Perhaps you could put all the navs into drop downs on the top? And they could be dynamically filled depending on your sidebar preferences and what not.
Go with it. SURELY there is a way to make a navigational sidebar that everyone can deal with. EVERY large website has this.
Look back at my Blue Border thread. People are lost without a navigation bar. Without it it still looks like a center frame page missing the menu frame.
Do you bake cookies in your ((spare time)) too?
It took a little fumblin' and a-bumblin' on my part to get used to the new format, but I'm likin' it. Thanks for all your hard work.
I'll get my CSSes back up and working for the new Beta format, everyone will be able to FReep in whatever color they like...
The fixes, are greatly appreciated ! There are still a few problems for " webbies " ... such as the top of the screen is still sliced off, and there is no way to unsubscribe to forums. H-E-L-P ; please . I, for one, was " given " a subscription to a forum, which I do NOT want. I sunscribed to a forum, which I now see I do NOT want . I am unable to get rid of either. I think that the halved top of the screen is the problem. Any suggestions ? I'm just ignoring and making lemonade out of this problem ; as are other " webbies ". Loading is still kinda slooooooooooooow, but at least the WebTV units aren't shutting off any more. : - )
Again, many thanks for the quick fixes to the most egregious problems.
Wow. Nice job. I'll keep using the beta for that reason alone.
MANAGE SUBSCRIPTIONS (Topics, your sidebar) -- order them any way you please.Kewl!You must be logged in, find the "My Subscriptions" link in your nearest Personal menu (click on your name in the upper right corner.)
Although I guess that it would be important to note that this MARVELOUS ability to permanently FIX the position of "topics" in your right-hand sidebar - so that...
Breaking News is ALWAYS at the top - Yeah!!!... only exists (for now) in the ALTERNATE universe of BETA-Free Republic, so that you have to go to:
and
the NUMBER of articles per topic can be as large as FIFTY!!!
http://beta.freerepublic.com/focus/my/subscriptions...to experience these new features in all of their glory.
And, John, the mega-REVIEW page, at:http://beta.freerepublic.com/focus/my/review...is the COOLEST feature of them all!!!!(Hard-core FReepers: You must go there. Now!)
Style sheets: woohoo! glad to have them back. Like I posted on one of those threads, you could implement quite a bit of your original beta in CSS, and allow users to change that to their preference (colors, fonts, etc.)
Sidebars: love 'em. The best change from the old style.
PHOTO ALBUM / Image Hosting: Sounds good for the hostless folks, but do you have unlimited bandwidth? or some way to throttle popular images? Anytime I hosted an image it got hundreds/thousands of hits, and really sucked down my bandwidth.
I can't seem to find the 'My Subscriptions' link to tweak the number of threads listed in each sidebar topic?
Also, do you have a list of the various CSS classes you use. A little shorthand crib-sheet would be handy when rolling our own.
Great job, I really like the layouts and colors in your original beat. I will play with this this weekend (and maybe build my new computer to play with it on).