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Hi admin,

Not sure what changes you have made or what have been "forced upon you" by the board change, but I have afew suggestions which might help with the usability...

1. Can we have the Login moved to the top so that it is easy to get to ?
Scrolling down past all the forum topics each visit might get annoying.

2. Can the chat window have the names list to the side like the old one ?
The new chat window has the list very narrow and under the chat screen which reduces the chat screen size.
This will also help to move the forum threads index higher up the screen instead of having to scroll quite a way down each time to read posts.

3. Can we make the whole board wider ?
It seems the format of the forum is set to a narrow width rather than spreading out to fill the screen like the old forum layout. Means a lot of wasted screen space on the high resolution screens of today's technology.

4. Does the New Post button have to change to birds when the mouse moves over it ?
Just makes the function of the button get lost.

On the plus side ...
I love the colours.
They reflect the colours of the bush and beach, where we all go camping and holidaying

I understand any change take a while to adjust to, but some changes can make things more difficult than they need to be and a small adjustment could make things so much easier. Maybe others would like to comment about my suggestions also ?

Just some friendly suggestions.
Thanks,
Kevin.

Thanks for the reply.

I see the login at the top.

I also get the yellow at the sides but it probably fills 1/4 of the screen each side.
A side-effect of the fixed width of the page layout is that when people insert pics wider than the page width, they overlap the blue border on the right side as in the new post by AussieUsedCaravans in the following link...
newbie-from-melbourne-t892.html

Oh, in reference to the above, where did our controls go for inserting links and pics, etc ?
Or am I getting this confused with all my other forums and we never had those tools.
Do we all need to revisit our preferences and setup our profiles again ?

There is a [Hide] next to the Post a Reply above the quick reply box.
This might be for hiding the box but it does not do anything.

My screen resolution is 1920 x 1200 so plenty big enough for the forum format. Maybe pictures size according t the screen resolution but the forum borders do not ?

Thanks for letting me know about the formatting of your old posts. You only have 282 of them to edit LOL.

Going through the user control panel I have added an avatar which is less than the indicated maximum of 200x200 but it still overlaps the online icon near my name in posts. I'll change my avatar size for now but please keep this in mind with the other picture display overlap problem mentioned earlier.

I have also noticed that in the chat window, individual member chats do not expand the message area if the message is longer than will fit on 2 lines.

Thanks.

I'll test out the resolution thing by changing mine to see if anything is different and let you know.
The birds are not a big problem, just annoying as you said.

Always glad to give feedback, and always happy to "go with the flow".

Nope, resolution change did not help.
What browser are you running ?
I am still on IE6

hey kev may screens are all showing the pict and avatars at the same size and in there repective columns so it must have something to do with your set up bl#%&y high text stuff always gets me too hahaha

just a small question how do you add smilies in the chat box? i can add the when posting a reply no worries its just in the chat room.