Wow! We have upgraded our forums (finally?)!

You will see a little chaos as we dial in the new forum software. Please post your comments and suggestions here! It is all highly customizable and we will get it just how everyone wants it, to the best of our ability.

The first thing we are trying out is this 'welcome' page with news, etc. To get to your usual forums and threads, just click "Forum List" on the above nav bar.

Have fun!!

I am trying to set all the colors to what they were on the old forums and I will of course change the image on the header so that it's wider.

For some reason reason during the conversion, it added " marks in my sig around the colors. It went to color:"red".

Is there way to put in an automatic refresh option? I would want to be able to have the option of turning it on and off, but that would be very helpful.

Is that all you want for christmas VI? hehe.

Well NOT the only thing. :P

I have just learned (directly from the forums of the makers of these forums) that there is not the highlight feature of new posts and new threads that there used to be in the old forums.

That stinks, but we can live with it. We do get a small yellow paper pic of new posts, so we will just have to learn to look for them. It does not stand out as much as before, but we'll get trained to look for them.

The highlighting only seemed to work fitfully for me, anyway. If the browser was left open at the site, when I refreshed the page it would work (mostly), but if I closed the browser or navigated to another site it wouldn't.

That was the same for me Arnie. I always went and marked all threads as read and then it worked fine until I closed out again.

That is true, it was buggy. I am trying to ask if it's possible to change color of the left side icons (the paper thing and the folder). Now when something is new it turns yellow, but here we can hardly see this yellow.

the folder is just a gif. Simply find a folder of a color you like and rename it to http://www.ldwforums.com/ubbthreads/images/general/default/newfolder.gif

newfolder.gif and drop it in the default directory

me being a former windowblinds user, i would jump on http://www.wincustomize.com and look up some folder sets. You can find some awesome stuff.

I vote for pink!

i vote for anything but pink, i hate pink and it looks terrible on this color scheme...as we saw yesterday

I know, you would vote for black. Red would be good!

Orange!!!

Hey, no Polls on this board? Or only adm's can do polls? Should we have a poll for color choice?

I could live with orange.

I would like blue...I would want it to stand out

feel free to use

Sorry, I don't like the new forums....I like being able to see all the topics listed.

what do you mean, describe what you see it looks the same to me as far as listing of topics. Are you sure your not in threaded mode?

Only admins and mods can create polls. You should see what happens when just anyone can create polls....it's not pretty!

Should users be able to create polls.

Press 1 for yes.
Press Alt+F4 for no.



EDIT: For less advanced users this is just a joke. Alt+F4 will close IE down so don't actually push it

Joe, I took your post, but for some reason each time I vote IE closes. Wierd huh? Hehe

LOL

That's because Joseph is MEAN!

£o£, your such a goof VI. §illy §illy man.

I signed in this afternoon and I could see all the topics listed once again. Don't know what happened this morning. Maybe I inadvertenly got into the threaded mode?

yea sounds like it, or an admin was nice enough to go into your profile and switch it back for you

Looking around "dazed and confused"....doesn't seem that long since washed up on these shores of Isola from the RA and being "confused" back then as well, haha!!

A lot of "boxes" around to get used to....no problem ....seems a little slow when images are involved, or is it my imagination??

There's an expression here in Ireland (maybe you've heard it over there) that "a change is as good as a rest", haha!! Yes, like the new forum.....

Oh, and, you guessed it....I vote for purple, haha!!

Best of Irish,
Maura

I really like the new fourms, it's just a bit confusing.

Wow, I haven't been here in a week or so and boy did things change. I like the way it looks, just gonna take some getting used to navigating in a new way.

Like anything new, it will take some adjustment to get used to it. But I think it is greate! I happy they got it done!

A bit early, but MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and everyone else too! HAVEN'T BEEN HERE FOR A WHILE SO FIND EVERYTHING'S CHANGED! I think I like it, but will take a while to be absolutely sure....as with everything new..it will grow on me I'm certain.So what's the latest? I don't have too much time to browse the forums( Fora?) as I'm still on dial-up ( to be rectified soon) so please someone send me an update or whatever!

Thanks for the feedback. Still lots of broken links, but I am enjoying the new forums so far.

Carla is doing a great job managing the look and feel.

I would like to make the new posts and new threads MUCH MORE visible as even I have a hard time finding them....

Carla,

One thing that confuses is the number of 'sticky' threads in the forums, especially in the VV forum, where they take up three-quarters of the first page. While you're doing your housekeeping you might consider removing the marker on several of the older threads.

The last forum had the LDW lightbulb as the icon. No it is some sort of star/gear or something. Maybe we can get just the LDW box icon up there?

Site looks great. The highlight was convenient, but now there's a button to view 24 or 48 hours or 7 days, so that helps.

I agree, that there are a lot of stickies (plus some global announcements etc..). I will see what I can do.

I am testing new icon colors. This is what I have changed so far:

The icons of the newthreads, newposts and newfolders, moved arrow, jump to arrow: blue
The sticky icon and announcement: red
The poll icon: green

What do you guys think?

Blue is much better for the new threads, posts and folders! The yellow/gold was just two hard to see. As well as the red, although that was not a big problem for me.

Thanks!

blue is great! it stands out more for me, it was a bummer not have the highlight anymore but I'm getting used to it

looks good

I made the blue a bit more blue ( i think it was more towards lila-blue first). Now what is bothering me is that the new posts (in the first page) are the same color as the game guides books.

Could always try the game guide books as a forest green color like your link color. Green seems to mesh well in small doses on this site. Thats what id try.

tried green. In general i don't like to use all the colors of the rainbow, but I like to stick to a few colors.
My general feeling was -though- that using blue for the newposts and blue for the guides, could have been misread or even gone unnoticed, like if it's part of the design, but I could be wrong.

i know what you mean from a web developers standpoints. A website in general should have no more than 3 main colors at most and most other colors should be close shades of the original 3. I like the tropical color scheme of this website.

These are the colors of our logo (yellow/orange). Customers should identify immediately the official websites of a company from the looks and colors.

With that said, maybe the new message/folder should be a dark orange?

And the Help thread open books would look fine in the plain manila color like the form boxes.

wow! that blue really made it easy for me!

as much as i love the forum, all this yellow kills me. having to hunt for tiny yellow folders on a yellowish background was hard! especially since i am overly sensitive to yellow and tend to get headaches when i try to read on it, not to mention the fact that it makes my dyslexia kinda spin out of control...or maybe that is why i got the headaches in the first place.

anyhow....the blue icons made it so much easier on my eyes and on my poor cabeza.

I must say I cheat. The orange/yellow colour scheme is too bright for my liking. I switched to the ubbthreads scheme instead. Much more restful on the eyes.

To change go to My Stuff > My Preferences and change 'Your preferred stylesheet' to 'ubbthreads'.

Thanks Arnie...I always meant to say that you can change the stylesheet color to the ubbthreads, but I forgot!

Yes, thanks Arnie! I did not know you could do that. I just switched to this setting, and it is very easy to read this way.!

As many of you are noticing, we have added a couple new forums in the general category: News and Announcements, Contests, Polls, ReviewsAwards.

This will help our forums in a couple of ways: to be more neat by grouping together the same topics, to find things more easily and to have less sticky posts on the big game forums.

These new forums like News & Announcements will not allow users to start a new topic, but only to reply to the current ones.

I like the changes.

Wow I didn't know you could do that. thanks for the tip Arnie. Now I too have a restful screen!

I like the changes, the yellow on yellow is a bit hard on the eyes. I wait & see how i feel after a hour or so looking. I may do as Arnie said & switch to ubbthreads & see how it goes.
I tried the ubbthreads & it looked to boring & bland, but was easier on the eyes.