Website "quirks"

PartieHonteuse · Posted: Mon 01/02/2006 5:26pm [Post #1]

I know this site is new and I expect some things not to work correctly but (there's always one of these) there's just one thing..the way the "blocks" don't align correctly. Especially when some text on the website uses a long line of text (i.e., subjects to forums, some posts with attachments, username in the "who's online" block. I've tried this site on Firefox and IE, still happening. What I mean by the above is say someone posts some really long text in the subject line of a forum post, now whenever I go into the Help Forum (or whatever forum they posted their topic to) the forum shows on the very bottom, not in the center "block". Then you have a user with the registered name of "help2go@allancarstens.com" so whenever he/she signs on the alignment of the tables is thrown off.

not sure if anyone else noticed this and I'm sure there are way more important things to do rather than hearing me nag about this, maybe you guys could chalk this up as a "partie is sick and is being a real _____", read the post, nod, smile and say "partie, stfu already" Wink

Partie™

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Osc · Posted: Mon 01/02/2006 5:55pm [Post #2]

No - Partie - you are right. The moderators and I have been discussing this for the past week or so and are trying to iron out all the layout problem. Unfortunately, once we fix one, another seems to pop up.

The issue is with the way that IE and Firefox handle CSS differently. Firefox is more forgiving of layout issues, and IE will just break the divs and place them elsewhere.

So if you spot any layout problems like that, please post them here, and I will fix it as soon as I can...

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cruz1701 · Advanced Tech Joined: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 252 Points: 47

I'm not too sure if this is appropriate for this topic but you can always move it if its not. Whenever I load a topic page it creates what almost looks like boxes or txt under the page, normally where someones avater goes. I thought this might be a fault at my end but help2go is the only site that does this so I thought I'd mention is. Might be something or nothing . . .

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Osc · Posted: Tue 01/03/2006 7:30pm [Post #4]

cruz - which browser are you using?

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cruz1701 · Advanced Tech Joined: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 252 Points: 47

Firefox 1.07.

I might upgrade to 1.5 now I figured out what was stopping me downloading things from some website. Zone alarm :p

I assume a setting on zone alarm is also the reason it refuses to log me in automatically every time I go to the site, I get here no ads, click on the forums and then I see the ads again Sad

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Osc · Posted: Wed 01/04/2006 10:25am [Post #6]

We're still having a few problems with the login box. I'll try to get those sorted out today.

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steamwiz · Posted: Wed 01/04/2006 6:06pm [Post #7]

Partie ... about those long names...

If we get osc to delete ALL accounts where the users name is more than 12 characters, we can have our "members on-line" box back again Very Happy

Oh ... just a minute ... PartieHonteuse = 14 Laughing

steam

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Osc · Posted: Wed 01/04/2006 7:24pm [Post #8]

The Who's online box will be back soon - I'm coding it to just cut off anyone whose name expands beyond the boundaries...

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PartieHonteuse · Posted: Wed 01/04/2006 10:04pm [Post #9]

lol steam, it wasn't a complaint about long names, it was a complaint able table breaks. Smile

Partie™

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cruz1701 · Advanced Tech Joined: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 252 Points: 47

Jsut to update you osc, after deleting all the help2go cookies on my comp it keeps me logged in, or has done so far Smile

And the pages load fine in firefox 1.5, no idea why though. Smile

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Mich · Posted: Thu 03/30/2006 1:35pm [Post #11]

same problem comes up on the "View unanswered posts" page. The table columns are wider than the other pages so then the whole center of the page loads under the blocks on the left.

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Basementgeek · Supreme Guru Joined: 01 Jan 2003 Posts: 12000 Points: 1188

Mich:

When the forum layout changed in Jan 06, things changed. The reason that they are appearing "down under" is because the "subject" line was too long, with no spaces. Many of the older post had a too long subject line

For an example this post:

http://www.help2go.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemi d,32/page,viewtopic/t,19042/

The poster original subject was: Windows/mouse/touchpad
This sent the entire forum down low.

I changed it to : Windows/mouse, touchpad.
Adding the space brought the whole forum back to where it belongs.

You will also notice that many things appear low, when you are previewing your replies, because of long URL, etc. But in posting the response should appear were it belongs.

Hope this answer your question.

BG

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