New look for CodeProject [modified]
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We're at the point where the bulk of new code is outweighing the old code and so all back-end caching, pre-calculating and general maintainance is now all .NET. Plus, we've finally made it to the 20th century and stopped assuming 800x600 is the minimum standard. The site will work with sub 1024 x 768 but we just got sick of being so cramped. In doing so I took the opportunity to complete a redesign started about 4 years ago in order to have a consistent look and feel across the site. HTML purists will be happy to see more of the internals are now XHTML, and much of the formatting moved to CSS. Did I mention the 20th century. Yeah, I know... Comments always welcome, most especially when they involve bugs. Edit: Credit where credit's due: I should have mentioned that all praise (and the odd complaint) should go to William Kim, our AdOps manager for the design specifics. cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Edit: Credit where credit's due: I should have mentioned that all praise (and the odd complaint) should go to William Kim, our AdOps manager for the design specifics.
Is he colour blind? Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
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We're at the point where the bulk of new code is outweighing the old code and so all back-end caching, pre-calculating and general maintainance is now all .NET. Plus, we've finally made it to the 20th century and stopped assuming 800x600 is the minimum standard. The site will work with sub 1024 x 768 but we just got sick of being so cramped. In doing so I took the opportunity to complete a redesign started about 4 years ago in order to have a consistent look and feel across the site. HTML purists will be happy to see more of the internals are now XHTML, and much of the formatting moved to CSS. Did I mention the 20th century. Yeah, I know... Comments always welcome, most especially when they involve bugs. Edit: Credit where credit's due: I should have mentioned that all praise (and the odd complaint) should go to William Kim, our AdOps manager for the design specifics. cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Overall, I like the new colours & layout. I think the green menu bar is great - really stands out as the primary navigation interface. I think the logo looks a bit amateurish - i.e. the white drop shadow and the squashed font. The top bar doesn't really need to take up so much vertical space. In the lounge the left bar is too wide - since the topics menu is not there. But luckily with Firefox extension I can just right click > remove. Nice job though - overall a worthwhile facelift!
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We're at the point where the bulk of new code is outweighing the old code and so all back-end caching, pre-calculating and general maintainance is now all .NET. Plus, we've finally made it to the 20th century and stopped assuming 800x600 is the minimum standard. The site will work with sub 1024 x 768 but we just got sick of being so cramped. In doing so I took the opportunity to complete a redesign started about 4 years ago in order to have a consistent look and feel across the site. HTML purists will be happy to see more of the internals are now XHTML, and much of the formatting moved to CSS. Did I mention the 20th century. Yeah, I know... Comments always welcome, most especially when they involve bugs. Edit: Credit where credit's due: I should have mentioned that all praise (and the odd complaint) should go to William Kim, our AdOps manager for the design specifics. cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Plus, we've finally made it to the 20th century and stopped assuming 800x600 is the minimum standard. The site will work with sub 1024 x 768 but we just got sick of being so cramped.
What about those of us who read the web in portrait mode on a tablet PC? In portrait mode my screen is 768x1024. Reading an article is difficult when you have to scroll left/right for every line. An option to hide the left bar while reading an article would be useful, as well as allowing that header to shrink down some more. Maybe my next tablet will have higher res in portrait mode :/ --Keith
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We're at the point where the bulk of new code is outweighing the old code and so all back-end caching, pre-calculating and general maintainance is now all .NET. Plus, we've finally made it to the 20th century and stopped assuming 800x600 is the minimum standard. The site will work with sub 1024 x 768 but we just got sick of being so cramped. In doing so I took the opportunity to complete a redesign started about 4 years ago in order to have a consistent look and feel across the site. HTML purists will be happy to see more of the internals are now XHTML, and much of the formatting moved to CSS. Did I mention the 20th century. Yeah, I know... Comments always welcome, most especially when they involve bugs. Edit: Credit where credit's due: I should have mentioned that all praise (and the odd complaint) should go to William Kim, our AdOps manager for the design specifics. cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Looks good. I just had an eye bird review of new home page and it was really good. Just one small thing. I can see the bottom scroll bar which should really not visible on 1024x768 resolution. BTW, I noticed that on home page only. Sameers Need custom software? Contact DevelopersINN[^] Need to add reminders for your Outlook emails? Try Outlook Personal Assistant[^]
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We're at the point where the bulk of new code is outweighing the old code and so all back-end caching, pre-calculating and general maintainance is now all .NET. Plus, we've finally made it to the 20th century and stopped assuming 800x600 is the minimum standard. The site will work with sub 1024 x 768 but we just got sick of being so cramped. In doing so I took the opportunity to complete a redesign started about 4 years ago in order to have a consistent look and feel across the site. HTML purists will be happy to see more of the internals are now XHTML, and much of the formatting moved to CSS. Did I mention the 20th century. Yeah, I know... Comments always welcome, most especially when they involve bugs. Edit: Credit where credit's due: I should have mentioned that all praise (and the odd complaint) should go to William Kim, our AdOps manager for the design specifics. cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
-- modified at 17:55 Sunday 9th July, 2006
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We're at the point where the bulk of new code is outweighing the old code and so all back-end caching, pre-calculating and general maintainance is now all .NET. Plus, we've finally made it to the 20th century and stopped assuming 800x600 is the minimum standard. The site will work with sub 1024 x 768 but we just got sick of being so cramped. In doing so I took the opportunity to complete a redesign started about 4 years ago in order to have a consistent look and feel across the site. HTML purists will be happy to see more of the internals are now XHTML, and much of the formatting moved to CSS. Did I mention the 20th century. Yeah, I know... Comments always welcome, most especially when they involve bugs. Edit: Credit where credit's due: I should have mentioned that all praise (and the odd complaint) should go to William Kim, our AdOps manager for the design specifics. cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
-- modified at 17:55 Sunday 9th July, 2006
Chris Maunder wrote:
HTML purists will be happy to see more of the internals are now XHTML, and much of the formatting moved to CSS.
To be XHTML you need a doctype of XHTML. Your doctype is still HTML 4.01 Transistional. Also as part of XHTML you need to specify the xhtml namespace. See http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/normative.html for more details. G.
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We're at the point where the bulk of new code is outweighing the old code and so all back-end caching, pre-calculating and general maintainance is now all .NET. Plus, we've finally made it to the 20th century and stopped assuming 800x600 is the minimum standard. The site will work with sub 1024 x 768 but we just got sick of being so cramped. In doing so I took the opportunity to complete a redesign started about 4 years ago in order to have a consistent look and feel across the site. HTML purists will be happy to see more of the internals are now XHTML, and much of the formatting moved to CSS. Did I mention the 20th century. Yeah, I know... Comments always welcome, most especially when they involve bugs. Edit: Credit where credit's due: I should have mentioned that all praise (and the odd complaint) should go to William Kim, our AdOps manager for the design specifics. cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Yeah, html purists will be happy right now my tidy says there's 15 errors / 658 warnings / 1698 access warnings
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This is tomorrow's task: clean up and expand the categories. You'll notice there's no ASP.NET and VB.NET at all. We'll fix this and make the single-sized-menu-fits-all a little more comfortable. cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Yeah, html purists will be happy right now my tidy says there's 15 errors / 658 warnings / 1698 access warnings
In reply to this and the above post: The internals are XHTML (ie the bits generated by the new systems). The rest of it is good ol' ugly, poorly formatted circa 1999 HTML. It'll all get fixed. cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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We're at the point where the bulk of new code is outweighing the old code and so all back-end caching, pre-calculating and general maintainance is now all .NET. Plus, we've finally made it to the 20th century and stopped assuming 800x600 is the minimum standard. The site will work with sub 1024 x 768 but we just got sick of being so cramped. In doing so I took the opportunity to complete a redesign started about 4 years ago in order to have a consistent look and feel across the site. HTML purists will be happy to see more of the internals are now XHTML, and much of the formatting moved to CSS. Did I mention the 20th century. Yeah, I know... Comments always welcome, most especially when they involve bugs. Edit: Credit where credit's due: I should have mentioned that all praise (and the odd complaint) should go to William Kim, our AdOps manager for the design specifics. cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Appreciate having more info per square cm, but I still hate the predominance of Orange, Purple and Green - if I want psychodelia then I'll take something for it thanks, don't want it coming out of my tube. Why not start a competion for creating the ability to let the viewer change the color scheme of a web site. On a more serious note, there is a feature I definitely don't like, I'm assuming its a feature and not a fault. I use FF and like most other folks who use FF I have Adblock installed. If I block the ads on the message compose page (ie the one I'm using now) then I can't enter the text. You may see this as a service to your sponsors. If I were a sponsor I wouldn't, the last thing I would want on a site which I sponsored is something that annoys the consumer, especially if it involves my ads. I'd much prefer that you change CodeProject's garish corporate colour scheme. Of course if its a bug then I guess you'll fix it - I've checked other sites and the problem is not manifested, so I don't think it an FF or Adblock issue. Rgds PhilD