I could never get the old site to remember who I was, so that's a non issue.

Sidebar reads better today for some reason........

New digs work for me.......and my "scroll wheel" thanks you........

However, I also get the "&bnsp" thing. I'm using Vista w/ SP1 and IE7.

Bill - the "&bnsp" - that *everyone* is seeing - what is your Firefox or Safari-based problem? Details, please - we actually did make every attempt to make this work for Mac-based and non IE-based browsers. That was a primary design consideration.

Still a problem for me.  I have fire fox.  I think that problem came from while I was putting an entry in the system.  While I was putting the entry in, it looked perfectly fine.  However, when I previewed and then posted, still those nasty little marks showing up.

does anyone else see it?

Now *kat's* has disappeared.

However, I posted the Meme, as required, ry and XBradTC actually *saw* it, so I revealed my innermost soul *and* got off a John-sized snark at Cassie -- and got away with it!

Win-win!

Firefox 3.0 is MUCH faster on page-rendering. For this particular blog, I can't say if the new Gekko engine made a difference, or if Wesley tweaked something, but it seems a bit more legible now.

There is, however, now a VERY annoying trait when I press <Enter> (and I undestand that counts as a paragraph break) the whole bloody page jumps around so that the new line is at the bottom of the  comment pane.

Jeez that's bloody annoying! :(

It doesn't happen when I toggle "full screen" edit on.

info: WinXP Pro SP2, Firefox 2.0.0.14 (no, haven't upgraded yet), 1024x768 rez.

I like the current colors; IIRC the beta used some hideous low-contrast combo similar to what's seen on the " | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)" line. Black on very light khaki looks fine. Also like the new wider "main post" text width. The font size somewhat large to me, but I may be in the minority there. The full-screen comment toggle is excellent.

I do miss the "John, Dusty, and Bill" grafs from the earlier version. Do you intend to cycle all three versions of the page header?

Whoa. I was checking an old version of the blog on the wayback machine, when the above-mentioned page header changed from the cannon to the Hog image. It seems to change when I click on it, when I click refresh, or both.

Dunno if it's my screen resolution, but I see a healthy 1" or 1-1/4" margin on both sides. This impresses me as wasted space.  Do you have that set as a number of pixels, or percentage of the screen?

Also, what blog engine is driving this place?

 P.S. Going to see how quick this saves...

P.P.S. Even after using Preview, my info is still retained. :)

BUT! Whoever coded it thinks that nobody uses MAC in either Safari, or Firefox.

**Sigh**

Bill

It's not *that* so much as she keeps dodging toward the gun rack...

I just tried a smaller font size - while it shows it in the editor, the template isn't allowing it.  We'll see.  I'll go face-to-face with Wes tomorrow and we can sit around the machine poking and prodding.

Unless she let you.

[to see Bill's reply, kids, highlight the space between the bracketed sentences and then change the letter coloring to mauve]

Yeah, but chasing you around the room isn't my idea of foreplay.

[so, how'd it work?]

Gentlemen, WELL DONE!

Can I compliment this design without implying that the previous one was a putrid piece of crap? I thought so.

Only suggestion, the top part where you talk about the rules, make it a slightly smaller font so that it isn't the entire screen when you arrive.

I just wasn't sure if that would be too much tan for one web page (though the last design had a lot of all one color). Let me know what you guys think. Its easy to change so we can try it out for a bit and change to something else if you don't like it.

Can I do secret words?

We shall also see if there's the usual 5 minute delay before a comment is posted.

Black on grey Ry?  I see black on dark green  and it is all a bit squinty I suppose.

I'm with Ry on the spacing issue.

Hmm personal details remembered let's see that too.

Let's roast Ry and feed him to the moat monster aesthetically disadvantaged being.

• Oh lists!  You're all doomed to feel the wrath of my list addiction.

List is a tad buggered it needs the break I think.  preview is buggered, at least for me.  It shows the preview just fine but doesn't carry the code over. Let's try again.  Hmm odd magic preview was fine this time.  How odd no grey in the dictionary.  Ageist!  At least I spelled most of it right for once.

WSell done Mr Peck, now you get all our whinging and even more work.

So, stop moving around...

The posts are easy to read, but the black on grey of the right side bar isn't quite cutting it, imo.  Hard to pick out some of it.  BUt that could jsut be the way I've configured my monitor, so, again, if everyone else is fine don't mind me.  And the Veteran's mental health stuff is important enough that it should be flashing neon sign if needs be, neh?  Everything else seems fine to me.  It'll just take a little getting used to. 

Thanks for the heads up on how to better utilize the stuff from the writing end, Wesley.  Much appreciated. 

Cheers

But I don't care for some of the same stuff you don't - we'll tweak it.  We could have just kept tweaking and tweaking and tweaking but at some point, you just need to go public and let people break it.

It's not like it's an OS or something...

2)  Don't like that it automatically double spaces in comments on hitting enter, so far.  That might make things more intelligible later though.  We'll find out. 

3)  Don't like that comments no longer come up in a small 'screen in screen' window without right clicking.  That was one feature I really liked in all the previous iterations.

4a)  Don't like that *every* post now goes below the fold.  Some should.  Some shouldn't.  SOmething's lost now that they all do.   My stuff since it's wordy as hell def'n needs it but stuff like the Joe Hogan reports from Iraq should be seen in full on the main page, imo.  The looks like 100 word cut off before going below the fold really means we unpaid types are going to have to start using 'hooks' and 'leads' to get attention, and that's just crap.  I liked being able to set my own number of paras before going below the fold.  Maybe that's still there in the writing side, but everything I saw on the main page itself doesn't reflect that. 

4b)  Really, it doesn't really show which posts we're emphasizing.  I think we should have that capability on the main.  Funny stuff or the everyday stuff sure, even then all you have with the H&I is the preamble showing, but big stuff like Unka Bill's Postacard's and major stuff is going to get short shrift.  I remember when Barnett told his audience how he wanted stuff sent to him.  I thought it realy arrogant at the time, but now it makes sense.  People are lazy and really value their time, and so making them go thru one more step to get to the good stuff seems like a bad move to me.  But whattaIknow?  I have no real sense of aesthetics and I admit that. 

5)  Like the new tools bar.  It'll take some playing with to get used to, but it looks a lot more usefull than the last one.(Now, could we add a spellcheck function, please?  Yipe!) 

And, again, never had any problems with any of the other iterations.  Don't know why you're changing Boss, but I don't have to since I'm unhired help. ;)

I'm sure you'll let me know if they aren't :)

Pardon our dust as we clean up the paint drips and sawdust.