Before when you used to click on a link in a thread, it opened a new tab/window but now it doesn't.

I can right click and select open new tab. Or am I just being lazy?

admin, why does my avatar stick out? it's kinda annoying.

I see that you have fixed the link issue, that was quick.

Thanks!

admin, you need a link that takes you back to the main page, home or something at the top, next to them headings.

You can click the logo.

Or is that not obvious enough?

oh. no it's not obvious.

Admin why can't I always edit my previous posts?

I can sometimes, but other times there is no 'edit' option.

In those times are you logged in?

yep.

I might look kinda funny but I ain't no fool.

Will take a little getting used to......... but all good.

I second that. Presently it shows I can edit my last comment on this thread but not the one before that. So I thought maybe I can only edit the last comment on a given thread. But that didn't seem familiar - sometimes I've observed I can't edit a post I just made. So I ran through the whole thread, and a few pages it shows I can edit every other comment. But that's not it either. After the first few pages there's no consistency to it. No obvious pattern to it on other threads either.

I think there is a logic to it.

while I cannot see the lack of edit buttons (because I can edit everything...) I think I know which posts do not have them.

Simply put, these forums have threading capabilities - when you reply to a post, that creates its own thread. Now, if someone replies to YOUR post, yours is no longer the last post in that thread. You are no longer allowed to edit it. On the other hand if someone replies to you by clicking reply on a different post, yours remain last in that thread and you an still edit it.

However since everything on here is shown as flat comments with no threading, it looks a little loony.

Computers eh?

admin why can u see topics from the sisters section? sort it out please!

Admin, each new comment is slightly to the right of the previous one.

This means that the bottom comment is only about 3 cm wide!

NOT cool.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

OK, I'll let you off just this once.

From another topic:

Imaani wrote:

Admin wrote:

I love how the bigger pictures DON'T break the forums anymore...

But they still kinda do don't they... the top of this page is blank, you have to scroll down to see the actual thread... Soz, I know I'm really picky.

I have just made some changes. Things will still break with large images on Internet Explorer, but now it will break differently. Not sure if it is better or worse.

I made some big changes, which may bork other things too. If you do see some breakage, press ctrl+f5. If the borkage still lingers, let me know.

(I have also made changes to comments - uyou can now give them a subject which will show on the front page in the new comments instead of the first few words of that comment.)

ok, there have been more changes. Added a background colour to the content, changes the grey to a warmer colour (not sure if it is a brown, orange, cram or something else :s)

Added the famous tag cloud. Now, I can have it have more colours, but I kind of like having just the orange.

Does the title colour also need to change? It has the cream/brown/orangish background, so it may clash with the current blue.

Opinions?

You wrote:

ok, there have been more changes. Added a background colour to the content, changes the grey to a warmer colour (not sure if it is a brown, orange, cram or something else :s)

Added the famous tag cloud. Now, I can have it have more colours, but I kind of like having just the orange.

Does the title colour also need to change? It has the cream/brown/orangish background, so it may clash with the current blue.

Opinions?

Take the word 'fun' out of the tag-cloud thingy.

This is NOT because Islam is incompatible with fun, but because the way the order of the words are rondomly generated, so far its said 'fun relationships' and 'terrorism fun'. Both of which are DODGY and surely haram in some way.

Ya'qub wrote:

Take the word 'fun' out of the tag-cloud thingy.

Dynamically generated cloud = cannot take the word fun out unless we untag all the content that is tagged "fun", or change that tag to another word.

You know on the magazine page, you need to make it clearer to people that they can browse the articles online.

[b]My suggestion:[/b]

At the top of the magazine page, write 'Read all the magazine articles online' (very subtle, I know). Then, next to the most recent issue (Malcolm X in this case) list the articles from that magazine (basically meaning the person doesn't need to click on the magazine front-cover to get to the list of articles).

Underneath all this, write 'Browse previous issues' (what startling wit) and then have teh front covers of issues 1-9 like they are (i.e. click on them to bring up the article list).

Boo-ya!

Good ideas but they will need to wait a while (tech issues are holding both back - the first is a "figuring it out" thing, the other a time thing.).

I am just glad to be at the stage where I can go back into the technical issues instead of putting up old issues or procrastinating over putting them up.

Just wondering if having the tag cloud at the top is a good use of space?

It looks good, but it pushes the forum topics and blogs section down a little too much. Maybe have it below this? but that may reduce the "wow factor" of the top.

The votes seem to have been reset to zero, but it still offers me a chance to cancel my vote (registering it as -1). Also, when replying I can no longer see the votes cast for this topic although that might not be necessary.

I think the site is looking good, but you could use input from someone who hasn't seen it before, and who isn't hypercritical. Hypercritical feedback is probably as useless as none at all - you either want someone to give you very vague comment about what doesn't work, or a few specific suggestions like you're already getting from us lot.

yeah there is somethign odd going on with the votes... I can see thaqt they are all registered, but they are not showing. Not too bothered as polls are not worth too much anyway.

[url=http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html]For you[/url] Admin.

Already read it (I can tell without even clicking on the link! just clicked the link now and it was what I expected. The guy has quite a few good tech writings.)

I come from the other side - I am very willing to remove ugly hacks as soon as browsers catch up.

Actually, I am doing the opposite of that article - versioned hacks.

The Main CSS of this site works in modern browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox) and IE7 too. There is a second css file which adds hacks for IE6.

This image is a little old, but it gets the point across (and is unnervingly accurate):

[img]http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/9792/breakdowngz3.png[/img]

(to update it to 2008, massively reduce the css bit, add it to the IE bit(s).)