There is a way to change the color of anything. Apparently it's a bit early in the morning as I'm just a little hazy on what exactly you would like changed?

Quote from kkmfg on 02/21/07 at 04:58:51:

 
 
 
WOOHOO, I got an e-mail notification about this reply!!!!
 
Okay, on the Home Page, when a topic has a new post, the Last Post column shows a bold, Today, Yesterday, or the most recent date.  It might be a bit more "attention grabbing" if that text was in, say Red or something -- especially the Todays, or Yesterdays.
 
Also, is there a view to show just the topics that have had new posts, since the last login?  It's just a question, but there are one or two forums that I frequent that do that -- it's very affective for quick browsing of active topics.

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Well, I suppose that would be possible to do. I'm not sure whether it's going to happen right now but it's something to keep in mind.
 
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It doesn't seem like there is such a view. However, you can mark all topics viewed when you visit the forum and then when you come back later it will show you which boards have new posts and if you click on the board you'll see which topics have new posts. But no way of automatically seeing JUST the one's with new posts.

Quote from David Waldmann on 02/21/07 at 10:25:43:

 
Under the "Last Post" column, the post listed as "IN:yada yada" is a link to that post. Very nice. Much better than jumping to the thread and having to scroll to get to the post. Especially if you're like me and don't notice the multiple pages right off.

Quote from Cyndee Pappas on 02/21/07 at 10:47:42:

 
 
Yes!!! This is very nice.

Quote from kkmfg on 02/21/07 at 10:31:33:

 
Being able to collapse the categories makes a nice, compact view. I like it.

Quote from kkmfg on 02/21/07 at 11:25:05:

 
Windows 2000
IE6
800x600 (I'm over 40)
Text Size: Medium (Ditto)
 
The flashing news in the page header is alternating between 3 and 4 lines of text (in my browser) causing the screen to jump.
 
 
 

Quote from kkmfg on 02/21/07 at 04:23:20:

 
Answer to this problem is simple...widen the window.  I'm getting slow on the uptake in my old age.
 
Tom Dlugosh

Gee, I'll be 44 on Monday and my screen res is 1280x1024. It might help that it's a 19" panel.  
 
Don't lower your res, up your screen size!  

Quote from Cyndee Pappas on 02/21/07 at 10:47:42:

Not to sound unappreciative, but what I find most helpful on other forums is when you open a thread you can select "Go to First Unread" and it takes you to the first response that is new since you last visited. If there have been 10 responses since you last visited and you are taken to the very last one, it's not really any more helpful than starting at the top of the page, IMHO.

The PSQL General Issues still has problems realizing that there is nothing new there. It shows New Messages even though there aren't any. Once in a while on the old forum I could get it to clear by Marking All Posts as Read.
 
Now I can get the Main Screen to show that there are no new posts by Marking All Read, but if you go to the PSQL page it still shows a whole bunch of individuals as New.
 
Not a big deal, just letting you know.

While we're on the topic of things that would be nice:
 
I've been on other forums where the notification emails have a snippet of what was said. In the case of fairly short replies the notification email contains the whole reply. This is kind of nice because it allows you to figure out whether you really want to go to the forum and respond and/or read more or whether you can just leave it alone.
 
But, while I agree with the two issues brought up, I'm afraid I'm no PERL programmer and so it's unlikely that I'm going to be implementing such changes. However, I can bring up the issues on the YaBB forum to see if the developers of the forum software will think about adding such things.

Quote from David Waldmann on 02/22/07 at 05:39:06:

 
I wish I was your age(s), I'll be 61 in a little over a month.
 
My screen resolution is set at 1024x768 and when the ie window is about 3/4 the width of the screen the text jumps up and down (still) with the change in the number of info lines in the upper right corner.  It's no big deal, I just widen the window to eliminate the jump, it just took me awhile to figure it out.
 
You guys technical skills with this stuff is way beyond me.  My level never progressed much beyond the early '60's when we used to program the hard drive of the F-106 with switches when our perforated tape reader was down.  By the way, that removable hard drive was about 12"x12"x16" and held about 64K of data.  I never dreamed where computers would be today.
 
Tom Dlugosh

Could you reduce the width of the first <td> that contains the logo from 500 to, say 400 or does that make the forum too hard to keep updated?  (The ISTECH logo is only about 380 wide)
 
Maybe that would reduce the 'Jumping' on narrower windows.