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Old July 9th, 2003, 10:34 PM
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New "article" column
jcaputo,

I dig the new article column.

Two ideas, however, on the layout:

1. Organize the article links w/ topical headers, such as:
PHP
  1. article
  2. another article

Perl
  1. article
  2. another article


Topical organization would allow for faster location of articles meaningful to each individual reader.

2. As long as you're taking up those 185 pixels on the RH side of the page, why not extend the article column all the way down, as well? vB allows you to set a pre-determined number of thread links per page; just measure out how long that is, and allow the article tile to extend to the same length. This would balance the page 'feel', as well as allow you to post more content.


Just some thoughts. Otherwise, its nice - gives me something else to click on when I'm reading thru the forums.
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Old July 10th, 2003, 12:13 AM
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On the subject of grouping, either make the article list articles related to the forum currently being browsed, or group them with headers as drgroove suggested, then place the group of articles related to the current forum at top, followed by the other groups. I think this would increase the use of those links and thus the number of folks following them, which I believe is the point of them being there in the first place.
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Old July 10th, 2003, 02:05 AM
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damn, it really messes up when working on a 14" 800x600 screen. hardly any space left for forums
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Old July 10th, 2003, 02:34 AM
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lol, 14" ewwwwwww

Yeah, it would stuff things up just a tad
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lol@computer. you mean hardly any space left for anything.
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Old July 10th, 2003, 03:35 AM
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Next he is going to complain that the site takes to long to load on the 486DX/2 with 28.8Kbps modem... lol.
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nah. i'm on a workie laptop...... 2mb connection tho thru intranet
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damn, it really messes up when working on a 14" 800x600 screen. hardly any space left for forums


Hey man, come visit us sometime - the 21st century is a rockin' place to be.

We're all using 1024x768 up here... some, even more than that. I'll send you a postcard...
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Old July 10th, 2003, 09:25 AM
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hey! it is a work pc. my home pc(s) are a lot better....

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