Topic: Forum Suggestions and Problems

[rkellerjr]

No problems here at all, everything comes up fine, wonder why you are having issues.

[Hitman]

You can always get a bigger screen.  I will check to see if I can make the ads visible or not by individual choice.

[Rick]

You can always get a bigger screen.  I will check to see if I can make the ads visible or not by individual choice.

A suggestion for an alternate consideration -- how about making the sponsor banners full-width, but putting them in between posts about every 5 posts or so.  The way it is now with them on the right, there ends up being a lot of unused (blank) space underneath the banners, and they're kind of small because they're all scrunched up.  If you make them full-width they'd be easier to read, and you wouldn't be "wasting" space in the unused area.  That would give you greater utilization of space on the page.

[hada76]

that would work also rick, currently i see about 30% blank (black) screen.

[76 Y82]

Great site Brett but one suggestion would place the adds below or above the main banner.

Derek

[hada76]

any news on the sponsor banners?

[rkellerjr]

I can't figure out why your having problems.  I can squeeze my Firefox window real small and everything still works perfectly.

[eroc022]

how about a mobile site ? such as designed for blackberrys, itouchs, smaller internet pages....

[Rick]

I can't figure out why your having problems.  I can squeeze my Firefox window real small and everything still works perfectly.

Everything works -- but there's no way to get around the loss of width on the screen.  No matter the size you still have the areas under the sponsor banners to the right showing black space.  The problem comes in when stuff doesn't "wrap" like text -- i.e., pictures just end up with the 30% cut off them.

It also affects how the subject headers wrap.  If the banners could be made full-width and then interspersed with the posts it'd be much more efficient on screen space.

[eroc022]

maybe move them to the empty spot in my picture

[Hitman]

I can't move them to an empty place on the screen.  Every place you put them it creates an empty space one way or another.  Yes, right now there are only 4 on the side going down there, but there is a list of 60+ of them that I am going after for advertising.  So pretty soon the right hand side of the screen will be filled and there will be alot of black empty space on the left once you scroll down.  Yes, once I get them all signed up, there will be ads placed here and there throughout the Forum, but right now, since there are so few, they are just stacked over there on the right.

[hada76]

but werent they across the top before? that gave them plenty of space w/o affecting the forum space...i like the idea of a random sponsor every 2-3 posts...the way it is now (as rick stated) any pics get cut almost in half.

[hada76]

hitman...i saw your reply to pat about screen resolution and it helped.  thx

[LWS78SE]

Hey Brett, I'm still having trouble getting the site to load. It takes forever. It all started when you had a glich with your server...? It was a couple of weeks ago. Ever since it takes about 2 minutes to load. Just changing topics takes about the same time. But going to your store is no problem at all. It loads instantly.  At the sametime AllGens forum started doing the samething. TAC is fine and all other sites seem ok. Did something change that I may need to change settings, security wise or etc. ?  If any computer experts could help I'd be greatful! I'm going thru forum withdraw and it sucks

[rkellerjr]

You might want to clear out your cache in your browser.