New Look For Front page

Re: New Look For Front page

PostBy: DVC500 at last On: Mon May 25, 2009 12:24 pm

Another way to guarantee a comlpete page "Refresh" everytime you visit the web page, is to setup your IE Internet Options to force a Refresh everytime you visit the page.....
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Re: New Look For Front page

PostBy: coaledsweat On: Tue May 26, 2009 9:26 pm

In the immortal words of Chevy Chas, "I LIKE IT!" :shock:

Nice graphics, quite a splash. :)
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Re: New Look For Front page

PostBy: rockwood On: Tue May 26, 2009 11:57 pm

"I LIKE IT!"

Ah, Modern Problems, great movie! :D
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Re: New Look For Front page

PostBy: grizzly2 On: Wed May 27, 2009 7:12 am

Richard, I don't understand all the technical stuff, but I do like the organization and looks you are going to now. Thanks, nice job. :up:
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Re: New Look For Front page

PostBy: ceccil On: Wed May 27, 2009 10:18 pm

I never gave it a thought before. If you are having a problem with the size of the text on the index page, you could adjust the font size. There is an "A" on the top right of the page where you can adj. the font. :idea:

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Re: New Look For Front page

PostBy: LsFarm On: Thu May 28, 2009 11:39 am

traderfjp wrote:It might be interesting to do a poll to see who has broadband. I can load the most graphically intense pages in under 2 seconds. If there are only a few users with slow connections then you could offer a text version to go along with a graphical front page.


Having broadband is like having a car, do you have a Yugo, or do you have a Ferrari ?? Or do you have a confused system that one moment is a Ferrari, but then becomes a Yugo?? Broadband ISP's are not all blazing fast.. some are rather mediocre. In fact most are mediocre.. Since I travel all over the country, and use probably ten to fifteen different ISPs per month, I get to sample the available systems fairly well.. and most are NOT all that fast.. Cable vs DSL is another issue.. mediocre to slow.

So I think simple, minimal graphics to allow faster intial downloads... sometimes the initial download takes enough time that the ISP gets confused and starts over again, and again.. the 'action bar' just crawls along

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Re: New Look For Front page

PostBy: Uglysquirrel On: Thu May 28, 2009 8:14 pm

I don't care what it looks like, I value the forum. Period. I need to donate, I don't have a paypal acct, can I still donate by snailmail?
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Re: New Look For Front page

PostBy: Richard S. On: Thu May 28, 2009 8:25 pm

It accepts credit cards, you don't need a Paypal account. There's a link on the lower left. It's not very intuitive though, you first need to enter an amount in the text box, hit "update" then click the link for the credit card option.

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