My history website

[the axe]

Hi guys!

As Patrick advised some time ago, I decided to post my history site for people to review!

I fell vicitm to the Freeola server crash about a month ago and, with Patrick's brilliant and vital help, I am slowly getting it back to how it used to be, although I'm stuck with how do complete the last few tweaks.

http://www.englistory.co.uk/

Any advice is grateful.

[~HG~]

That looks good.

I would like to see the background fixed though so the forum itself scrolls over the top of it and I dont know if you have tried to modify a prosilver version of it but I really think it would look good made on a prosilver based template.

The font size is huge and I personally would look to make it smaller. I am not sure what is causing that problem but it appears to also affect some images on the idex page, putting them "out of whack".

There are quite a few other little problems that I see that need to be fixed and the first is that forums are not accessible by permissions to guests and that is a turn off to people who may be interested in joining.

Still, the overall design concept is good and as I said, I would love to see it based on prosilver and with a fixed background.

Keep working on it and I am sure it will eventually turn out the way you envisage.
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[the axe]

Hi HG

Yes, many of the points you made I wanted to change, but lack the phpbb knowledge! Small steps at a time I think?

Thanks

[Patrick]

Hey all,

Good thoughts, ~HG~. One small thing you could do is change the font color of the Login, Register and FAQ links as they are hard to read over the background. Actually, the background itself is a bit of a challenge in this regard.

The Who is Online area appears to have something wrong as does the 24HOUR_STATS box at the bottom. Looks like some adjustments not yet finished or maybe not installed 100% correctly.

On the view forum page, the name of the forum is pressed right against the breadcrumbs at the top, so that may be something to look at - adding a space in there.

Just a couple of thoughts. I hope that this gives you a start. Best of luck with the site.

Thanks,

Patrick
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[the axe]

Thanks very much for both of your expert views and advice, guys.

I am, however, limited by my meagre phpbb knowledge as to how to achieve these objectives!

[Patrick]

Hey the axe,

Keep asking questions! That's the best way to learn. Ask, read and keep at it.

Patrick
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[the axe]

Hi Patrick and HG

Well I feel a little embarrassed by my amateur technical ability and constant asking of favours! Lol.

But yes, I agree, when I view my forum on my own PC the resolution seems ok, but on my girlfriend's PC it appears as HG said, out of whack!??

There are about a dozen things I'd like to change but, as the site has crashed twice during the last 5wks, I'm reticent to dare to alter the stylesheet much withut expert advice.

[terrano]

Think what you have come up with the axe is brilliant. Really like how you have changed the font on the index, each topic in red seems very effective to my eyes. The images as well. One of the best forums I have seen for "flow" - real nice feel to it.

The resolution does appear to be out, you could play around with your table width in overall header (think correct place to do the adjustment ?)
I'm a fan of the self adjusting width, new industry standard for forums is around 880 so mine was set up with accordance with this though.

The login, register could be shifted to sit in where the current time bar is, on the left, making use of the nice light background.
For the new posts, no new posts at the bottom incorporate into the log in bar at the bottom to take advantage of the light background or have a separate background/box.

Finally would use something like fast stone photo resizer and reduce the depth of your glorious header image for fast loading times and to give an overall balance visually with header and index. Perhaps center it or extend the width, adjusting your table width would also help in this area. Your site title would "Pop" more on the black background. The discussing history part on the "camouflage side".

[the axe]

Thanks Terrano!

I agree with all you say, plus the previous comments above, it's actually learning to do all of the many things without messing up! I do download my backups now, so will experiment.

I usually Googled the net to get where I have so far, but I'll also ask if I get stuck!

Thanks again.

[Patrick]