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    #32
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    I think it frackin' rocks.

    Always thought the existing menu was like, sooooo, 2002.

    The jury's out on the "always there" business. Maybe if the height was a few pixels less...
    Actually no - I like it.

    <anal>
    Can a similar grey border to the one that (oft times) appears in the dropdown be added to the left of the "navitem" cells when hovered? At the moment it looks a tiny bit off because there's no border there.
    </anal>

    Great job. :)


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    #33
    Kinetic^
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    I'm viewing this on my eee 1000 and it pretty much takes up the whole screen when I highlight one of the categories. Anyone else tried it on a netbook?

    If it's an optional thing then awesome.


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    #34
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


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    #35
    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,564 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    Goodshape wrote: »
    I like the functionality of it. Definite improvement there.

    Couple of things ::

    --- I don't like the 'scroll with the page' feature. Bit distracting when trying to read.

    --- It's all a bit chunky. Though maybe that's more to do with this big blue theme it's on (I use 'Classic' which is a little more subdued).


    Good work though!


    //edit.
    Actually, I could totally get over the 'scroll with the page' thing. It is handy. I think it's just that sky blue which draws my eyes to it. Moar themes pls!

    I really like the scroll with page feature, as it saves you the scroll back to the top to go elsewhere. Otherwise as people have noted the look and feel is a little chunky and the music drop down jumping to left is a bit of a long way to mouse too. These are minor though and I'm sure can be easily reviewed once the concept is agreed.

    Only other issue I see on IE8 and vista is a slightly longer than expected delay for the pop up. It's not *too* slow, but it is slower than the old style drop down.


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    #36
    Eoin
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 21,239 CMod ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    White space isn't always a bad thing. If it's the difference between working for different resolutions, then by all means shrink it a little, but I think it's a lot nicer than a solid block of small text.


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    #37
    Ross
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,150 ✭✭✭Ross


    For anyone reporting that the Music menu is showing up off left, can you post your browser version, OS and screen resolution?

    Will help narrow down the problem because it displays as intended on the systems I have to hand.


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    #38
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


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    #39
    kdouglas
    Registered Users Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kdouglas


    Looks good here on Ubuntu/Firefox 3/1280x1024

    Like the scroll with the page thing, but perhaps slightly smaller and maybe with a semi-transparent background would look good?


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    #40
    Nerin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    Really liking it. Good job Ross!


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    #41
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    I like it. Nice work Ross.


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    #42
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Ive just switched over to it. Ill see how i get on


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    #43
    darjeeling
    Registered Users Posts: 962 ✭✭✭darjeeling


    I like it. One thing is that the new menu bar doesn't seem to appear on the front page (i.e. going to http://boards.ie/?filter=subbed etc.). Apart from that, it's great.


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    #44
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Nice, I could get used to using that very quickly.

    One comment on "Search" is there no advanced search option any more?


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    #45
    Gazza22
    Registered Users Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Gazza22


    I like it and will be sticking with the beta! Thanks


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    #46
    CuLT
    Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    Hagar wrote: »
    Nice, I could get used to using that very quickly.

    One comment on "Search" is there no advanced search option any more?
    If you click on the actual search option itself it brings you to the advanced search. Might be too subtle, I was going to add an "advanced >>" link beneath the search box but held off to see what the reaction would be.


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    #47
    6th
    Registered Users Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    I like it.

    Off topic, I would love to see CuLT quote Ross at some stage :D


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    #48
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


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    #49
    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,564 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    Ross wrote: »
    For anyone reporting that the Music menu is showing up off left, can you post your browser version, OS and screen resolution?

    Will help narrow down the problem because it displays as intended on the systems I have to hand.

    IE8, premium vista and 1280x800.

    the subbed and science drop downs are one column wide for me and display correctly just below the name.

    Music is one column + one entry for traditional in second column for me and displays docked on left.

    All the others are wide enough so that the either jump off the left or right side of screen anyway.


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    #50
    6th
    Registered Users Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    I really like that when I scroll down I dont have to scroll back up to get to the top bar.


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    #51
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    too big - sucks


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    #52
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


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    #53
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    The stats page on the boards.ie dropdown isnt there yet.
    Also there is no option to select other styles in that dropdown. Has it moved? I like it overall. A bit freaked out by the way it gives the forum dropdown list so much whitespace. Also Rec as a category might need a bit of tweaking to make it a bit more linear. It's a bit all over the place to look at. I don't like the way AH is over there in the corner. It means that tiny bit more mouse movement to get there. However on the other hand the thunderdome has been rather usefully hidden.


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    #54
    Steve
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 22,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Top job Ross - very nice :)

    Working fine and looking great on FF3/XPP 1280*800


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    #55
    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Too, big, flashes on my 1600x1200 WinXP laptop Firefox 2.x

    Many 3.9" to 7" are 800x480

    Archos 605, 705, 5, 7 and 5-3G


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    #56
    projectmayhem
    Registered Users Posts: 9,481 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    6th wrote: »
    I really like that when I scroll down I dont have to scroll back up to get to the top bar.

    Yeah. I love it. Ironically I keep flicking the scroll wheel on my mouse to get back to the top. Old habits die hard I suppose...


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    #57
    Blowfish
    Registered Users Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    seamus wrote: »
    Initial impression is that every "tab" should be the same width. The "Boards.ie" and "Search" perhaps should be a bit larger, but all of the rest of them should be the exact same width, regardless of the length of the name.
    That was my first thought. The 'padding' around the names seems to be based around the length of the name, with shorter names having having less padding than longer ones. The other way around would have made more sense imo.
    Ross wrote: »
    For anyone reporting that the Music menu is showing up off left, can you post your browser version, OS and screen resolution?
    That happens to me for Arts, Games and Hosted (Ubuntu 9.04, FF 3.0.10, 1920x1200).

    [edit] Actually, just noticed, Rec, Regional, Soc, Sports and Tech are actually right aligned for me too. The easiest way of seeing this is by decreasing your text size until it's as small as possible (ctrl and minus on FF).


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    #58
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    I love it. Some minor comments, but other then that, excellent job. :)

    - The category title in Red, doesnt look very good. Any other ideas here?

    - Is it normal that a forum may start at the bottom with its subforums in the next column? Personally I would prefer at least one sub-forum under the forum name. I assume its a layout issue due to different browser widths.

    - Agree with others regarding width of each category name on the menu. I think the divider between Boards.ie link and Search link is fine.

    - Any chance getting private forums showing if your a member?


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    #59
    Daysha
    Registered Users Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭Daysha


    The very first thing I noticed when I loaded it up were the uneven tab sizes across the menu. It just looks lopsides when you have arts, biz and edu squashed together in the left with region and science pretty far apart.

    Maybe I'm just used to the old way too much, but is there any chance the waiting time when waiting for the menu to drop down can be decreased? Not a huge issue though.

    I do love how it scrolls with you though.


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    #60
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Vista + IE 7.0.6001 has the music bug...

    DeV.


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    #61
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    DeVore wrote: »
    Vista + IE 7.0.6001 has the music bug...

    DeV.

    Ditto, Xp pro IE 7.0.5 1280 x 800


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