Check out the new look of the profile pages! [vanity]

FR's Tech Gurus ^ | 4/11/03 | Me

[Constitution Day]

I clicked on someone's profile this morning, and noticed that John Robinson has updated their format.
I like it! Great job!

That is all. Please return to your regularly scheduled Freeping.

CD

[John Robinson]

If the hover info does come back it will be much better. The previous behavior was an unintended side-effect that I would have to reimplement, and why display a signup number when I could just as easily display the signup date?

[CyberCowboy777]

I like the contrast myself – it has style.

But then again – I have a sign on date of Nov. 2000 and a member number in the 46,000 ranges I think.

[CFC__VRWC]

John, did you increase the font size for the top banner? It looks much better now. If you want my 2 cents worth, if you kept the background color for the banner and changed the font color to black or even white, it would further improve the readability. JMHO.

[TLBSHOW]

I just found out about this. Great new look, not that the old look wasn't great. :>)

[deadhead]

I love the new look of the profile page. Thank You for all the work you do to make this the best site in the world :-)

[John Robinson]

Mama_Bear sent me a screen capture of her menu bar, she couldn't set that font, and it was using the .8em I coded, and it was illegible. Shrug. I changed it to font-size: small and we'll see who that messes up.

Judging by the number of professionally designed websites that use pixel sizes rather than em sizes, and our problems today, I'm going to have to guess that em size units are broken. If that's true, it really is sad; screen-independent design needs a scalable font. I usually get eyestrain trying to read pixel-sized websites, they never look right on my setups.

[SerpentDove]

I like the sign-on date. Groovy!

[rwfromkansas]

Wow...impressive.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Wouldn't this indicate that it is something peculiar to my computer settings or my browser settings that is causing this. Any ideas what that could be?

Yes. If you are using Windows and Internet Explorer and you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, go to your profile page and then hold down the "Ctrl" key while scrolling the wheel one click at a time. This should raise and lower the font size. If you don't have a scroll mouse, go to the menu bar at the top of the browser and click on "view" then "Text size" then select a larger font size.

That orta do it.

[AntiGuv]

;^)

[rwfromkansas]

I almost had a heart attack when I thought my links where gone though...I was like "oh no!!!"

[CyberCowboy777]

I am guessing that there are issues with the em size units in browser versions......

You still have options though so no matter - except the hassel! ;~/

font-size: 12pt

font-size: 20px

font-size: small/large....

[rwfromkansas]

That is absolutely hilarious.....:)

[rwfromkansas]

Download IE. Much better than Netscape IMO despite the hype. For one thing, I don't have to wait around 100 years while it says "Java loading" and crap like that.

[John Robinson]

Oops, I meant point sizes, not pixel sizes. It's probably little difference anyway, they're both absolute measurements.

I could use percentage sizes too.

[smith288]

Out of curiosity, whats up with using purple all the time?

[rwfromkansas]

Wow...like your posting tool.

[Exit148]

"-----why display a signup number when I could just as easily display the signup date?"

I find the signup number interesting in what it actually tells -- the number of people who have registered over the life of FR.com. You can't get that from a signup date.

Also, the instant 'hover' gives me instant information without having to make the extra step of going to the home page of the person.

When a newbie comes on, and is unfairly attacked, there seem to be as many or more in the thread, who defend the newbie, as those who attack.

[John Robinson]

This is California afterall, you're lucky it's not rainbow. Seriously, it's supposed to be blue. It has an equal part of red and green and enough blue to be blue (real men think hex.) I guess I'll have to remove some red, it must be overpowering the green. But it doesn't look purple to me. Maybe my bloodshot eyes are filtering out some of that red? Hm.

[John Robinson]

Yeah, it's pretty cool. He's been bugging me for months to install it on Free Republic. (No, truthfully he HASN'T been bugging me for months to install it, that's why it's been months.)