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Messageboard format comments and test

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Messageboard format comments and test

Bill Houghton, sunny Turkey day in Sebastopol, CA

>I've got a 13-1/2" (diagonal measure) monitor - relatively small, I guess, but it's what came in the package I got. I'm noticing that (a) the whole index isn't visible (for instance, ad banners toward the top right of the screen are chopped off or, who knows, may be hidden, (b) when the messages display, if a subject or person's name/address runs longer than the space, it rather awkwardly runs onto the next line, and (c) when a message is displayed, the thread index at the bottom runs under the ads.

I encountered one glitch with a message from Dan Donaldson not showing the thread index below it (part of the messageboard format thread, titled "Re: Geez, that was fast!", with a Thursday, November 21, 2007, 6:01 p.m. date/time stamp (don't know if that time stamp is California time or forum time). I assume that's anomalous - haven't run into it anywhere else.

Given the rather tight constraints on messages, I'm wondering how photos will display, and am posting a test photo here, of the trim work on our kitchen remodel, done earlier this week. This is a 6" wide picture, close to my standard photo size (and under 40KB out of respect for those with dialup access).


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Photo

Bill Houghton, sunny Turkey day in Sebastopol, CA

>On my monitor, the photo barely fits. Any larger, and it would have run into ads.

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Testing another photo

Bill Houghton, sunny Turkey day in Sebastopol, CA

>This one's 8" wide.


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On my monitor, the right side of photo is covered

Bill Houghton, sunny Turkey day in Sebastopol, CA

>by ads.

I'm very sympathetic to the income flow problem; and a little guilty, because I haven't done much to offer economic support. The message display zone is pretty tightly constrained, though, between the ads and the directory at the left. Any possibility for a rearrangement that would offer more elbow room while meeting your other design needs?

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A liitle feedback, and a request

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>At home I have broadband and speed is not an issue.

When at work I am on dial up (this will hopefully change, but is a reality for the immediate future). The dial reads 50.6 kbps. The smallish images (<80 kb) load very fast. The screen on my Sony Vaio laptop is 13.3" and I get the lot - nothing is chopped off.

I was concerned that the multiple images on my articles might cause difficulties for some, so please let me know if they load slowly, or what. For the record here, I link them from Photobucket. Some are as small as 10 kb and most are around 35 kb in size. (Of course I can link any size I like, and many of the imagaes that come with my posts are about 80 kb).

Regards from Perth

Derek

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Dean Lapinel

>You may have to change your monitor resolution. I think this was designed for a width greater than what you have currently set. Many web pages are starting to be designed for monitors set greater than 800 wide.

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Jack Guzman from Maine

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Jack Guzman from Maine

>Bill you can set your monitor settings to where everything shows up on the page.The letters(and everything else)just get smaller.---Jack

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Does it make my eyes younger too?

Bill Houghton, leftover turkey yum! Sebastopol, CA

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ThomD

>I'm on slow dialup, which is why a place where you write is better than a place where I go from thing to thing like Youtube. I do wonder what happens to these kinds of places when we are all moving a lot faster.

I don't have a problem seeing the margins etc... with mine I can roll the mouse scroll while holding down CTRL, and the screen resizes, but as mentioned one needs to be able to see the results, which wasn't a problem until about 2 years ago. Mt screen diagonal is 16 inches, slightly less than 13 inches horizontal.

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Jack Guzman from Maine

you need a bigger monitor(I know I do)

Jack Guzman from Maine

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