New style home page

[Hamish Gill]

i Have adjusted the layout of the home page so any new articles and additions to the directory will appear there in chronological order with a relevant picture... what do we think... starting to look like a real site now i reckon

 

[David Crosbie]

i like it.. good work

 

[Hamish Gill]

do you think it gets across the community feel that i am trying to promote?

 

[David Crosbie]

not so sure about that. Might be worth having something like a summary of users posts, or some examples of members work on the home page. Lets people know that the members are involved here and are part of what makes it tick.

 

[Hamish Gill]

im trying to get a latest gallery images widget to work right now

 

[Vic Shaw]

I like it, looks good almost professionally done

 

[Hamish Gill]

gallery now included...

almost professionally done

almost... almost... it should look professionally done ya cheeky bugger


what does everyone think of it now?

 

[Vic Shaw]

looking good, not sure about the Mexican Midget Porn adverts though, but I guess it brings in revenue for the site

 

[Hamish Gill]

.... after a day tinkering with this getting it to look right... that had better be a joke...

 

[Vic Shaw]

Me? joke, as if I would

 

[Mark Grant]

I like it, looks much better

One suggestion would be to have a 'todays posts' in the forum as well as 'new posts'.
Just so that is easy to see all the new posts for the day.
Sometimes when I visit I will see '58' new posts at the top right and after reading a couple of threads it goes to zero so is then not easy to see todays posts. if that makes any sense.

Mark.

 

[Hamish Gill]

If you could find a way to do that you would make a lot of vb4 users happy mark

 

[Tim Pindar]

One suggestion would be to have a 'todays posts' in the forum as well as 'new posts'.
Just so that is easy to see all the new posts for the day.
Sometimes when I visit I will see '58' new posts at the top right and after reading a couple of threads it goes to zero so is then not easy to see todays posts. if that makes any sense.

Mark.

When there are no new posts to see, there is a message saying so and giving you a link to all posts updated in the last 24 hours. I think that's what you are looking for?

I agree it would be good to have that same link appear regardless, next to "New Posts".

Having said that, when I use the forum, I don't get the behaviour you describe. Every time I go back to the New Posts the remaining unread posts are still there.

You could try using the back button instead of hitting New Posts again?

 

[Hamish Gill]

It's because it's new posts not new threads ... It does behave oddly, but it's new softwear ... Theses bugs will go with time... We are making the best of what we have at the mo

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks Hamish. It looks good. I like the gallery additions bit as well.

Where is the Vintage Cameras section lurking though?

 

[David Crosbie]

tried adding an album of my own... this website handles its colours differently from flickr though and now all my images look washed out as hell

any idea how i'd stop that happening.. is it a matter of using a different colour space for the jpegs? (i think they are all adobe RGB rather than sRGB)

 

[Hamish Gill]

Thanks Hamish. It looks good. I like the gallery additions bit as well.

Where is the Vintage Cameras section lurking though?

Vintage cameras is a category of article, if you click the category (so far vintage cameras and tutorial) it will show you all the articles in that category

 

[Hamish Gill]

tried adding an album of my own... this website handles its colours differently from flickr though and now all my images look washed out as hell

any idea how i'd stop that happening.. is it a matter of using a different colour space for the jpegs? (i think they are all adobe RGB rather than sRGB)

I would think that all images need to be uploaded in srgb, I doubt it recognises adobe unfortunately

 

[David Crosbie]

that could be why they all look so washed out

if i can be bothered i'll try resubmitting lol, or i may just wait until i put new stuff up

 

[Pete Askew]

Vintage cameras is a category of article, if you click the category (so far vintage cameras and tutorial) it will show you all the articles in that category

Thanks Hamish, I understand now. Mistook it for a section of the forum.