New Software!

[Mephisto_kur]

As you may or may not have noticed, Heavybrick.com is running new software.  You wanna know the cool thing?  I had an integral part in its creation.  So did Mr Haase.  What does this mean to you?  Well, some of the new features that may perk your ears are:

Article Submission
News Submission
Links Submission.

Please.  Feel free to click the links on the right and give me a piece of your mind.  One of several of us will review it and either return it to you for changes, or post it to the front page!  

Make this place your home!  Any registered user can submit any of the above items.  As we get used to this, we'll come up with some less vagur guidelines.

There is only one issue I am looking to fix at this point.  If you are using IE at anything less than 1024x768, your right blocks may disappear.  Welcome to the world of IE web development bugs.  See, IE doesn't know how to do many things correctly, including the things that a browser by definition should be able to do.  Because of that, no matter how hard you try to get a webpage correct, sometimes IE just doesn't want to do the job.

If you are one of the poor unfortunates that runs at less than 1024x768, you may switch to the "Enigma" skin.  Admittedly, it is still ugly at that resolution, but at least you have your right blocks.  It is a more IE friendly theme.

If you are using a Mozilla based browser, or Opera, just chuckle to yourself and ignore all of this.

[WackyW]

Just to let you know,  while in the forum both left and right blocks are gone.  I could be wrong, but I do not remember the forum board being so wide.   But they are there on the home page.

Did you change the code for the member center?  My picture is gone.  No big deal,  but I thought I would let you know.  You, hasse CrazyC and Michele have worked very hard on this..........and for that I APPLAUD you all!!!!  

[WackyW]

Sorry if I just made an ass out of myself.........  
    but it just looks wider than it did before.

[Mephisto_kur]

It is wider.  The difference is that I am no longer using a second template.  The software lets me remove the blocks entirely.  The good thing about that is that images don't blow up the page layout like before, and the blocks are not an issue *ever* in thr forums.  The bad news is that it takes some getting used to after more than a year like it used to be.

As for the vatar in the member center, I'm woking on it.  The mod worked in alpha, but the newest version breaks it for some reason.

[KillJoy]

Wide is nice.  How many times must I re-assert this? hehehe
You just get more on the page when you're reading.  You don't need those blocks...

The "New Posts" button flashes, even when I'm caught up on everything apparently.

It seems very fast.  It looks like you used that sed script I suggested for cleaning up your code. HAHAHAHA!

[Mephisto_kur]

That new posts thing is just to tell lame asses what the piktars mean, you hilljack.

[KillJoy]

Oh...hehe.  Yeah that seems obvious NOW.  hehe.

[KillJoy]

For those of you looking for more information about the IE problems with standardization, look here:

http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5088642.html?tag=nefd_lede

"While it is true that our implementation is not fully, 100 percent W3C-compliant, our development investments are driven by our customer requirements and not necessarily by standards," said Greg Sullivan, a lead product manager with the Windows client group.

When it was pointed out that the most vocal critics of IE's CSS support are Web developers and authoring tool makers, rather than standards bodies, Sullivan said those critics were comparatively few.

"We balance feedback from all our customers and make our development decisions based on meeting the requirements of all of our customers, not just a few of them," Sullivan said.

So... until Joe Six-pack starts complaining that Heavybrick doesn't look right in IE, Microsoft will never fix the problems.  Joe Six-pack should install Mozilla Firebird and be done with it.

[Mephisto_kur]

I am going to switch to a new boardindex file.  (That is the page here that lists all the forums)  It is very important that you guys tell me *immediately* of any problems.  If there are none, I am going to push it to the CVS for the project that makes the software this site uses.

[KillJoy]

You're changing it to make it more presentable in the new "Bookmark Panel" under MozFire 0.7, right?

[Mephisto_kur]

Uh, no.  I'm getting rid of the incredible amount of nested tables.  Might speed it up a smidge for dial-up users.

[KillJoy]

hehe...  do we have dial-up users?

[Mephisto_kur]

Prolly not, but the old file was ugly and inefficient.  I can't *stand* that.  Punk.

[haase]

Um...  if you post this up, make sure that you've tested it will all the combinations of left-block, right-block, etc and make sure you've tested all the functions through out the forum please.

Oh...  and make sure you tell the dev team you're going to do this...

[Mephisto_kur]

Gee, thanks dad.  Its already been tested with many block configs.  I out it here so I can find out if anyone using IE5 has issues.  You know, I'm thinking about loading 2k on a machine and not moving to IE6.