New Site Design Bug List

Dagorlad · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2012 3:21 am

There will no doubt be bugs in the system, despite my best efforts at testing everything.

If you find one, please add it in a reply here.

I've already found one (a big one) in the Registration page.

Dagorlad · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:59 am

And that one is fixed now. Cool. So... any more?

Azog · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2012 1:15 pm

I thought the login header had brown text against a blue background.shouldn't it be white to make it stand out more like the other headers ?

Shieldmaiden · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:33 pm

The online/offline banner is off centre in forum threads like this one.

Azog · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:35 pm

... and the offline text looks a bit crowded between the second f and the l

We are pedantic devils aren't we ?

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2012 5:54 pm

It may only be happening to me but at the rating section at the bottom of the Fredegar Bolger article the icons/images for each rating are just showing up as the red X on white rectangle. All the images in the body of the article are fine.
It's great to see Dave's material again.

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:37 pm

Dorthonion wrote:

It may only be happening to me but at the rating section at the bottom of the Fredegar Bolger article the icons/images for each rating are just showing up as the red X on white rectangle. All the images in the body of the article are fine.
It's great to see Dave's material again.

I am finding this too, on all the articles not just the bolger one

Ukfreddybear · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:45 pm

To expand on that, the rating system in general appears to be disabled. Nothing happens when you click on any of the ratings buttons.

Dagorlad · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:50 pm

Yep, the rating system doesn't seem to work at all. I'll take a look at it (never like the idea of rating articles much to be honest).

Thanks for finding these, keep looking - there will surely be more.

SouthernDunedain · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 6:29 am

Not sure whether it is a bug but it keeps loggin me out even though I tell it to log me on automatically.

Dagorlad · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:54 am

Ok, the rating system is now working and I've fixed the irritating colour on the heading of the Login Box on the Home Page. I am not happy with the 'Online' and 'Offline' images and will redesign them when I do the new Rank images. But in the meantime, I'll centre them.

SD - that is probably a setting on your browser to allow cookies for this website. The way this works for the site hasn't changed at all so it's not something to do with the new site I believe.

Telchar · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 5:53 pm

I am already in contact with DMS on this, but I'll mention it here as well.

When I log in, go to the board index page, which works fine. However, if I then select a forum (for instance "News and Rumours"), I get a page which lists the names of all the fora in horizontal lines across my screen (still in the new design), with a small button reading "go" in the middle. Nothing happens if I click either this or the fora names.

Dagorlad · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:17 pm

I've sent you a PM Telchar, asking for further information about your browser version.

But you can alsways set the style back to 'Prosilver' in your user preferences without losing any of the site's functionality.

Captain Ingold · **Posted:** Sat Oct 13, 2012 6:34 pm

"sambuca" doesn't appear to be censored anymore. I can only assume this is an oversight, and that you will now rush hastily - in clear contradiction of Treebeard's philosophy - to amend this error.

Well, actually, I do want it censored, if only because it was the most entertaining feature of the old chat box.

Fëanor, the mighty elf · **Posted:** Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:26 pm

When going to your personal gallery, the Upload button's picture is not showing. I don't know if it's just me though.
I took a screen shot, just to make sure you understand what I mean.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:36 pm

@Feanor, the mighty elf - Hmm same for me too

Dagorlad · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:51 am

fixed, thanks

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2012 7:54 pm

Quendil wrote:

It does look better but it seems to be very slow. I have reverted back to the old style which is a little faster. I have not noticed any other websites slowing down just this one :sad:

i am finding this a bit too. Especially while i amwriteing a post, all the smileys freeze up a bit.

also:

all of the icons are gone :roll:

or is that just my computer being daft?

Dagorlad · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:54 pm

The slow down is due to the much heavier use of graphics that the old blue site. It's inevitable unfortunately, the prettier the site, the slower it loads especially over slow internet connections.

I did expect this though and was planning on revisiting each the graphics to try to optimise their size as much as is practicable - especially these new rank icons, they are quite large compared to the old images.

Shieldmaiden · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2012 9:55 pm

It could be any number of things - what web browsers people are using, and how often they clear out their cache and temporary internet files.

It runs fine for me, and I have a less than 1mbps connection.

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