Contributing Member TwinOaks Posted May 29, 2009 Contributing Member Report Posted May 29, 2009 Keep the suggestions coming! That's the way the admin team gets things better. I'll agree that it's a bit of a change, having the reading area smaller and all. However, to help with the costs of this site and hopefully ensure a very long run on the internet, it's something to which I'll gladly adapt. My suggestion along these lines is to split the ad spaces, running them along the sides as margins. It feels a little weird concentrating on the left most 7/8ths of the screen. Having the forum area centered is easier on my eyes. Plus, while smaller, you can fit more per page. Quote Mike DeLoach Esse Quam Videri (Be rather than Seem) "Don't learn the tricks of the trade.....Learn the trade." "Teach what you know......Learn what you don't." LEATHER ARTISAN'S DIGITAL GUILD on Facebook.
Moderator Johanna Posted May 29, 2009 Moderator Report Posted May 29, 2009 We're ironing out the bugs. Bear with us, please. And please tell the advertisers you saw their ad here- most of these folks have graciously allowed us to use their logos to test the ad server. If enough of you say you saw it, they might buy a spot. We'll get the spacing kinks out soon. Ad revenue means we can expand and bring more features to LW...that's a good thing. Johanna Quote You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain
electrathon Posted May 30, 2009 Report Posted May 30, 2009 Keep the suggestions coming!That's the way the admin team gets things better. I'll agree that it's a bit of a change, having the reading area smaller and all. However, to help with the costs of this site and hopefully ensure a very long run on the internet, it's something to which I'll gladly adapt. My suggestion along these lines is to split the ad spaces, running them along the sides as margins. It feels a little weird concentrating on the left most 7/8ths of the screen. Having the forum area centered is easier on my eyes. Plus, while smaller, you can fit more per page. I don't think (I may be totally wrong here) that anything is smaller, it is just all squished to the left side, which causes the line to line formating to change. As I stated I am 100% for adds, lots of them. I just think there are better solutions than to cause a format change, or to force us to scroll left to right to see the page. Situate the adds throughout the page, great! But keep for page width formating "standard". Quote
Suze Posted May 30, 2009 Report Posted May 30, 2009 could yo make the "margin ads" long and skinny and put some on both sides? (split the space in two) that would put the "reading area" back in the middle of the screen. Quote Reality is for people who lack imagination Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford
Members jbird Posted May 30, 2009 Members Report Posted May 30, 2009 Joe I am behind you 100% and Kate and the hole team Josh Quote Josh Dusty Chaps Leather & Seven O Saddle Shop 801-809-8456 Keep moving forward! On a horse. Hebrews 4:12 My link
Contributing Member TwinOaks Posted May 30, 2009 Contributing Member Report Posted May 30, 2009 Suze, that's what I was trying to say. Thanks for rephrasing for me. Sometimes, I get a little verbose. Quote Mike DeLoach Esse Quam Videri (Be rather than Seem) "Don't learn the tricks of the trade.....Learn the trade." "Teach what you know......Learn what you don't." LEATHER ARTISAN'S DIGITAL GUILD on Facebook.
Contributing Member Denise Posted May 30, 2009 Contributing Member Report Posted May 30, 2009 I have a small screen which means I have to scroll more to get to the bottom, but I don't have to move the cursor left and right to see everything - posts and ads. Do some of you have to do that as it stands now? Quote
Suze Posted May 30, 2009 Report Posted May 30, 2009 Twin Oaks do what I did and put the "page" down to about 7/8 ths of your screen size and just move The whow thing over some on the moniter. Puts it back in the middle of the screen. It is going to take some getting used to. Quote Reality is for people who lack imagination Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford
electrathon Posted May 30, 2009 Report Posted May 30, 2009 I have a small screen which means I have to scroll more to get to the bottom, but I don't have to move the cursor left and right to see everything - posts and ads. Do some of you have to do that as it stands now? Yes, on some of the screans, the "page" is wider than the screan, horibly annoying. Not on all of the pages though, not sure why it is differant from one to another. I do not mind having to scroll farther to the bottom, I do mind the width of screan format change. Quote
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