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Look what I did on my summer break

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  • C Chris Maunder

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    Mohamed Mitwalli
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    Well you did so much ;) :thumbsup: i like it alot :thumbsup:

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      cmger
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      Well done, sir! Looks clean, tidy and modern. I like it! :cool: Regards, Chris

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        DaveAuld
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        things are starting to look better, but the font too small, head over to the Page | Text Size menu and go larger, and it doesn't make a bit of difference so your style sheets can't be using scaled fonts from base and are using fixed sizes. On the whole though, thoroughly refreshing, and great to see, as I did recently begin to think the site was getting a bit 'stale' if that is the right word. Have a :beer: on me!

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        • C Chris Maunder

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          aasim abdullah
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          wow, its really kooool.

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            bbirajdar
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            Excellent..5+ for the design team..

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            • C Chris Maunder

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              Meshack Musundi
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              It looks great Chris.:thumbsup: I honestly hated the previous look. This one is more clean and professional. I have an issue with the new font though. It's too light and with such a bright background the text gets blurry, for me, after reading a few words. Other than that good job.:thumbsup:

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                Sean Holm
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                2 thumbs up.

                "What bug? It runs fine on my workstation"

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                  Eaverae
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                  looks cool :)

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                    Fabrice Leal 0
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                    Looks awful X|

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                      bitterskittles
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                      Metro style promotes excessive use of whitespace, and the new design is less functional even if the webpage scaled to 75% as it adds more whitespace to the left and right sides. 10 :thumbsdown: 20 GOTO 10

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                        Mike Ortmans
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                        Where am I... :-D :thumbsup:

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                        • C Chris Maunder

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                          Aiscrim
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                          I really like the new menu, but the listing of articles in the home page imho is too minimalistic.

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                            cjb110
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                            Quite like it tbh. Though you might alienate the non-Microsoft side of the user base!! :-D A bit more pop to some of the colours though, the orange in the article section headers fades a bit too much into the background, needs to be more vibrant. And actually the article text would be better if darker too. The quick answers boxes (the number of answers and views) needs a look at...they run into each other too much. The fluid layout is far far better than fixed too, think that should be standard.

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                              destynova
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                              Nice! I much prefer this lighter, clear style. :thumbsup:

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                                Rob Grainger
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                                Overall, I like the design, some issues from my point-of-view though: 1. I don't like usability of the new forum - its hard to see which posts have been read previously, are popular etc. 2. It bugs the hell out of me to have the News section relegated right down the page - on the old site that tended to be my first port of call.

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                                  JimBob SquarePants
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                                  First thoughts: It's definitely a step in the right direction. Code Project need a complete refresh aesthetically. The actual html source code could do with a tidy also ;P . Second, Third and fourth thoughts.... I needs a whole lot of love for this to be successful. Metro is more about typography and consistency than anything else and this is missing. Here's a list of things I would look into. Please feel free to ignore me though. In no particular order: 1. Line height and font size - Define it once and let everything inherit from that. 2. Headers - Font-weight, cascading size 3. Forms - The login page for example is a bit of a mess. Define consistent form layouts and input size, behaviour etc, define button types for each action type (red means warning to me). 4. Colouring. Find a complementary range and stick within it. Make sure call to actions stand out with contrasting colours. There's more but I don't want to drag on. Have a look at http://www.codeplex.com/[^] where they have just recently done a refresh. It's a bit bland but it's neat and everything seems to be in the right place.

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                                  • C Chris Maunder

                                    OriginalGriff wrote:

                                    Have you overreacted to VS2012

                                    Specifically, yes. Thank you for noticing that.

                                    cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                                    Bassam Abdul Baki
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                                    Guess my BS (Bugs and Suggestions) post was a late.

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                                      leandroshan
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                                      It does look great, congrats !:thumbsup:

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                                        Nice! Some of the grays are a bit subtle... but overall I give it high grades.

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                                        Pablo Aliskevicius
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                                        Me too. I'd prefer black on white to light grey on white, wherever possible. Easier on my ancient eyes...

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                                          Fabio Franco
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                                          I don't know, I have mixed feelings about it. For 1, it does looks more simplistic in detriment of flashy (kind like why I like Windows Phone), but something doesn't seem right, it may be the getting used to. Two things I don't like are: 1 - Forum threads are not easily distinguishable. It's not very evident when one topic ends and the other begins. 2 - I can see less replies in one page, it's gotten bigger and not necessarily easier to read. Anyway, congratulations, you've tackled very well the change phobia.

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