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I like it...easy on the eyes and now different to floorten. A nice job...well done

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Thanks mate! For this revision, I wanted to really get away from the back colour scheme of the 2003 version, and after having some rather nasty things said about me over on the Floorten.com forum several months ago, I basically wanted to sever any ties I had with that place, and that included the colour scheme for the web site and forum...

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I'm enjoying the new design so far - like the greens and blues - they work well.

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Well, I can't seem to find any green anywhere in the web site anywhere (aside from our covers), but thanks for the kind words all the same. Nice to know that you actually like something that we've done! When I saw you'd posted a comment, I honestly groaned inside, praying you wouldn't be slagging off the web site with the same passion as you slag off everything else we do...

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I find it surprising that 800 x 600 is the dominant screen res - you must have a lot of people out there listening to your audios from the dark ages :-)

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Possibly - 1024 x 768 comes a close second, but even on that screen resolution (which is what I myself run at) the web site still looks rather nice.

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On a technical front - to allow for this astonishing awful screen res, perhaps working the table sizes in percentages rather than fixed widths will allow you to give those of us in the 20th Century with bigger screens the opportunity to utilise our massive displays while still giving those who haven't updated the comfort they need.

There is no need really to lock off table widths at 800 when all you have to really do is ensure that your image sizes to not exceed that length and then allow the tables to expand out to say 90-95% to spread the text out.

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A nice idea, but the problem with that is that it means I loose having an idea of what the web site looks like on a larger variety of screen resolutions, because the larger your screen res is set to, the more fucked up the tables slowly become, and the less easy it is to plan for a variety of screen res types. With the fixed width tables idea, it means you can set your web site up to look exactly how you want it, and that formatting will not change, no matter what screen res your visitor has.

In addition to that, the way I have locked off the tables to particular widths is actually the way professionals recommend you do it - in fact, you'd be hard pressed to find a professional web designer use percentage-based tables, simply because it draws away from allowing the designed to have final say in what the web site looks like for the visitors.

Just as an addition, my brother (who is a professional graphics designer by trade) had a look at the new revamp on his 23-inch Apple Cinema display on his G4, and he said it looked fine, and that the fixed table widths I used were perfect. And to be honest that's saying something, as my brother rarely has anything nice to say about the work I do!

Just out of curiosity, Trevor, what size monitor do you have, and what screen resolution do you have it set to?

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The most noticeable place this occurs is on the opinion forum - a lot of wasted space for a medium that is predominantly text based.

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I agree the forum has a bit more in the way of wasted space when compared to the rest of the web site, but there's very little that I can do about it, as Ezboard seem to do something funny with any HTML code I submit.

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I won't vote until the site is totally complete - but perhaps - but just one question - is the site to be more the primary base for use than the opinion forum as has cropped up once or twice in discussions?

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Not really - you may have noticed I've tried to merge the web site and the opinion forum to be a lot more seamless, so as to avoid having the Opinion Forum look like something separate from the rest of the web site. Under the new design, it's all just one entity, but the Opinion Forum will still probably be the place to read Production Reports and such like.

However, one thing I have decided to do with the new revamp is link to the Opinion Forum more from the main site. So, for example, if we do post a Production Report, you will be able to access it directly from the relevant story page on the web site, thus making things more interlinked.

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The start you have is great - opening page with spiel and sidebar with latest downloads - may I suggest an additional page entitled "Latest News" or somesuch on which words can slowly build as they get pushed off the main page?

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Wait and see... wait and see...

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A great new look for the site and the forum, well done!

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Thanks Morgan! Nice to know my hard work over these past few weeks has been well received by all!

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Just a few points, 'Doctor Who & The Monopoly Pub Crawl...' is apparently set between Dominion and Past, Present, & Future Danger

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Thanks for spotting that - it's fixed now...

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and the links to 'Magical History Tour - Behind The Radio' & 'God Rust Ye Merry Gentlemen' don't work

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Well, I've fixed the error in the link for God Rust Ye Merry Gentlemen, but I'm yet to actually encode and upload the doco for The Magical History Tour, which is why that link doesn't yet work. But it should be active within the week.

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Just thought I'd point out the errors!

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No problems - am glad someone is pointing them out. Much appreciated.