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Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« on: August 26, 2010, 03:31:01 pm »

We just moved all forum users to a new Interact theme called 'jriver', and disabled user selection.

The jriver theme should have the same header and footer as http://www.jriver.com.

Please let us know if it is working correctly for you.  You may need to refresh your browser.

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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2010, 03:45:50 pm »

I must be getting old... but ... I find the contrast between the black Header with the non-selected options in "Home, Download, Putchase, Support, Company" poor and uncomfortable to see (coul dbe that Black is not a great "background" colour).
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2010, 03:53:15 pm »

I noticed the same thing on my wife's laptop screen.

I just lightened the color.  Could you try it again:
http://www.jriver.com/index.html

(the forum and wiki still use the old color if you want to compare)

Thanks.
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2010, 04:10:12 pm »

The new blue header backgrounds are better. The black stripes were a bit too in-your-face. I was going to suggest gray and already did a couple of mockups (attached), but the current color may be as good.

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1. The old black
2. My suggestion
3. The source of the gray color
4. A fine-tuned version (The headers are the same blue as the darker blue in the top bar and the light gray areas are neutral instead of tinted with teal color.)

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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2010, 04:12:53 pm »

Looks good here :-)

I wonder if Simple Machines will ever get around to releasing SMF 2.0
I've had the RC version on my small forum now for sometime and it seems stable, but they seem to insist it's not ready for go live yet.

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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2010, 04:15:40 pm »

I noticed the same thing on my wife's laptop screen.

I just lightened the color.  Could you try it again:
http://www.jriver.com/index.html

(the forum and wiki still use the old color if you want to compare)

Thanks.

Much better - I can even see shadow detail now!
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2010, 04:19:27 pm »

It's a big improvement, but...

Speaking of contrast, I find the extreme difference between the new banners and the white space around the forum content a bit jarring—especially when those white spaces are large. I note a view of a topic alternates a shaded with a very lightly shaded background by post. Maybe the colour of the white space could be changed to the same as that light shading—to soften the overall impact of the page. :-\
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2010, 04:22:36 pm »

+1 - I quite like the "grey2"
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2010, 04:33:23 pm »

+1 - I quite like the "grey2"

Actually I did a mistake -- the names were incorrect. gray2 was incorrectly named gray1 and vice versa. They are fixed now.
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2010, 05:21:21 pm »

I'm getting the following "code" at the bottom directly under the newegg image

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0; i--) { if (codeFix.currentStyle.overflow == "auto" && (codeFix.currentStyle.height == "" || codeFix.currentStyle.height == "auto") && (codeFix.scrollWidth > codeFix.clientWidth || codeFix.clientWidth == 0) && (codeFix.offsetHeight != 0 || codeFix.className == "code")) codeFix.style.height = (codeFix.offsetHeight + 36) + "px"; } if (window_oldOnload) { window_oldOnload(); window_oldOnload = null; } } // ]]>
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2010, 07:25:59 pm »

I'm getting the following "code" at the bottom directly under the newegg image


Yeah, same here.

All in all, great job guys. I like the new look a lot!
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2010, 08:14:06 pm »

I'm getting the following "code" at the bottom directly under the newegg image


Yeah, same here.

What browser (and plugins) are you using?

Thanks.
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2010, 08:24:55 pm »

It looks fine here.

I'm using Firefox.
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #13 on: August 26, 2010, 09:02:34 pm »

working here.

A couple of suggestions, if you don't mind (having created numerous YaBB forums in a previous life).

There are too many colors on the forum pages, and they split between dark (black, gray, blue), and gray-scale with a purplish hue.  The purplish background doesn't work color-wise with the blue MC logo.  Since blue is your logo color, use it more in the forum.  And the MC logo might be good to replace that teeter-toter (or whatever it is) log.  Attached is a fast mockup.  I didn't bother to hit other areas, but they would be updated too.  And I added black in the triangle of the logo for a rollover affect, just for fun.

Just my 2c.
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #14 on: August 26, 2010, 09:06:08 pm »

What browser (and plugins) are you using?

Thanks.

It's only an issue for me at work where we have an ancient version of IE - v 6 I think.
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #15 on: August 26, 2010, 10:19:26 pm »

Looks great - I like the new site look.

Is there any plan to get a mobile friendly forum site?

Specifically, the top ad (for the Media Center Remote $35) and the News section make it hard to brown this website via phone.

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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #16 on: August 26, 2010, 11:45:48 pm »

The Shrink/Expand (+ -) button next to search doesn't work reliably after the first time for me on FF for Win.
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #17 on: August 27, 2010, 03:02:25 am »

The same happens on Opera. I have to refresh the view before I can use it again.
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #18 on: August 27, 2010, 06:38:17 am »

The Shrink/Expand (+ -) button next to search doesn't work reliably after the first time for me on FF for Win.
+1 here too
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #19 on: August 27, 2010, 06:45:13 am »

I love the way you can hide the top thingy with the way-to-high Remote Control image. Only problem is that you have to refresh the page to hide or expand the second time (as others mention). ONE thing I'm missing on the new theme is a link directly to the Forums, from the main menu (home, download, purchase, support, FORUM, company).

Yabb.jriver.com is just not something that most of us remember I think.
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #20 on: August 27, 2010, 08:43:27 am »

The Shrink/Expand (+ -) button next to search doesn't work reliably after the first time for me on FF for Win.

Same here. I tested it with IE and FF. Same issue.
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #21 on: August 27, 2010, 11:53:43 am »


Is there any plan to get a mobile friendly forum site?


Maybe jriver could add support for tapatalk to the forum:

http://www.tapatalk.com/
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #22 on: August 27, 2010, 12:45:07 pm »

What browser (and plugins) are you using?

Thanks.

IE8 in compatibility mode does it. Turn it off and run true IE8 and it works fine.

The Shrink/Expand (+ -) button next to search doesn't work reliably after the first time for me on FF for Win.

IE8 reports the following error when this happens:
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Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Timestamp: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:46:07 UTC


Message: Object required
Line: 32
Char: 4
Code: 0
URI: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=19.0


Message: Object required
Line: 32
Char: 4
Code: 0
URI: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=19.0


Message: Object required
Line: 32
Char: 4
Code: 0
URI: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=19.0


Message: Object required
Line: 32
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Code: 0
URI: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=19.0
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #23 on: August 27, 2010, 01:23:34 pm »

Thanks for the help.

The expand/collapse issue and code in the footer area should be fixed.
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #24 on: August 27, 2010, 04:23:57 pm »

I like it!
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #25 on: August 29, 2010, 10:21:30 am »

i like the new forum. i do miss something from the old forum though. there where these nice links to for instance the dev zone... just had too find my way through the faq to get there.  :P
or am i missing something

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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #26 on: August 29, 2010, 10:35:17 am »

Actually the FAQ thread contains several links that still point to www.jrmediacenter.com or www.musicex.com, including http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/devzone.html .
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #27 on: August 30, 2010, 06:55:30 am »

The expand/collapse issue and code in the footer area should be fixed.
It does seem fixed - thanks.
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #28 on: August 30, 2010, 04:53:01 pm »

I am not to keen on the new home page, and other pages etc...

Did someone give JimH access to make changes?
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #29 on: August 30, 2010, 05:24:16 pm »

You would be astonished if you knew what he's allowed to do.  Talk about your unreported crime problem.
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #30 on: August 30, 2010, 09:21:52 pm »

I am not to keen on the new home page, and other pages etc...

Did someone give JimH access to make changes?

I don't know, King... I suspect you might not be too keen on changes of most sorts.   ;)

As for Jim, you gotta watch him every second, don't you?
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #31 on: August 31, 2010, 06:01:24 pm »

The top third of the "Spell Check" window has the Black Forum header bar making it impossible to see the text.
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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #32 on: August 31, 2010, 07:49:04 pm »

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Re: Updated forum theme [TESTING NEEDED]
« Reply #33 on: August 31, 2010, 07:56:51 pm »

Not true

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Maybe you mean Jeff Beck?
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