Posted on 03/20/2002 7:02:02 PM PST by NovemberCharlie
A thread to comment on the new Free Republic software, since I seem to be the first to do so.
On the page where I see this message, I do not see a link to the Topics page. It makes the message confusing.
I'm writing Special Ed documentation for users now. Someone told me it looked like Dr Seuss wrote it.,
How many of us would like to have a messy, unorganized, hard to wade through site,
such as the DU's site has?
Thanks Jim.
A preliminary inspection on my part gentlemen shows me some very nice additions in the beta. I like being able to choose my own categories in the right column.
As usual, ya'll have excelled and exceed expectations again and have vastly improved the forum again, IMO. Thank you again for an excellent website and all of the love and labor ya'll put into it.
I'm looking forward to looking at more of the new features and will do so as time permits me.
May G_d grant me the privelege of meeting you gentlemen some day, and my heartfelt thanks to you and your family.
Anyway. We couldn't find a more suitable color that did not blast our eyes. The old blue is too bright. We'll gladly review alternatives -- just save the web page as HTML and replace the "lavendar" (HTML color #777799) with something better, then mail your new page to john@robinson-defehr.com
E-mail addys are coming back, with a vengeance.
However I agree with the concerns about the "My Comments" page..........a space in between each comment would be wonderful..........it's a little hard to read...especially for those of us in the "bifocal years.":)
Anyway, hats off for the great work so far.
Other than that, its not bad.
May I suggest adding Netscape 4.7 to the "best viewed withs"?
There are some of us die-hards who refuse to use either MicroSquish's browser or AOL / Time Warner's cruddy "upgrade" of Netscape.
Not to say I am any great proponent of Microsoft bugware, but it's actually better than many of its competitors(*). But it (Windows) still sucks as a server OS, and it certainly pales in comparison to the swiss army knife that is Unix.
Opera is good, it's the only browser I ever bought. I wish more people would use it.
* It's probably only better than its competitors because Microsoft absolutely squashes with its kingly warchest anything in its way. The big bullies!
You've got two clumps of navigation points going and only the one on the upper right looks very good. I'm a fan of simple links, so more power to you for resisting some of the slow/nasty java menu solutions that can be found in lots of places these days.
The entire left hand column is a disaster and the section just above where posts are listed is a mess with the banner there shoved to the left.
The flag background image does not look very good, IMO, and the left-hand column should be lost if at all possible.
Try not to steal more than an inch or so of the top. Folks want to see, generally, more posts on their screen at one time, not less.
< / crabby>
You've put together a very fast, killer of an engine for this forum (slow forums suck!) and, despite what I just crabbed about, you're on the right track with design too.
You might want to ask a few volunteers to see if they can pull together some mockup pages in the spirit of the FreeRepublic design style, which is: lean, restrained rather than flashy, uses the whole page, keeps the number of tables and graphics low so it stays speedy, and places a very high emphasis on getting information to its users.
I strongly second this. There are times when one may want to cut and paste off the preview as well as it just adds mouse travel time...at the very least put a second OK button at the top of the preview window
Well, I have Opera 5 downloaded and on my machine.
But I gotta admit, I did that so long ago that I forgot why I didn't like it and don't use it.
Maybe I'll fire it up and see what happens.
Thanks.
But something that blasts our eyes
IS AN EYE CATCHER
;-)
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