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Champipple
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Initially Posted - 02/08/2006 : 21:31:40

Made some adjustments - how are things now?

D. Wolff
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Response Posted - 02/08/2006 : 22:28:57

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Duane Wolff
 Made some adjustments - how are things now?
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I still have to pull the slide bar over to see the forum messages. My resolution is set at 800x600, running IE 6.0.29 on XP.

Much speedier though, thanks for the work on our site.

George

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 02/08/2006 : 22:36:55

Give it a refresh that resolution should work fine, especially on XP

I'm running xp with 1024 c 768 without a problem. Also set your text size to medium or less

by the way, are you going to bring your boat down for Nationals, its not going to be this close for at least 4 more years...

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Response Posted - 02/09/2006 : 10:30:31

See edit to my other post. Tried the 1024 resolution and second highest text. It seems to solve the scroll problem.
But, I just noticed that the text in this reply box is tiny.
The forum speed seems slightly better on my dial-up. (DSL and cable aren't available in my neighborhood).

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Response Posted - 02/09/2006 : 11:53:07

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Duane Wolff
 Give it a refresh that resolution should work fine, especially on XP

I'm running xp with 1024 c 768 without a problem. Also set your text size to medium or less

by the way, are you going to bring your boat down for Nationals, its not going to be this close for at least 4 more years...

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It is looking good here at work running Mozilla.

I do not have a trailer so I will not be bringing my boat but I may be available for crewing.

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Response Posted - 02/10/2006 : 01:48:36

Duane, the adjustments work well on all pages except leaving some forum area issues.

I'm using XP with Mozilla at 800.

The message poster window problem is easily solved simply by ticking 640x480 for the screen size.

The remaining issue is topic length. If the Snitz software allows setting the width of the topic box and forces a longer topic name to wrap around, most slide bar issues would be solved.

Edited by - Arlyn Stewart on 02/10/2006 01:57:55

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Response Posted - 02/10/2006 : 08:09:45

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Posted - 02/10/2006 : 07:53:26
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Thanks Duane and others for all your time on this

I know almost nothing about computers and scrolling to the side is no big deal but it seems like a narrower post section will cause the posts to go down further maybe turning one page into two ? I have Windows 98SE.

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Craig and Lorri Trotter '79 C25 "Fair Lady" SK/SR on the Sacramento River,Rio Vista,CA
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Slider bar is gone on this post,still on others.Seems like we're still wasting space on the left but what do I know

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 02/10/2006 : 09:59:26

a couple of things

Big A$$ pictures will cause the slider bar to appear for everyone.
The space on the left is a tradeoff – on long posts, it really is apparent when you scroll down. On short ones it isn’t. The tradeoff comes in when you consider the programming implications – In the past, people would find the forum via google or other search engine and never know that the association even existed. I thought it was just some forum out there (albeit back in the trailer sailor days). By incorporating it into the site, we not only advertise that we exist beyond the forum, we allow people to navigate throughout our site. So since putting in the menus was a requirement, we had the option of putting them across the top, which is busy with forum menus or putting it down the side. The other option was doing both, however that becomes a maintenance issue, where multiple pages need to be maintained. Getting Staff isn’t easy, so we needed to keep is simple.
dw

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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 02/10/2006 : 12:00:53

Duane, most understand that large pics or a long link expand the normal defined width of the Snitz forum window resulting in slide bar action that becomes disconcerting to reading the text of all post in a thread where such a picture or link exist.

That is unfortunate but as you say, it's a snitz forum issue only cured by naming links and posting pics of 640 pixel width or less. My response is usually to ignore threads that demand constant movement of the slide bar back and forth to read the text.

However, with one exception, the rules we've lived by really don't change with the left hand menu as the slide bar only needs moved once to focus on the snitz forum by running the menu off to the left. That seems to me to be of little consequence for the benefits of the comprehensive menu.

Even this one exception might be easily fixed if the topic window width can be reduced slightly. Spike can answer that question or I could ask someone over on the snitz forum website.

Its not a huge issue as a one time slide bar will focus the znitz forum.

Edited by - Arlyn Stewart on 02/10/2006 12:26:52

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