Forum Update Tuesday Dec 8

[Janet H]

Originally Posted by MountainBikeRoamer

Janet H (and SMB Forum members --- !)

Here, for your consideration:

I took the time to do a quick "fine tuning" of the appearance of the webpage, with some of what I was envisioning to make the page "easier at a glance" to navigate and "easier on the eyes" to view.

Thanks for taking the time to make these suggestions, I've passed them along.

Originally Posted by chrisbaffico

Hi Janet,

My photos are no longer showing up in this thread:

http://www.sportsmobileforum.com/for...ad.php?t=16300

I would re-add them manually but I cannot find an edit option. Can you please advise.

Thank you,

-Chris

Looking at this - I think we can restore these.

[mikracer]

Not sure if this applies to everyone, but I used to get emails when I got a private message. I logged in this morning to see I had a PM but I didn't get an email. If you're used to getting an email, you have to turn that option on by going into "User CP" ---> "Edit Options" ----> check the box to "Receive email notification of private message".

Just thought I would throw it out there.

[vwteleman]

Originally Posted by Janet H

Looking at this - I think we can restore these.

I've seen quite a few of these botched links. Examples:
http://www.sportsmobileforum.com/for...t=12220&page=5
http://www.sportsmobileforum.com/for...ad.php?t=16157
http://www.sportsmobileforum.com/for...ad.php?t=16295

Cheers,
Brent

[YetiTom]

Great job on the new layout!

[Viva]

Originally Posted by SilverForkPhil

- I've not yet seen a "see unread posts since last visit" link. Is this gone?

Up above this box is a dark (black?) thin bar with words going across. "User CP," etc. The fifth one over is "New Posts." It's not as clear a description as the old one (see unread posts since last visit), but I think it does the same thing.

MountainBikeRoamer:

I like your suggested look! The colors plus the reduction of ALL CAPS. Right now it feels a bit like work to read the forum, but perhaps some tweaks will help.

[Janet H]

The CAPS have been changed on the forum headings

[SilverForkPhil]

Good eye, Viva! Thanks!
Phil

[rallypanam]

All my old messages showed as new, so I marked them all as read in the PM screen. But they still show up as new in the User Control Panel, and the only way (it seems) to mark them as read is to open them.. Which would take longer than I care to spend. Any way to mark all old messages as already read so they don't show as new?

[MountainBikeRoamer]

Originally Posted by Janet H

Thanks for taking the time to make these suggestions, I've passed them along.

The CAPS have been changed on the forum headings

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Thanks Janet!!!
The switch away from all-CAPS has already made things easier to view.

Hope you guys also give a good consider to also doing something along the lines of the additional color tweak (moving away from nearly-white surround for everything, to a medium tan of some sort for the bordered areas around the section boxes.) (I just now re-uploaded the "suggested appearance tweak" image again here, in higher resolution than last time.)

Clickable Thumbnail:

Suggested SMB Forum Appearance (contrasting tan surround)

Very cool.....
thanks again Janet for the great dialogue with everyone (and your much-appreciated presumed amounts of hard work!!!!)

[rallypanam]

One other question on the galleries.. It seems (best guess) that all my pictures came through, but not the names.. Any way to track those down, as they were descriptive of date and location on most of mine, and now all I have is "e07d196bad19e2236dda2b8e7ec59347" as a name.