New Site Look?

Are you talking about here and now? I made sure that thelaw.com had fixed widths to deal with the variable width problem. Any move to using the vbportal3 package will be highly customized here and will almost definitely continue to used fixed widths. If you are saying that the fixed widths here are too wide then your monitor resolution is using 640 x 480 resolution or you are not using Opera full screen at 800x600 resolution. Using IE or Netscape with 800x600, which should cover 99% of users, it should appear fine. Let me know if it doesn't. Thanks samtha,

Michael aka Slinky the coder

 

That's really weird. On a 15" monitor at 800x600 with the window maximized the entire border is just barely wider than the monitor and the entire board shows. So you are saying that the border in the middle is exploding outwards?

You are running Opera? I'll check this out and see what the problem is.

BTW, my vb3 version should be out some time tomorrow night or Sunday. Should be pretty cool.

 

I just downloaded opera and see what you mean. It's not only the front page but alignment is also a bit screwy in opera in many of the general pages generated by vBulletin scripts. The redirect messages appear to the left. I'd love to make everything Opera compliant but unless it's major I probably won't change things. The front page to the forums will change significantly. Thanks and regards, M

 

The version 3 look will be pretty wild... very different than what you see here with much improved navigation. We are also working on creating several different themes which will work similar to Nuke.

I will not be using fixed widths in the next release although you will be able to resize the window to work perfectly in 800x600. My guess is that VBP may be released some time next week although you will be seeing something here by next Monday, August 12 and probably well before. I'll send you a preview link in e-mail.

 

Which pages and what do you mean? I didn't make any major changes to the pages themselves except for non-structural such as colors.

 

ROFL.. I just resized my monitor to 800x600 and the pages fit in just perfectly, slightly under the full size of the screen. I'm still cleaning up the templates here and pages but for this size design they should work pretty well. I'm hoping to cut down page size which is still far too large on the main forum page (almost 90k).

 

Thanks and good suggestion about the dark blue. It may be your monitor which makes it appear darker than it really is. We'll probably lighten it every so slightly so that all eyes will adapt well. However, can't make everyone happy!!!