Forum Re-Design

Dan,
Good eye!!  Yes, mistakenly I had two green references: #33cc00 and #00ae00.  I did a search and replace in the style sheet for #00ae00, and adjusted all those to the lower saturation level, but a couple of #33cc00 references remained!  This was a good opportunity for me to replace all the green references in the entire forum page and assign the same HTML color code of #34ae34.

By the way, the line you refer to as "over the home toolbar" is actually referenced in the part of the code that defines the bottom of the header area!  These things can get a bit confusing.

Anyway, I believe I have now updated all the green lines to the calmer (lower saturation) tone.  But please feel free to check and report back on anything you see that is out of line (no pun intended).

Matthew
 
Daviddubya said:
Here are the images in 20X20.  Expanding small images into larger ones will result in fuzzy images.  If you want a different size, I can create it from the original photo.
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Thanks Dave!  I appreciate the contribution.  I just uploaded these new icons so everyone can take another look.  Perhaps they can go even larger?
By the way, these same icons are used in various other places in the forum, like the stats listings and the search pages.  Essentially, anywhere someone can expand or collapse a category of something.
Matthew
 
Matthew Schenker said:
Dan,
Good eye!!  Yes, mistakenly I had two green references: #33cc00 and #00ae00.  I did a search and replace in the style sheet for #00ae00, and adjusted all those to the lower saturation level, but a couple of #33cc00 references remained!  This was a good opportunity for me to replace all the green references in the entire forum page and assign the same HTML color code of #34ae34.

By the way, the line you refer to as "over the home toolbar" is actually referenced in the part of the code that defines the bottom of the header area!  These things can get a bit confusing.

Anyway, I believe I have now updated all the green lines to the calmer (lower saturation) tone.  But please feel free to check and report back on anything you see that is out of line (no pun intended).

Matthew
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Matthew,

I took a quick peek.  It looks like you have everything lined up!  (Oooh.  Ouch.  Horrible pun! ;D )

Dan.
 
Matthew Schenker said:
Daviddubya said:
Here are the images in 20X20.  Expanding small images into larger ones will result in fuzzy images.  If you want a different size, I can create it from the original photo.
Click to expand...

Thanks Dave!  I appreciate the contribution.  I just uploaded these new icons so everyone can take another look.  Perhaps they can go even larger?
By the way, these same icons are used in various other places in the forum, like the stats listings and the search pages.  Essentially, anywhere someone can expand or collapse a category of something.
Matthew
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I look a quick peek at the new icons.  They look good.  Very nice work, Dave!

Dan.
 
Hi,

  The thin green lines still look good to me  after the coloring changes. 
 
    The Systainer collapsing is cool.

Seth
 
Matthew Schenker said:
Daviddubya said:
How about 25X25?  If you want another size, please holler.
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Thanks again David.  I put up the 25x25 version in the test forum.
Matthew
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That looks better.  You can clearly see what it is now.  And the image is crisp.  Want any other size???
 
Everyone,
All right, it seems everything is ready...the structure of the new design is in place, and everyone has had ample opportunity to comment.  Now it's time to launch it!
So, I'm going to get the new design up and running and do some other needed maintenance on the forum.

The forum upgrade and maintenance will begin Friday morning at 4:00 AM.  The forum will be shut down from 4:00 AM to about 4:30 AM while I do the maintenance.

I'll post a note to the whole community about this momentarily.

Thanks everyone for your terrific help in this effort.  I'm looking forward to the new design.

Matthew
 
One more note:
For those of you who want to switch to the new theme right now, before it becomes official for the entire forum, follow these steps:
1. Click on "My Profile" from the main menu.
2. Click on "Look and Layout Preferences" in the profile screen.
3. Click "change" where you see, "Current Theme: Default (change)."
4. In the theme selection page, find "SilentWave," then click on "use this theme."

Matthew
 
Matthew, as always you have outdone yourself. The amount of work that has gone into this is staggering and I just want to thank you in particular as well as all the others that contributed. Fred
 
Matthew, I changed over to the new format about noon yesterday and relly like it. Thank you again. Fred
 
  Matthew, links on the new site seem to be the same color as the regular text, at first glance you don't know they are links. I preferred the different colored link text, is it possible to do this? And I know you were working on having a Festool region show up for each member location, will we see that in the future? 

BTW, great work!
 
Matthew

Thank you very much for all the effort you have put into the re-design. I find it nice and clear, and the logo looks very professional.

Brice Burrell said:
  Matthew, links on the new site seem to be the same color as the regular text, at first glance you don't know they are links. I preferred the different colored link text, is it possible to do this?
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I'm also with Brice on this one. Having links the same colour as normal text makes it very difficult to spot that there is a link embedded in the text. In fact, somewhere in this paragraph there is a link to a picture of the profile of the CMS side-rails which show the V-groove (referred to in another thread). Since the link is not shown in a different colour, it's difficult to find it. In fact, if I hadn't mentioned the link was there, hardly anyone would have known the link even existed.

Forrest

 
I agree about the link color.  However, remember that whatever color I specify for links shows up for all links, not just those in the message post box.  I'm going to look for ways to have the links behave differently inside the post box and get back to this later today.
Matthew
 
Everyone,
I just updated the link color to gray, with green/underlined hovers.  Just to test it, I put a link right here in the middle of a post.  On my monitor, it stands out enough without being too jarring.  Can others please report on what you're seeing?

For comparison, over in the test forum I changed the links to a subdued blue.  That way, people can jump back and forth between "test" and "production" forums to see which one works best visually.

I'm trying to find a color that makes links stand out, without making things ugly.

Matthew
 
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