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Screen real estate wasted

oneweb · 2003-10-15 20:29:36

I bought a 19" monitor for a reason! ;) The boards homepage wastes 1/3 of the screen whilst simultaneously chopping thread names to very short names. This makes meh maaaaaaaaaaaaaaad. Ok, maybe not but I feel it's an issue. Regarde: (attachment) As one can see, the whowhatwhere table should be widened to the remaining %age…

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15-10-2003 9:29pm

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oneweb

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I bought a 19" monitor for a reason!
The boards homepage wastes 1/3 of the screen whilst simultaneously chopping thread names to very short names.

This makes meh maaaaaaaaaaaaaaad. Ok, maybe not but I feel it's an issue.

Regarde: (attachment)

As one can see, the whowhatwhere table should be widened to the remaining %age of the screen (ie, screen - lhs menu - rhs ad bar = post table width)

It is what it's.
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#2 15-10-2003 10:02pm
amp

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Given that I occasionally browse boards (for test purposes honest) on various servers with crap monitors that don't do anything more than 800x600 I'd be annoyed if anything messed that up.

I'm sure the countless users out there that steadfastly refuse to move up to a reasonable res like 1064x768 would back me up here.

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#3 15-10-2003 11:08pm
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Originally posted by amp
Given that I occasionally browse boards (for test purposes honest) on various servers with crap monitors that don't do anything more than 800x600 I'd be annoyed if anything messed that up.

I'm sure the countless users out there that steadfastly refuse to move up to a reasonable res like 1064x768 would back me up here.

I'm sure the centre table could be made as a % though so it fits all Res.

Maybe it's not viable in this case.

.logic.

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#4 15-10-2003 11:15pm
sinclair

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OH SWEET MOTHER OF JESUS
something like this bothers you?? Did u ever hear of a thing called a LIFE??? ROFLMAO

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#5 16-10-2003 7:29am
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Tags using %s would work well. Its only the frontpage anyway ffs , the rest of the site is fine.

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#6 16-10-2003 9:26am
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mentioned this before as a quick fix 'till a redesign...
Move the Spider pic over and down to the left under the Quick Links bar. Mover the Zeddy pic down opposite it to the right of the POTM stuff (so all the crap stuff is down at the bottom of the page).
Shop link gets more prominent by being alone, and then allow the 'What' column of the latest threads table to expand out he extra 125px or so.

Would look less scrunched up and would probably only take a few minutes work...

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#7 16-10-2003 2:40pm
Victor

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Originally posted by amp
I'm sure the countless users out there that steadfastly refuse to move up to a reasonable res like 1064x768 would back me up here.

Polls indicate that very few people still use 800 x 600 and stuff like that, e.g. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=86230&highlight=screen

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#8 18-10-2003 4:18am
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Aren't they rewriting the home page in a new and groovy way anyway?

We've been waiting a while for it actually - what's the status of it now?

Perhaps making it resizable with the browser window (by using percentages) would be a factor in this new page.

I'm tired...

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#9 18-10-2003 7:23pm
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friend of mine has that problem. Only in mozilla though, IE6 makes it all sexeh .

Heil Gates.

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#10 18-10-2003 10:23pm
oneweb

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Eeew! I just touched IE

Heh, anyway IE5.5 exhibits the same issue.

It is what it's.

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#11 18-10-2003 11:11pm
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maybe if you could let users select their font size in the browser...
or in the USER CP.

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