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gorebrush

Can this thread be used for general feedback?

Webmaster

Yes, absolutely. I still have a good amount of tweaking to do in terms of looks, but I rather hear as much now instead of afterwards.

shednik

I was wondering what was going on, until dynamik filled me in. So far I like the new design Johan!!

blargoe

Ya'll will probably want to go to the UserCP -> edit options and set your time zone

dynamik

Looking good, Johan!

How many hours were you going straight? I know you were going before I got up and after I went to sleep

Mishra

Oh thank heavens... A search button that actually does something real.

wedge1988

A much better forum to use, well done all!

brad-

I love the new forums with one exception...How do I put the User/Signature on the left instead of having it take up so much additional vertical space?

dynamik

brad- wrote: »

I love the new forums with one exception...How do I put the User/Signature on the left instead of having it take up so much additional vertical space?

That's a theme change that he's working on. That was my big complaint as well.

He had his hand's full yesterday, so I'm sure there's going to be a few minor things that'll be ironed out over the next few days.

royal

One thing I'd change is the bold for all the topic titles when you browse a forum. It's a bit too strong.

snadam

OVerall, great change! I'll hold my suggestions until I have a few days to tinker with it; that is, if I have any, because really this is all free for us, and I can't complain too much

Mishra

Problem

http://new.techexams.net/forums/showthread.php?p=280165#post280165

dynamik

Mishra wrote: »

Problem

http://new.techexams.net/forums/showthread.php?p=280165#post280165

Where do you see it being sorted the wrong way? If you go into a forum? You can change which way its sorted by clicking on the header. The default looks right (to me anyway).

Mishra

Try the 'IT Jobs / Degrees ' forum

Even if I change the sort it will default back.

networker050184

Mishra wrote: »

Try the 'IT Jobs / Degrees ' forum

Even if I change the sort it will default back.

Yep same issue here.

dynamik

The IT Jobs/Degrees forum and the iNet+ (who cares

) are misconfigured for the default sorting. All the other ones are correct.

paintb4707

I noticed you can go under User CP -> Options and at the bottom of the page you can change your message editor to include more features (ie: bold, underline, etc)

ThunderPipe

Okay. I'm digging the new look. A couple of questions about the visual stuff.

1. The little colored circle. Some are green, some are blue. (this is a visual reference...i got the online offline part)
And next to/under it, it gives senior member or junior member...What qualifies you to be either.
(i'm sure its the # of replies or time you've been a member, but how many, or how long)

2. Some just say member. And I've seen one that says "wannabe dynamic" and another that says "tux racer".
At first I thought this was auto-generated content, but maybe its user created???

I love the site by the way. You guys helped me get my first Certification just this past monday. MCP (70-270). The technotes Rock.
(I printed them all off individually...the PDF with all of them together would rock even more so)

P.S.
I was feeling like an addict yesterday when the site was down. I kept logging in over and over again...

tiersten

ThunderPipe wrote: »

1. The little colored circle. Some are green, some are blue.

Online and Offline.

ThunderPipe wrote: »

And next to/under it, it gives senior member or junior member...What qualifies you to be either.

Number of posts I believe.

ThunderPipe wrote: »

Some just say member. And I've seen one that says "wannabe dynamic" and another that says "tux racer".

It defaults to blah member but you can set your own in options.

ThunderPipe

I just noticed some of the answers to some of the questions. thank you. I feel dumb.

ULWiz

Definately like the new site. I felt so lost last night not having this site around.
Happy to see it was up again this morning.

And I am a Senior Member. That makes me feel Special.

Happy New Year Everyone.

JDMurray

Here's the link to the vBulletin v3.7 online manual, but so far I've found it rather lacking in the detail I've needed: http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/introduction

Webmaster

Thank for the encouraging words and support all!!

dynamik wrote: »

Looking good, Johan!

How many hours were you going straight? I know you were going before I got up and after I went to sleep

Thanks. I looked at the clock earlier today after Mike suggested some sleep and it was 5 min from the same time I woke up... just a day later. I'll probably remain a bit slow for the rest of the day.

That's a theme change that he's working on. That was my big complaint as well.

He had his hand's full yesterday, so I'm sure there's going to be a few minor things that'll be ironed out over the next few days.

Indeed, for some reason vBulletin shows posts in this modern style (good example of that style is expertexchange.com), but that will be changed to make it look similar to how it was. Meaning author info on the left and not above the post. I'll continue with tweaking the looks over the next few days. This include the bold titles of topic titles in the list.

Problem

http://new.techexams.net/forums/show...165#post280165

One of the last things I knew I had to do before taking a nap is setting the sort order for all the forums - no surprise I missed a few. I just updated those two forums. Not showing all posts is default behavior to save resources (i.e. when search engine bots crawl only the newest are included) something I'm not worried about since our new server is really overkill. Oh and the sort order is a setting in the User CP too.

2. Some just say member. And I've seen one that says "wannabe dynamic" and another that says "tux racer".
At first I thought this was auto-generated content, but maybe its user created???

Yeah, that's the Title, which is now customizable. The jr/sr member thing is the ranking (comparable to the 1-5 stars in our old forums). That will be changed as currently I think only 30 posts would result in Sr. I actually made the user title customizable to get rid of that distinction. We'll make up something more meaningful-but-casual later on.

Webmaster

JDMurray wrote: »

Here's the link to the vBulletin v3.7 online manual, but so far I've found it rather lacking in the detail I've needed: http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/introduction

Also check out the FAQ in our own vB install:
http://new.techexams.net/forums/faq.php (link to this FAQ is at the bottom right of all forum pages.

KGhaleon

Some changes like not being able to see certs under the username is kinda depressing now.

Webmaster

KGhaleon wrote: »

Some changes like not being able to see certs under the username is kinda depressing now.

Yeah those will be listed on the left as before when I finished tweaking the templates (today or tomorrow). Another nice benefit of vBulletin is the ability to search the member list on those fields.

Webmaster

There you go, back to legacy thread display. As you can probably see it needs a little tweaking, some parts don't always align properly - working on that right now.

dynamik

Ever use the web development plug-in for Firefox? Makes things like this a lot easier.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

To highlight the block elements, just go to outline > outline current element.

Webmaster

I'm going to revert back to the new style and work on a copy of the templates so you won't all notice every little change (and mistake

) I make till it's ready.

royal

Webmaster wrote: »

I'm going to revert back to the new style and work on a copy of the templates so you won't all notice every little change (and mistake ) I make till it's ready.

Awww, there goes the entertainment of watching someone else making mistakes. *puts the popcorn away*