Site test

Paul · 2008-05-09 00:48:28

In case nobody had noticed. We are testing the site. If you notice any obvious mistakes please let us now. Its not complete yet so some of the links and menu items might not be functioning.

http://fluxbb.org

hcgtv · 2008-05-09 01:14:30

Cool, a sitebar on all the apps.

Edit: I like what Andi did here - http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki

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hcgtv · 2008-05-09 02:03:02

With the top sitebar menu, it's easy to bounce from app to app.

Should the white space on the sides be the same, as in bring the forum in more or let the home page out?

Paul · 2008-05-09 02:07:51

The forum needs coming in more.

hcgtv · 2008-05-09 02:14:33

Trac to the sitebar?

Do you get on IRC Paul?

Paul · 2008-05-09 02:21:43

I've been on there constantly for the past 10 days thanks to Neal and Connor's fascination with it.

Committed an update but I don't know if this forum is updating automatically.

hcgtv · 2008-05-09 02:36:07

Paul wrote:

I've been on there constantly for the past 10 days thanks to Neal and Connor's fascination with it.

IRC is a great medium for working on projects. On Windows, Trillian works pretty good.

Smartys · 2008-05-09 03:03:59

The forum stylesheets now reflect SVN (the forum does not update automatically).
I'll look into adding this to Trac this weekend.

Dr.Jeckyl · 2008-05-09 05:09:54

I like it! Hand coded I assume?

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elbekko · 2008-05-09 06:47:57

Very nice. Where on earth do you get the inspiration?

Would be nice to have a similar forum style.

Jérémie · 2008-05-09 06:51:50

Paul wrote:

In case nobody had noticed. We are testing the site. If you notice any obvious mistakes please let us now. Its not complete yet so some of the links and menu items might not be functioning.
http://fluxbb.org

One thought about the top bar: it's height might be too big, and on the forum it's margin between it and the content seems also too big.

I like it very much (from all perspectives), except it's somewhat (50%?) overweighted

jmp · 2008-05-09 08:39:03

In language packs page:

User contributed langauge packs

Smartys · 2008-05-09 10:41:48

jmp: Fixed
Dr.Jeckyl: Yup, coded by Paul

Paul · 2008-05-09 10:54:11

overweighted?

I just fixed some links on the download page as well. I fixed them directly on the server, not sure if thats a good idea.

jmp · 2008-05-09 10:57:01

I think he means it should be 50% smaller in height.

It looks good to me.

Paul · 2008-05-09 11:14:58

Regarding the forum and the sitebar, the forum is a standard install and I don't really want to customise it just for the site. The gap between the forum and the menu bar is what would normally be the gap between the forum and the top of the page. If I start customizing it then it will be more difficult to keep it updated from svn.

Ophie · 2008-05-09 20:06:26

It's pretty awesome. What struck me is the simplicity, yet powerful design to it.

BRF · 2008-05-09 20:48:28

Front page, little spelling mistake:

please read the notes on the download page carefully if you are thinking of installing FluxBB v1.3.

Paul · 2008-05-09 20:58:30

BRF: Fixed, thanks.

Tjalve · 2008-05-09 21:07:33

Front page Latest news section isn't parsing bbcodes

Smartys · 2008-05-09 22:24:18

And Trac is updated (it looks slightly different in IE, but I don't think it matters at this point)

Jérémie · 2008-05-10 00:10:26

Paul wrote:

Regarding the forum and the sitebar, the forum is a standard install and I don't really want to customise it just for the site. The gap between the forum and the menu bar is what would normally be the gap between the forum and the top of the page. If I start customizing it then it will be more difficult to keep it updated from svn.

Then maybe it's something worth investigating... because there are a lot of external margins around the board, that's a lot of “wasted” screen space.

Viewing the forums on a EEEpc is a good example of this being an issue.

Maybe you could reduce those margins to 1em or something? Or maybe 1em 2em 2em 2em; for example.

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Paul · 2008-05-10 00:17:43

Actually this is all a matter of taste and mine happens to be for a lot of white space. The site is optomised for 960px width. I don't mind putting the board back to its original width but I won't change the site to match. Sorry.

I don't quite understand the gap between the sitebar and board point. Its only 20px.

I'm not averse to style switching though. No reason there couldn't be a small screen optomised style for the site and forum.

Jérémie · 2008-05-10 00:32:44

Paul wrote:

Actually this is all a matter of taste and mine happens to be for a lot of white space. The site is optomised for 960px width. I don't mind putting the board back to its original width but I won't change the site to match. Sorry.
I don't quite understand the gap between the sitebar and board point. Its only 20px.
I'm not averse to style switching though. No reason there couldn't be a small screen optomised style for the site and forum.

There's 63 pixels before Flux starts, and there's 313 pixels before the real content appear.

I do like too having some space, not be to cramped, but that's a lot of space, a lot of wait, between the real show starts.

Maybe you could consider moving the margins to %? So that big screens have a decent white space to ease the eyes, and small screens don't have too much non-content areas.

Note: the current style allow for 800px screen. It's height is a little too extensive for a small screen (like the 800×400 of an EEEpc), but that's more on the screen's side than on the style's side.
So it's not a real accessibility issue, but a small usability issue in my point of view.

Paul · 2008-05-10 00:59:49

Hadn't thought about make the top margin a percentage. I will take a look.

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