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Site Management => Site Support / Feedback => Topic started by: jg18 on October 25, 2011, 08:48:38 pm

Title: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: jg18 on October 25, 2011, 08:48:38 pm: I dunno if anyone else has noticed this, but since there are now multiple news items from Sandwich, with one of the items being significantly longer than the other, when the News area on the forums' main page changes from one item to the other (it only displays one item at a time), the entire page below the News area shifts, since the News area's size is adjusted to fit the currently displayed item. For me at least, this periodic shifting around is kind of distracting.

Would it be possible to make the News area's size fixed to, say, the size needed to display the longest news item currently available? That way, the page wouldn't shift around every few seconds.

Alternatively, I guess you could just display all News items on the forums' main page at all times, regardless of how many there are.

What does everyone else think?
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: mjn.mixael on October 25, 2011, 09:04:35 pm: I knew I wasn't crazy!

I thought I kept noticing the forums jumping around.. now I know why!
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: jg18 on October 25, 2011, 09:17:23 pm: Yeah, it took me a while to figure out what was going on.
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: Rodo on October 25, 2011, 11:50:24 pm: I don't find it that annoying to tell the truth, but if that could be done it would be better.
I love the news bar btw, very nice fading effect between each one :yes:
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: Fury on October 26, 2011, 12:16:53 am: It is kinda annoying that news are displayed TWICE on the main index, on the yellow bar and then under News. At least you can hide the lower news by clicking the minimize button on far right. On the other hand, the news on yellow bar do not cycle unless you refresh the page. But even more so, the news about FS network must be months old by now. Is it really necessary to keep flashing news that are no way current anymore?

I'd get rid of the yellow bar and instead improve the News section of the index to draw more attention to it. There's no need to have two places to display news, it just takes up vertical space which is already eaten up by ads and highlights. In fact, on high resolution displays the upper part of the main forum index looks seriously underused as far as horizontal space is concerned and unnecessarily takes up vertical space instead.
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: mjn.mixael on December 14, 2011, 09:53:59 am: OK, Ima throw my voice in on this one yet again...

Several times now I've gone to click a link, the news switches size and I end up clicking on someone's name instead. Super annoying... Fixed size plz?
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: Bobboau on December 14, 2011, 04:45:36 pm: I was actually just coming in here to congratulate who ever programed that as it looks great, however I do agree it would look much nicer if it was at a fixed size.
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: jg18 on December 14, 2011, 10:10:32 pm: Ah, good, other people got around to bringing this issue back up, since I was about to do so myself.

EDIT: The size issue aside, it does look nice, as Bobboau pointed out.
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: LordPomposity on December 16, 2011, 01:40:26 pm: Uh, yeah. This is growing rather annoying.
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: Sandwich on January 10, 2012, 08:57:13 am: I've removed the longer news announcement, and will keep the issue in mind for future news posts. :)
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: Colonol Dekker on January 10, 2012, 10:43:04 am: /me whispers........

<whisper>Frames, you know they make sense.............they're our friends...........Frames................</whisper>
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: Sandwich on January 10, 2012, 08:27:11 pm: /me smacks Dekker upside the head with a wet trout
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: Goober5000 on January 11, 2012, 12:08:54 am: Woot frames! I wuv Web 1.0!
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: Colonol Dekker on January 11, 2012, 12:59:11 am: <3
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: Sandwich on January 11, 2012, 05:41:29 pm: Quote from: Goober5000 on January 11, 2012, 12:08:54 am
Woot frames! I wuv Web 1.0!

http://staff.hard-light.net/sandwich/archive/1st-site-1997/
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: Goober5000 on January 11, 2012, 06:56:57 pm: Ha! I remember that Viacom campaign against Star Trek sites. Though I'm fairly certain the logo didn't have a ribbon in it...
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: The E on January 11, 2012, 07:14:46 pm: Lacks <blink>
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: Sandwich on January 11, 2012, 08:58:51 pm: Quote from: The E on January 11, 2012, 07:14:46 pm
Lacks <blink>
I knew better, even back then.
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: Goober5000 on January 12, 2012, 11:11:42 pm: Is that the same page as it was back in 1997? It contains a suspiciously large number of references to that era of the web all in one small space. A specific page about an animated GIF, a link to RealAudio, a list of every popular search engine, a page with samples of tiled background, etc...
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: Sandwich on January 13, 2012, 10:10:20 pm: Yup. My very first. :D
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: Fury on March 13, 2012, 07:09:39 am: Speaking of news, could the Google+ bit be removed already? It's been there ages.
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: Sandwich on March 13, 2012, 07:01:20 pm: Yup, thanks - done.
Title: Re: Could the News area on the forums' main page be a fixed size?
Post by: Yarn on November 28, 2012, 07:11:11 pm: This problem has returned with the new theme. If the news area can't be a fixed size, couldn't it just display all the news items, or allow the user to manually cycle through them?