Ok, fuller responses...
Larger fonts throws out all sorts of calculations. It's already larger than what we'e got currently so confused it's not a complaint about the old site!
Will look if I can tweak the PM blue.
SunRuanEr:
is there a particular reason why you don't want to give us the option to collapse the right-hand menu up to the top?
A few reasons; Effort vs reward. The layout is new and everyone needs time to adjust. Lastly, having used it for quite some time, I don't think it's necessary.
Aethulred:
I also note the lack of a<Game> & < Main> menu at the top right of he page when posting
Main should be top left, called "Home". There was some discussion about whether to call it Home or "Main Menu". I've actually avoided Home as I think on RPoL it could be confused with going back to the game "home" screen. Might go change it shortly actually so could well become "Main Menu"! (c;
Game link should be on the brown menu; This forum > Game Menu. Should be the first option.
ppwhere:
One more idea... As the content part made thinner and we have sooo much "empty" space could the portrait made bigger? Or at least a config option for it in theme? If I'm right on the Character Details part it is 102px but next to a comment it is just 50px
Tried it and it actually messed with the layout of that section, pushes it higher than it normally is. While the name, bio etc are to the left of the portrait the "rMail" etc links are actually below it (and to the left).
Thought it was a good idea which is why I tried it, but it ends up not quite working and at first glance it also seems a bit too large and all the portraits dominate the thread.
ppwhere:
Also it looks to me <large> is not working in the new site and probably <smallcaps> too
Thanks fixed!
Pretty sure it gets larger.
Pretty sure it gets larger.
Pretty sure it gets larger.
Pretty sure it gets larger.
(If you've got a custom theme make sure you update it to get the latest changes.)
ppwhere:
And one last bug, alignment in easy tables looks dead as well right now...
Thought I'd fixed that one, will have to check it out some more.
ppwhere:
These probably well known problems as if I'm right you are working on the css now, just wanted to flag up them in case you didn't know about them
Always a tricky one. Some I know about and have been ignoring, others are on the to-do list and then lastly there's some that I'm unaware of. Just raise them here and I'll do my best to fix them pretty quickly if they're not a really stubborn problem.
ppwhere:
And hopefully a last css problem... Character details and easy tables again. 100% in the classic site meant that the full width of the current character sheet which could be used to create some very neat character sheets... In the responsive site 100% means a preset max width which makes it much less useful... If this is how it is designed to work I'll just replace it with some more hardcoded width settings so there are some options...
Have just hacked in something quickly, give it a go I don't have any good examples to test it against.
Raddek:
Jase, thanks for all the work on the responsive site - The one thing I've noticed in the scripting is that in the GM menu, private (language) groups, that the table for the 32 groups overlaps the "your account" sidebar. Basically the "This page scrolls right unless you use a wide screen -->" and groups 28 through 32 overlap with the sidebar.
Oh yeah, that was one I was avoiding. But I need prods to fix these things so fixed! Should side-scroll now.
horus:
Yeah, I was, maybe, a bit resistant to change. Reading over the UI recommendations jase mentioned sort of brought that home to me. Those recommendations are based on some sound principles and the results of well-controlled studies, as I recall.
I was quite resistant to it myself, took me a while to get used to the responsive layout (have been messing with it since 2012!). While (often self-proclaimed) experts aren't the be all and end all I had to recognise that (a) I didn't have a clue about aesthetics, typography and flow and (b) everyone was saying the exact same thing, couldn't find anyone to back up my cause! Begrudgingly tried the responsive layout and then eventually begrudgingly admitted they were right.
That said, we do have a need for wider content than most due to character sheets (pretty much that's the only reason actually) so I did widen it. It was originally around 65 characters per line, the 70, 80, finally 100. Now we're at 125 and I think it makes some pages look weird (compose screen, main menu, threads with brief posts).
Aethulred:
Noted an issuetoday where it did not acknowledge that I had read the message and kept it marked as new...
As pointed out by others this will probably be due to cookies between the two sites getting confused. Relog will help, also might seem odd but log out of rpol.net and just stay logged in to r.rpol.net.
nauthiz:
So, with the recent changes, noticed something odd with the vertical spacing of certain text elements.
Ah, thanks. The icons were forcing the text down. Fixed.
... and thanks Skald, looks good. Will save that for next time! (c;