Comments on new SMF theme

[Orien Wu]

I really like this theme. Looks a lot more modern.

[Roph]

So far I like it, though I'll wait till you guys are done with it =D

I'll agree on the squareness thing. I have to say I'm in love with what phpBB have done to their site's theme.

One thing I guess I don't like is that the postbit area still has next to no organisation; the avatar and all the info just seem to look like they've been thrown over there. example 

Still, hoping this is included in the next SMF distro.

[Col]

I had to switch back to the old theme in my profile. The new theme was truncating the text at the right side of my screen while reading posts. Using IE-6. Makes no difference whether small window, or max.

Rich

Just confirming this, also with IE6.

[Col]

Another bug - bullet points no longer appear in my signature.

[metallica48423]

they appear to be there to me.

[Chris™]

Looks awesome!

[SleePy]

Thanks for your comments. Most of them the team has commented on the stuff you are noticing as well and this is the early stage of development for it. So your feedback is great to let us know how to change it.

In my opinion I think it is a little to much compacted. And a few things don't fit right in FireFox but that is a known bug.
This post box has gotten smaller while the post buttons gotten bigger 

[青山 素子]

It is being worked on. The great thing about putting a new theme up is all the helpful feedback that serves to improve things.

If you notice any other quirks, go ahead and post them please.

[anunlike]

I don't know if this a real bug or not, but I noticed that the on the full page compose screen, the "Topic Summary" area isn't centered like it used to be.

I also think it's "too square".

[SleePy]

If you are using Firefox this is known. Firefox isn't liking some of the CSS used and suggestions have already been made how to go about fixing it without to much changes.
If it isn't with Firefox let us know your browser. Things will appear different on different browsers so that input lets us know how to direct changes to work correctly for and hopefully not break other browsers.

[anunlike]

If you are using Firefox this is known. Firefox isn't liking some of the CSS used and suggestions have already been made how to go about fixing it without to much changes.

Yep, it's with Firefox. Thanks.

[charlottezweb]

Thumbs up from me.  I think it's an improvement from the past.  Not to knock on the older theme but it doesn't hurt to shake things up every several years.  This version looks more clean and organized to me than the past.

Great job!  Looking forward to seeing the tweaks/fixes. 

[Rudolf]

Here's a thing I don't like. The top info box is just too big and it's an utter waste of space if you look at what it shows. I use a 19"(home) and a 17"(work) monitors both at 1280x1024 resolution, and the forum "header" occupies almost half of my monitor when the top info box is expanded. Then it struck me the thought of how it could be on a smaller (the standard 1024x768) resolution. Well, I can say that it takes up more then a half of my monitor. On the main index I can barely see the first three boards. And that's with firefox being highly optimized for screen real-state. I have verything crammed up on one toolbar on the top of the window and on the bottom the tabbar and the statusbar.

If there is something I actually hate in a website is to have to scroll to actually see some content. For now I have that part shrink permanently because it's just so stupid to have it there wasting space. Please optimize it, compact it but do something. And who the heck cares what is my god damn IP, or when I visited last time, or how much I spent online? Is it really necessary to show it on every page?! Gosh, put it in the profile summary, if I want to know I'll go and check. So that "User" block sucks and is totally useless. It was before and it is now, only that now you added extra useless information.

The "News" block is plain boring. It almost never filled up with text so it's simply a waste of space.

And the "Search" box? You must be kidding me!! Half of the box is empty!! Blank. Void. Just one big blue nothing. I see one huge word saying "Search" with a text box below then a button that says "Search" then a magnifying glass? It's even clickable. That's a joke, right? You put it there for those who can't read?! I see "Search" written two times..., ok, ok I understood, what it does. It will search. Please remove that magnifying glass from there. It's ugly and it's offending. You can't even say that it's for accessibility purposes. It's 4 times smaller then the button, and those who can't read the text surely won't be able to distinguish it as a "magnifying glass".
Actually this part has the only aesthetical improvement on the site until now. The textbox blends quite nice in the background with it's dark outline, and it gets a nice orange outline highlighting it. That's in Firefox, because Internet Explorer puts a dark blue outline around the "Search" button when I enter the text box. Luckily for me I don't use IE.

As a last complaint about this section is that I see one huge blank space after the search block there is another empty block doing nothing. And between all this and the menu there is a 1+ cm horizontal empty blue space.

I make screenshots if you want. This thing is just terrible.

PS: please consider making the over size of the text one size smaller. Or give some option where I can choose mine. I have to shrink the text every time I open the site.

[metallica48423]

Another odd quirk i'm getting -- and this is just to report this -- Sometimes when i post it tells me that i've hit the post limit that i have to wait 10 seconds to post again..

Now, i know i post a lot, but not that fast , something is up with the timing script for this function.  I dont think this is a theme thing but it seems to have happened since the upgrade last night.

Other than that... i'm loving it

[Col]

I noticed an oddity with with a function too - after my my first post to this thread, I clicked 'show new replies to your post', and said post and this thread were listed - I was still the last poster. Maybe the server had a fart, but I mention it just in case.

[littleone]

It looks pretty good.  I especially like the appearance of the lighter blue colors.  I might snag them and use them in my default theme.  The dark colors just kinda glum things down a bit so this is refreshing and upbeat.  Only major thing I have noticed as others are saying is the text seems to run under the right side and gets cut.

[Col]

A small bug.

For some reason, in IE6, the arrow does not change when toggling the upshrinker. Hard refreshes didn't fix it either.

[littleone]

I just noticed this and havent seen it mentioned in this thread....

When you go to the index page, where the calendar is.  It says Calendar and then there is a giant gray area before all the birthdays are listed.

[GC]

Did a grandparent create this?

[TheGamer]

The green-yellow text (which I think looks stupid) used in catbg areas is a little too large for my liking.

I don't care for the vivid "cyan" color used in some areas.

There's too much space below the SMF logo at the top of the screen. You should try shifting the menu to the left or something.

New post / no new post icons need work - newposts2.gif is non-existant. (or at least not updated)

I assume this change was the result of phpBB's recent entrance to the Web 2.0 world.