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Posted: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 - 06:14 AM UTC
Andy,
I made some minor changes on the default theme homepage. Did that help??

Jim
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Posted: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 - 08:54 AM UTC
Andy and Gunnie,
Ok...I think that should fix it. Let me know if that cleans up the homepage on the default view.

Thanks,
Jim
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Posted: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 - 09:51 AM UTC
Nice job!
Looks great!!!! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
It works perfectly in IE 5.1.4 now.

Netscape is still no go for some reason (system 9 piece o' junk! ;-) )

I take it Gunnie has similar problems?

Cheers
Andy
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Posted: Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 12:23 AM UTC
Hi,

Did you see the new 'Latest posts' page ?

Just fabulous

Jim, you spoil us with all those goodies.
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Posted: Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 12:32 AM UTC

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Andy and Gunnie,
Ok...I think that should fix it. Let me know if that cleans up the homepage on the default view.

Thanks,
Jim


Worked for me too Jim!

Gunnie
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Posted: Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 12:36 AM UTC
A+ job on the "New Impruved" Site.

Matt
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Posted: Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 12:49 AM UTC

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The five latest posts are listed next to where it says latest posts under "Forum Discussions"

hope this clears up that item for you. For the others...... I can't help sorry, but I imagine it's a temporary situation, Tempsit in Jackolian :-) Pig N°4


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Posted: Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 01:28 AM UTC
Really like the improved site!
Great job!

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Posted: Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 02:24 AM UTC
Aaaahhh the icons on the latest posts screen......I LOVE IT !!!
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Posted: Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 05:54 PM UTC
Jim, one comment on the legibility after a few day´s practising with the new layout.

I have this brain damage that I find it very difficult to read several lines of text aligned right, flushing left. I mean the forum topics. It´s hard to go through quickly as the starting point of each line is not the same.

I would suggest left alignment, right flush. It´s also more natural for anybody in Western culture to read as it follows the reading direction!

What mostly affects in my feeling of the new Armorama is the colour scale which gives me a kinda cold feeling. (Color psychology, here we go!)
It´s maybe the dark grey bars with bolts...Grey backgrounds in forums work well and are very legible, but I can´t shake the "standard" operating system feel because of the added greyness of the site.

Keep up the great job Jim, these comments are just IMHO!


Toni

PS. No, I really don´t have a brain damage. It was only ment to be a comic way to give some meaning to my words. My apologies.
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Posted: Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 06:50 PM UTC

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Well, my first thought was:
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Oh dude! That's cool!!! :-) :-) :-)

The design is a bit cleaner, easier to read, brighter, yet it's still ArmoramA... I love it!!!!!
It's just... cool!!! Sharp, flashy, simple. More features packed into less space.

Long live Armorama.com v.2.0!!!!

Thanks Jim!!! Great work!!!!!!!!!!! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

YodaMan - Impressed, I am


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Posted: Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 08:29 PM UTC
Jim,
As always an excellent job. At first I thought I was trippin' on caffeine again and I couldn't log off. But I slowly came around and said I was sober. Thanks again for this amazing website.

Chris Pig no.1
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Posted: Friday, August 23, 2002 - 04:11 AM UTC

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You may seem some odd behavior on your end for the next hour or less.


My wife claims that has nothing to do with the internet, but rather with this particular user #:-)
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Posted: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 10:26 AM UTC

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Hi Jim

The display problem I'm describing happens in Explorer.
I can't get it to load at all in Netscape.

Andy


Andy,
I think I fixed the Netscape 4.x problem. The site still looks ugly as heck in Netscape. Sorry for that. But when 78.72 % of our users us IE, you bet I am going to design/code towards that.

Lets hope Netscape 7.0 is a drastic improvement over 6.0.

Jim
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Posted: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 11:14 AM UTC
Armorama doesn't have any problems with the Opera browser either, Jim. Opera is my default browser since it's free (has ads though) and very fast. Netscape users might want to give Opera a try . The Chatter Boxes don't work in Opera though
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Posted: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 - 08:10 PM UTC
Darn thing logged me off today,why? And does it keep the cookie thing I don't remember seeing that. Good job Jim really nice and fresh except for the log off and no never changed the default thing still the same.
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