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27-02-2002 10:18am

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smoke.me.a.kipper

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the links accross the top are so long now, i have a nasty lef-right scrool thingy here in college. can anything be done, to make them optional or less?? (for want of a etter word)

edit: using 800x600 btw.

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#2 27-02-2002 12:02pm
Cloud

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Names shortened, should be okay now.

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#3 27-02-2002 12:37pm
MiCr0

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just a thought
you could go the way of the tld's/usenet codes
.rec
.net
.tech
.soc
.edu
and so on

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#4 27-02-2002 1:06pm
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Ooh, I like that! Clever.

adam

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#5 27-02-2002 1:32pm
smoke.me.a.kipper

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cheers cloud.

great idea there MiCr0!!

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#6 27-02-2002 6:38pm
Celt

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Originally posted by smak
cheers cloud.

great idea there MiCr0!!

Why should the 90-95% of the users have to suffer from MiCrO's idea's for the other 5% who only have to put up with it for a few hours?

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(MiCr0): it had nothing to do with the width
Thought you wanted to rename them to shorten them, if it isnt so, apologies.[/edit]

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#7 27-02-2002 6:51pm
Figment

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couldnt you let the links wrap with the screen size?

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#8 28-02-2002 3:53pm
Kairo

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Ack! The new drop down menus are awful! Thankfully, they aren't present in Clouds theme..so I've just reverted back to the blackyness.

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#9 28-02-2002 4:08pm
smoke.me.a.kipper

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Originally posted by Kyro
so I've just reverted back to the blackyness.

once you go black you never go back!!

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#10 28-02-2002 5:48pm
leeroybrown

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Maybe if they were centred again.

(The new menu's aren't asthetically great)

Not as bad on the cloud boards theme tho.

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#11 28-02-2002 6:08pm
Cloud

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Strange - both themes have identical menus (except for the colours). Centered again.

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#12 28-02-2002 6:20pm
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menus dont seem to be working in opera

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#13 28-02-2002 6:21pm
Cloud

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Grrr

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#14 28-02-2002 6:34pm
strat

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2 suggestions on the drop down menus

1. can we have a link to the clans/other provate boards for us chosen few in such eleite priv boards

2. make the heading s of the drop down menu's clickable like "Society" brings u here ?

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#15 28-02-2002 6:41pm
Cloud

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1. Possibly
2. I think that should already work, did you check?

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#16 28-02-2002 7:59pm
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I cant right click and open in new window on these new ones, annoying

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#17 28-02-2002 7:59pm
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Yes there are no drop down menus in opera and im all scared and frightened

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#18 28-02-2002 8:48pm
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Just to confirm no drop down menus in Opera.

Doesn't phase me much as I hated them anyway

Gandalf.

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#19 28-02-2002 8:53pm
Cloud

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Well this isn't the end, I certainly amn't happy with the time lag - BTW the menus are coming from:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/index.html

I'll try Top Nav menu 3 or 4 tomorrow (using number 2 at the moment).

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#20 28-02-2002 9:13pm
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Are you able to put them back to default until then?
really annoying when they're not there.

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#21 28-02-2002 10:48pm
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please, please, please

kill the drop down menus.

I'm on a mac (ie 5.1) and they are d e a d l y s l o w.

seriously. they make the site more or less unusable for me (like taking up to a minute to reappear after a page change, meanwhile blocking all interactivity).

ta.

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#22 28-02-2002 10:53pm
Victor

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Can the box height for the drop down menu's be made slightly larger? Standard mouse pointer is about twice the current height.

thanks Daddy Cloud

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#23 28-02-2002 11:03pm
Kairo

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Noooo! You fiends. They're on Clouds theme now...and they still suck.

What was wrong with the old ones? No one had any problems until now

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#24 28-02-2002 11:45pm
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please get rid of the new menus or have them optional, they cause my browser to stutter all the time.
it really is annoying.

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#25 01-03-2002 9:52am
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Strange - both themes have identical menus (except for the colours).

The colour scheme on the Cloud boards theme means that they fit in a lot better.

Centring them is a big improvement.

And as for a height change, I'd say its best to keep them the same size and as unobtrusive as possible.

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#26 01-03-2002 12:20pm
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Oh, thank the lord ye went back to the original dropdowns. The new ones were icky!

adam

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#27 01-03-2002 1:14pm
Cloud

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Hehe!

Working on new ones, god you people hate change :P But I must admit, they weren't great...

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#28 01-03-2002 1:22pm
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The (new) new ones would probably be grand if you removed the transparency. Also, the Bugs / Suggestion option is wrapping.

Like the shade btw.

EDIT: Yikes! When I posted that, I flipped into Cloud's design. I'm frightened mommy!

adam

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#29 01-03-2002 1:28pm
Cloud

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Yeah I've forced the design on Bugs so I don't have to switch styles to see how it looks in both styles.

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#30 01-03-2002 1:29pm
Cloud

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This is supposed to work in all browsers so can we have some feedback?

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4+
Netscape Navigator 4.x
Netscape Navigator 6.x
Mozilla 0.9.x
Opera 5 & 6

As well as Unix Systems running X and Apple Mac systems running IE 4.5+ & Netscape & Opera

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#31 01-03-2002 4:18pm
Cloud

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Oh well I guess we're all happy so!

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