Site upgrade - New Features

Swamped · Post by **Swamped** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:15 pm

haha yeah...still not there. If i could upload direct tothe site id screen capture and post a pic of whats there. I give up...might try later on my widescreen and see if thats different.

ActyonMan · Post by **ActyonMan** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:35 pm

mike wrote:
ActyonMan wrote:What's happened?

It is a new look, but I've got these "boxes" on the left side of my explorer page partially obscurring the posts.

I can't easily adjust my screen resolution as I'm using a laptop that really only likes 1200*800.

How can I adjust the size of these boxes?

Thanks in advance

hold ctrl and click refresh or shift and refresh.

Thanks, ctrl-refresh fixed the LHS of the screen.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:44 pm

Gotta say, and i mean this in the nicest possible way Mike.

it's looks like poo's, my screen sometimes can only see half the topic, at other times it's ok, but generally it looks like a big brown steamer

I take it this is a work in progress still as i know you only do quality work, like on your Land Rover aye :lol:

No Sir, no ring-a-ding repairs around here :lol:

vvega · Post by **vvega** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:08 pm

funny i just went to do a search for some info and ... HEEELO no serch fucntion :d

Jafa · Post by **Jafa** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:15 pm

vvega wrote:funny i just went to do a search for some info and ... HEEELO no serch fucntion :d

Bottom left hand side of the page from within a thread

kiwipete · Post by **kiwipete** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:34 pm

Swamped wrote:haha yeah...still not there. If i could upload direct tothe site id screen capture and post a pic of whats there. I give up...might try later on my widescreen and see if thats different.

So you see nothing like this then?

curly12 · Post by **curly12** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:36 pm

kiwipete wrote:
Swamped wrote:haha yeah...still not there. If i could upload direct tothe site id screen capture and post a pic of whats there. I give up...might try later on my widescreen and see if thats different.

So you see nothing like this then?

Nope

curly12 · Post by **curly12** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:38 pm

kiwipete wrote:
Swamped wrote:haha yeah...still not there. If i could upload direct tothe site id screen capture and post a pic of whats there. I give up...might try later on my widescreen and see if thats different.

So you see nothing like this then?

Nope

But I do have the PM section on this page :lol:

kiwipete · Post by **kiwipete** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:46 pm

But I do have the PM section on this page

Well you got me there, humph!

gixxer · Post by **gixxer** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 3:22 pm

I was having problems with the new layout (not) displaying properly in firefox, after a little searching I found this general guide for fixing the appearance of sites in Firefox. Just thought others might find the info helpful too.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Websites+look+wrong

Resetting the zoom sure solved all my problems.

by the way, thanks Mike for doing such an awesome job with this site, I may not have posted much in the last few years I've been here (understatement) but can't go very long without visiting or I get withdrawal systems!.

Post by **mike** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 3:51 pm

gixxer wrote:I was having problems with the new layout (not) displaying properly in firefox, after a little searching I found this general guide for fixing the appearance of sites in Firefox. Just thought others might find the info helpful too.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Websites+look+wrong

Resetting the zoom sure solved all my problems.

by the way, thanks Mike for doing such an awesome job with this site, I may not have posted much in the last few years I've been here (understatement) but can't go very long without visiting or I get withdrawal systems!.

Thanks for posting that link. looks useful. I think bubba needs to visit that and do each one :wink:

I have added a few more menu items right next to the forums button at the top. One for view new posts, one for private messages and one for search forums. I have removed the blocks on the left side as we dont need those while the forums are open and looking at view new posts. Your not the only ones experiencing heavy load through this new setup, the poor server is struggling to keep up. Another reason i turned those blocks off is to reduce the load while in forum pages and also to increase the width to help those with tiny screens.

hopefully that will temporarily fix those image issues. I will implement some server caching of the php script so the server isnt struggling so much during peak times. This may cause some known side effects ("white screen of death and perhaps the odd error") but the server will be considerably faster.

right back to it.

mike

vvega · Post by **vvega** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 3:58 pm

thanks mike

keep up the hard work

Swamped · Post by **Swamped** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:36 pm

The forums not being cut off anymore. I didn't even have the little pm box on the sidebars. Cheers for sticking it in the top run of options. Everything seems sweet now. Are all the different font colours necessary??

Good work though.

Post by **mike** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:53 pm

Swamped wrote:The forums not being cut off anymore. I didn't even have the little pm box on the sidebars. Cheers for sticking it in the top run of options. Everything seems sweet now. Are all the different font colours necessary??

Good work though.

yeah they are a bit crazy, I will look at sorting that in the next days. got a few other more serious issues with the server and stuff to sort first. But i'll get there, if not today next week :mrgreen:

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:56 pm

mike wrote:But i'll get there, if not today next week

or maybe the week after that :mrgreen:

keep up the good work dude
so i take it the rover build is on hold for the moment :mrgreen:

kiwipete · Post by **kiwipete** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:01 pm

Are we able to update/change our sig's and other bits like MSN/Yahoo addresses yet?
I couldn't find anywhere in the "My Account" section to do this.

Post by **mike** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:07 pm

kiwipete wrote:Are we able to update/change our sig's and other bits like MSN/Yahoo addresses yet?
I couldn't find anywhere in the "My Account" section to do this.

yup click the private messages then profile :wink:

I can link them, just havnt done it yet.

Post by **SV1K** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:52 pm

AWESOME JOB MIKE!! You have been

hard to get this site updated and have done a great job!!

Are we going to get the 'one click'

on the top banner to get back to the front page back?

Just wondering that is all.. is very handy that little thing.....

The sooner you finish the site the sooner you can

kiwipete · Post by **kiwipete** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:04 pm

mike wrote:
kiwipete wrote:Are we able to update/change our sig's and other bits like MSN/Yahoo addresses yet?
I couldn't find anywhere in the "My Account" section to do this.

yup click the private messages then profile I can link them, just havnt done it yet.

Well done Mike, thanks. Now get back to work. :wink:

skid · Post by **skid** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:51 pm

2 more things

1st one is a minor, but my topic notification emails seem doubled up and the first part has a huge font, like this.......................

Hello skid, You are receiving this notification because you are watching the topic, "Site upgrade - New Features" at "Offroad-Express". This topic has received a reply since your last visit. You can use the following link to view the replies made, no more notifications will be sent until you visit the topic. If you want to view the newest post made since your last visit, click the following link: http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... 4&e=182884 If you want to view the topic, click the following link: http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... 20&t=15984 If you want to view the forum, click the following link: http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... m.php?f=20 If you no longer wish to watch this topic you can either click the "Unsubscribe topic" link found at the bottom of the topic above, or by clicking the following link: http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... atch=topic -- Thanks, The Management‏
From: mike@ore.co.nz
Sent: Tuesday, 21 April 2009 5:56:00 p.m.
To: skid (skiddynz@live.com)

Hello skid, You are receiving this notification because you are watching the topic,"Site upgrade - New Features" at "Offroad-Express". This topic has receiveda reply since your last visit. You can use the following link to view thereplies made, no more notifications will be sent until you visit the topic. If you want to view the newest post made since your last visit, click thefollowing link: http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... 4&e=182884 If you want to view the topic, click the following link:http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=15984 If you want to view the forum, click the following link:http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/viewforum.php?f=20 If you no longer wish to watch this topic you can either click the"Unsubscribe topic" link found at the bottom of the topic above, or byclicking the following link: http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... atch=topic --

wots up with that ???

the 2nd thing has happened twice now and its annoying a little bit. I will be replying to a thread and when I've finished, I always preview it so I dont make a cock of myself anymore, but as you hit the preview button a new page appears to alert you to a new PM and your post you've just typed up has dissappeared, dammit. WHY ???

williamhamilton · Post by **williamhamilton** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:30 pm

Just a quick note to say. BLOODY WELL DONE MIKE!!!

Upgrades/migrations can be such a pain in the a&& without a full test suite and group of monkeys to assits.. oh wait... lots of the monkeys have been posting on the thread already.

Everything will get sorted I am sure and look forward to doing some more "testing". Keep it up BUT make sure you get at least enough sleep AND get some time to work on yor beasty.. looking forward to bring nice cups of tea during your race.

W

Post by **mike** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:56 pm

skid wrote:2 more things

1st one is a minor, but my topic notification emails seem doubled up and the first part has a huge font, like this.......................

Hello skid, You are receiving this notification because you are watching the topic, "Site upgrade - New Features" at "Offroad-Express". This topic has received a reply since your last visit. You can use the following link to view the replies made, no more notifications will be sent until you visit the topic. If you want to view the newest post made since your last visit, click the following link: http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... 4&e=182884 If you want to view the topic, click the following link: http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... 20&t=15984 If you want to view the forum, click the following link: http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... m.php?f=20 If you no longer wish to watch this topic you can either click the "Unsubscribe topic" link found at the bottom of the topic above, or by clicking the following link: http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... atch=topic -- Thanks, The Management‏
From: mike@ore.co.nz
Sent: Tuesday, 21 April 2009 5:56:00 p.m.
To: skid (skiddynz@live.com)

Hello skid, You are receiving this notification because you are watching the topic,"Site upgrade - New Features" at "Offroad-Express". This topic has receiveda reply since your last visit. You can use the following link to view thereplies made, no more notifications will be sent until you visit the topic. If you want to view the newest post made since your last visit, click thefollowing link: http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... 4&e=182884 If you want to view the topic, click the following link:http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=15984 If you want to view the forum, click the following link:http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/viewforum.php?f=20 If you no longer wish to watch this topic you can either click the"Unsubscribe topic" link found at the bottom of the topic above, or byclicking the following link: http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... atch=topic --

wots up with that ???

the 2nd thing has happened twice now and its annoying a little bit. I will be replying to a thread and when I've finished, I always preview it so I dont make a cock of myself anymore, but as you hit the preview button a new page appears to alert you to a new PM and your post you've just typed up has dissappeared, dammit. WHY ???

click on the private messages, go into board preferences and turn off pop up alerts for pm's this should fix that!

I suggest everyone do this.

Post by **mike** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:59 pm

williamhamilton wrote:Just a quick note to say. BLOODY WELL DONE MIKE!!!

Upgrades/migrations can be such a pain in the a&& without a full test suite and group of monkeys to assits.. oh wait... lots of the monkeys have been posting on the thread already.

Everything will get sorted I am sure and look forward to doing some more "testing". Keep it up BUT make sure you get at least enough sleep AND get some time to work on yor beasty.. looking forward to bring nice cups of tea during your race.

W

your not wrong there, it would have taken me ages to find all these bugs and attempt to fix them. Supralux has been assisting with some of the css stuff which is good. The more you guys find, the more I fix and the better the site becomes.

got a big one to deal with next from what curly tells me :shock:

We'll get there in the end though :mrgreen:

kiwipete · Post by **kiwipete** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:24 am

Mike, can we make the profile buttons at the bottom of the posts larger or clearer to read please? The PM, MSN ones.
Oh and the font colours, can this be like a drop down list or similar.
No rush. :wink:

Post by **mike** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:26 am

Well I just put a turbo on the ore server. Should hopefully keep the load down on the server. Initial timings show a 2 fold in the number of requests it can handle. One side effect is people may sometimes get a blank screen (should be very very rare and only at peak times) this just means the turbo skipped a beat (seg faulted causing the web server to hang)

hopefully that should fix some load times for people.

ZZZzzzZZz :mrgreen:

skid · Post by **skid** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:28 am

nice choice of turbo Mike

pages loading faster again now

would be scary if you did a twin turbo converison

turoa · Post by **turoa** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:06 am

what kinda boost is that bad boy running?

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:42 am

Did you borrow the flux capacitor off the Rover Mike

Windsock · Post by **Windsock** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:20 pm

Thanks Mike for reinstating my account. Seems my password went awol in some of the changes and I wasn't recognised. Thanks to Euan for playing pass the message.

OK, like the site changes at a basic level and no doubt things'll get fine-tuned. One thing I'd like to see changed or information on how to change it is the default setting of dark grey text on a light grey background in all the messages. Makes for hard reading I think. More contrast between letter colour and page background would be awesome.

Post by **SV1K** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:41 pm

mike wrote:
skid wrote: but my topic notification emails seem doubled up and the first part has a huge font, like this.......................

This is the Subject lineHello skid, You are receiving this notification because you are watching the topic, "Site upgrade - New Features" at "Offroad-Express". This topic has received a reply since your last visit. You can use the following link to view the replies made, no more notifications will be sent until you visit the topic. If you want to view the newest post made since your last visit, click the following link: http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... 4&e=182884 If you want to view the topic, click the following link: http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... 20&t=15984 If you want to view the forum, click the following link: http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... m.php?f=20 If you no longer wish to watch this topic you can either click the "Unsubscribe topic" link found at the bottom of the topic above, or by clicking the following link: http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... atch=topic -- Thanks, The Management‏
From: mike@ore.co.nz
Sent: Tuesday, 21 April 2009 5:56:00 p.m.
To: skid (skiddynz@live.com)

This is the actual messageHello skid, You are receiving this notification because you are watching the topic,"Site upgrade - New Features" at "Offroad-Express". This topic has received a reply since your last visit. You can use the following link to view there plies made, no more notifications will be sent until you visit the topic. If you want to view the newest post made since your last visit, click the following link: http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... 4&e=182884 If you want to view the topic, click the following link:http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=15984 If you want to view the forum, click the following link:http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/viewforum.php?f=20 If you no longer wish to watch this topic you can either click the"Unsubscribe topic" link found at the bottom of the topic above, or byclicking the following link: http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... atch=topic --

wots up with that ???

click on the private messages, go into board preferences and turn off pop up alerts for pm's this should fix that!

I suggest everyone do this.

Hi Mike,

Thanks for letting us all know about the PM part...

Can you suggest a fix for receiving the same message as SKID in email notifications, in the Subject line I am receiving notification that there is a response to a threat that I am watching and then in the actual message I am being informed of it again, (just like SKID above, I have added in red the SUBJECT line and MESSAGE it's self)

Cheers in advance
Reece

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