Board Maintenance - 7/8/2012

[American Patriot]

Don't ignore the color scheme. LOL

Olav did that. More than once.

[Ryan Ruck]

Oh yeah, I remember that when he upgraded the AN board SW.

Personally I've found darker colors to be easier on my eyes and the default colors are just too bright.

[American Patriot]

I don't like white pages with black letters.

My kindle works nice because it's got a gray background with black letters.

My Fire is nice because I have finally put it into a case like a book cover, set the screen for a light parchment color with dark letters, usually larger text and spaced the lines so I can read it better. No more eyestrain from reading now.

[Ryan Ruck]

Revamped site launch, take 2!

And, it was worth the wait folks. I was able to get the old attachments and photo album content integrated into this new software despite more than a couple hoops that needed jumping through.

Everything else from here out should be relatively small potatoes.

Thanks for bearing with me ladies and gentlemen!

[samizdat]

great work ryan. I hate changes, and miss the red & blue, but thanks for your xtra work.
speaking of small potatoes...I just unearthed > half kilo sweet potatoe. Yup. Internet lies. says you kant grow em in
a bag, bucket. foto later.

[Ryan Ruck]

Fear not! That old color scheme will soon return!

It will just take a little bit of time to get all the settings correct.

[Ryan Ruck]

Okay, got some of the color changes made but now it's getting late for me.

There are a lot of variables that need changing so getting the colors 100% ironed out will take a bit of time.

[Phil Fiord]

Yay! Less of that blah default. One thing, maybe its my screen or not, but this red currently is like dayglow bright to me. Wasn't the other red a tad toned down from this?

[Ryan Ruck]

It might have been. I can tone it down a little if it is too much.

[Ryan Ruck]

I think I've gotten the color scheme setup properly and gotten the other style details worked out.

The only thing that really remains are some of the design elements of the front page that need customized.

I will also be setting up the Facebook and Twitter integration shortly. These features will allow you to publish threads and posts to your Facebook pages and Twitter feeds.

If anyone finds anything else they think needs attention, please don't hesitate to let me know!

[vector7]

Looks awesome!!!!

Love the color scheme.

Maps...

When in mobile some white lettering in the threads are tough to read.

Overall looks great!!!

Thanks Ryan!

[Ryan Ruck]

Yeah, hadn't had a chance to get the mobile view customized yet, just the main one.

Getting the mobile site to look like the regular theme is on the to-do list for sure.

[American Patriot]

Ryan,

This is great. It will take a couple days to get used to the format and layout (even though it similar, it is just different enough that these old eyes have to hunt for things now) - but I like!

[Ryan Ruck]

Thanks Rick!


Just wanted to post that we have the chat room back in action. Just click on the tab up top!

There is also a new post "thank you" system. If you notice at the bottom of all the posts there's a little "Thanks" link. Clicking that will thank the poster for their post so that others can see if it has been helpful. You can remove thanks you leave.

[American Patriot]

we ought to test out that chat room sometime. lol

[MagnetMan]

Yay! Less of that blah default. One thing, maybe its my screen or not, but this red currently is like dayglow bright to me. Wasn't the other red a tad toned down from this?

Yes, I agree the red seems much more vivid for me. MIght be because I am color blind, but I think it's straining my eyes.

[Ryan Ruck]

Is it still too bright guys? I had toned it down a little bit but I can do it some more.

[AGEUSAF]

Is it still too bright guys? I had toned it down a little bit but I can do it some more.

Seems perfect to me.

[Ryan Ruck]

Wanted to solicit opinions for any possible widgets to add to the front page in addition to the "Site Visitors" and "Fox News Feed" widgets.

If it can be coded, there's a pretty good possibility of adding it!

[American Patriot]

Colors seem better than yesterday. Not as... striking maybe.

Fox news ticker? How about a ticker that pulls news from several places?