Please hire a graphic designer ...

[Ron Dunn]

... or at least stop playing with the "tabs" on the entry page. Each iteration looks worse than the one before!

[ubeaut]

Please hire a graphic designer ...:brick:Ouch
:sorry2: No I'm not.

Keep ya shirt on Ron.... If that's the worst thing that's happened to you all day, you've had a really good one and should be thankful. Life's too short to get upset by what the tabs on a forum look like for a few minutes.
Give us a break will ya.:gaah:

Neil :U

[Cliff Rogers]

You could ask Chris to give it some polish. :D

[Ian Smith]

Neil,
I read some place that the an oil painting was a process which protected the canvas from the elements and exposed it to the critics.
Looks like it probably applies to web pages as well :)

Ian

[chrisb691]

You could ask Chris to give it some polish. :D

Cliff,
As much as I would like to help, I'm just too busy at the moment. :roflmao2:
Neil is doing a fantastic job......thank you Neil. It has to be incredibly hard trying to strike a balance, as you can't hope to please everyone....especially when you're giving them something free. :)

[ubeaut]

Wiki (default) skin done. I think. Now for the others. :C

[echnidna]

... or at least stop playing with the "tabs" on the entry page. Each iteration looks worse than the one before!

:2tsup:

[Sturdee]

If that's the worst thing that's happened to you all day, you've had a really good one and should be thankful. Life's too short to get upset by what the tabs on a forum look like for a few minutes.
Give us a break will ya.

Fully agree with you Neil. For weeks now I've been more concerned with recovering from my operation than worry what the forum looks like, what direction it takes, etc as all I looked at was my own thread on my illness.


Life is indeed too short to complain about such really little things as the shape of tabs. Get real and start living rather than wanking about inconsequential things.

Still have to work out in details what you have done, but I'm sure it is for the best.


Peter.

[silentC]

Glad to see you're feeling better, Peter :D

[Daddles]

Give us a break will ya.:gaah:

Neil :U


Don't be bloody silly, you might start imagining we appreciate the place if we did that :rolleyes:

Richard

[Big Shed]

... or at least stop playing with the "tabs" on the entry page. Each iteration looks worse than the one before!

Jeez, are you offering to pay for that?:doh:

Let's face it, how many "iterations" has Mickysoft Windows gone through, each at extortionate cost, and it still doesn't work as advertised.:no:

Please bear in mind how much you are paying for this..................

[Rookie]

Funnily enough, how the pages look hasn't ever really been a big thing with me. I figured out pretty quick how to navigate to the forums I frequent. I reckon it's a lot better than having ALL the forums listed on one page. I was wearing out the wheel on my mouse. :C

[snowyskiesau]

I hadn't even noticed the tabs until this thread appeared.

My browser is always on the New Posts page and I just refresh to get the latest posts.

Having now looked at the home page, I reckon the tabs look pretty good.

[flynnsart]

And today all the tabs fit across my screen. :D

[Durdge39]

For what it's worth (and to throw a spanner in the cogs of this thread :oo:), I took 5 minutes out to fiddle with ye olde Photoshop. Here's a nice rounded tab similar to what's there that might make it smoother, with the rounded corners and all. I'll cut it down to a particular size for each tab if you want, just say the word and ill do it over my next cuppa.

:2tsup:

[ravlord13]

I DON'T realy care what the forum looks like, just the content !!:2tsup:
This one is full of everything.
You can learn, laugh, brag and on the odd occasion even cry.
Neil for my money this is one of the best sites on the net, bugger the rest of them it is your baby treat it as you want.
I rue the day I click on my favorites and this fotum is not there.

Catch ya
Andrew

[Blocklayer]

Congratulations Neil, when they start complaining about the graphics of a forum site, I reckon it means you've 'made the grade'.
No 'This doesn't work' or 'That doesnt work', just 'I don't like the way that looks'

I made a site of mine all different colours to make it easier to use. Looks crap, but it's a LOT easier to use. People comment on how ugly and 'un-cool' it looks, but not about it being difficult to use. I'd much rather have it ugly and functional than pretty and hard to use.

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[Master Splinter]

Personally I liked it just the way it was before the forum split. It's a bugger having to look at two sites now.

[glock40sw]

Ditto.

[joe greiner]

I didn't notice the tabs until my mouse wheel got a rest. The brief experiment with colours made them more noticeable, but it's taken only a day or two to become accustomed to the new navigation.

Like Blocklayer says, if this is the only complaint about the BEST FORUM IN THE WORLD, all is well.

And a belated HB, and thanks to all involved.

Cheers,
Joe

[wheelinround]

Like the yellow ones till I saw the one there now

[ubeaut]

Durdge39 - Thanks for the offer. I can do that but it's not quite as easy as just dropping a graphic in and that's it. Wish it was. It's all done with php and css and html codes etc. The graphic bit is easy. It will get a lot better in time but for now it's steady as she goes with the plain and simple.... Kinda.

Cheers - Neil :)

[Ron Dunn]

You are all correct ... content is more important than appearance, and grumpy old men like me should go and create more shavings :)

[Durdge39]

@Ron: That's right! Back to your shed! :U

@Neil: Seeing as the pages are PHP, like most of the prepackaged forums, and assuming you have the knowledge to do so (I only know what to do, not how to do it :doh:) you could replace that tab with a PHP include tag, that included a HTML table with a setting of 0 for cell buffer, and border so it sits cleanly on the top of the forum table. Set each cell to be an absolute size of each tab, just run text in the box, centered and have the image as a background image for each cell. Using the same link outputs of the current tabs it should, and this is in theory, should work. Best of luck if you try it out, and if something goes wrong, it wasn't me who said this. -shuffles away quietly-

[Rookie]

Seeing as the pages are PHP, like most of the prepackaged forums, and assuming you have the knowledge to do so (I only know what to do, not how to do it :doh:) you could replace that tab with a PHP include tag, that included a HTML table with a setting of 0 for cell buffer, and border so it sits cleanly on the top of the forum table. Set each cell to be an absolute size of each tab, just run text in the box, centered and have the image as a background image for each cell. Using the same link outputs of the current tabs it should, and this is in theory, should work. Best of luck if you try it out, and if something goes wrong, it wasn't me who said this. -shuffles away quietly-

I lost him when he said "Seeing as the pages...." :C

Love it when you guys talk dirty

[Ron Dunn]

*lol* ... another change!!

One thing that would really improve the appearance for next to no effort is to use mixed-case instead of upper-case.

There is a lot of research available that shows the readability of upper-case text decreases a lot:

WOODWORK METALWORK RENOVATION
vs
Woodwork Metalwork Renovation

We've progressed a long way from the era of typewriters, when upper-case was one of the few methods of emphasis available ;)