Hello,

As you can see, we have put the new bulletin boards live.

The migration went smoothly, though it look at little longer than I expected it to!

If you notice any problems on the boards, please post below.

J.

Just an experiment

And another

One more
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http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=856421
Some more work needed by me

Some help required I think

digger, check out the fix I did on post 122.

J.

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TRIAL

Ta TJ hope I can remember it
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I have the impression that the site is slower than previously .I have an 8M connection and previously it was loaded as I clicked the thread. Perhaps it is only my connection.

Digger,

What area of the site?

J.

It is just a general impression ,but it may be totally this end and nothing to do with the site .Will check with Process Explorer and monitor tomorrow.

TJ Cleaned the reg seemed to speed the system my end

Sorry to be a wet blanket but I'm not taking easily to this new format.

The smaller print (or is it just a font change) combined with the squarer buttons looks fussier, harder to read, and somehow less 'open and friendly'.

The colourful little icons are simply unnecessary, and draw the eye away from the main point of interest, which is the poster's name. I think they ought to be relegated to the Profile page for each poster, accessed by clicking on the poster's name, as before. (Do the icons slow down page-scrolling, btw?)

Have to say I also liked the (old) 'Recent Posts' button, rather than this page-centred format. (ie : with the new Page numbers, 1,2,3,4 etc... as the only way, as far as I can see, of jumping immediately to recent posts.)

Jeez, this is the sort of design that (rather frighteningly) I can imagine that I might have come up with as a 'good idea' before I realised the error of my ways.

I leave it at that. End of sermon.

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Re posts #46 & #52 - thanks for the reply JT. Obviously I don't know what the position is in this case but my (programming) experience is that sometimes things like column order may appear to be major changes but in fact are fairly easy to effect, albeit with some fiddly col-width reformatting. I appreciate it's not of immediate concern though.

Re post maggot's post #51, I agree with him that it's useful to have the last post on a page repeated as the first one on the next. Yes, I know the numbers follow in sequence, but that's not how users read. We don't keep a mental note of the number of the post we've just read; we know the content of the post we've just read and like to glance at it as a point of reference, of navigation.

Here's a silly one - I can't post .29!

edit: now when I try to edit what comes out as .29, even the edit box is telling me I typed .29 - but I didn't. It was supposed to be (dollar sign) 12.29.

StonyB,

Thnks for the feedback - I shall pass it onto JT.

Chocolat,

Interesting - is this just happening with dollar signs? I will let JT know,

Ian

chocolat/Ian - I mentioned this to J yesterday - I think he's working on it.

Kyoto,

Thanks I will get him to update here when he has looked at it,

Ian

chocolat - might be stating the obvious - but I've been putting a space between the dollar and the number in the last couple of days - works.