Forum Appearance

[twopointnine]

Compared to other forums I follow, PistonHeads being one of them, the visual display of the Cayman Owners Club is not so good - white space and spacing between lines of text seems to be too much. I view the forums on a Windows 7 laptop using Firefox 44.0.2.

 

For instance when viewing the home page the top half of my screen is filled with the club banner etc and I can only see headings for Forum Announcements and Forum Feedback before having to scroll down to see the rest.

 

I tried the 'Edit Appearance' button but the changes I made didn't appear to take effect when I clicked save.

 

Is this a case of user error? Should there be something I can do to make the pages more compact so that I can see more on the screen?

 

Thanks.

A.

[Tom]

I'll take a look at this later, I can shrink the header a bit but not a great deal and certainly not enough to give you more real estate on screen.  

 

I may have another trick up my sleeve for you though, I'll report back later 

 

T

[Tom]

12 hours ago, twopointnine said:

Compared to other forums I follow, PistonHeads being one of them, the visual display of the Cayman Owners Club is not so good - white space and spacing between lines of text seems to be too much. I view the forums on a Windows 7 laptop using Firefox 44.0.2.

 

For instance when viewing the home page the top half of my screen is filled with the club banner etc and I can only see headings for Forum Announcements and Forum Feedback before having to scroll down to see the rest.

 

I tried the 'Edit Appearance' button but the changes I made didn't appear to take effect when I clicked save.

 

Is this a case of user error? Should there be something I can do to make the pages more compact so that I can see more on the screen?

 

Thanks.

A.

 

I've changed a couple of things.  

 

1) The header on the normal theme has ben shrunk, but as I said above, it can only be by about 70px, so it may not give you much more space.  So;

2) If you scroll down to the bottom of the page you will see 'Theme' - here you can select a different theme, try the standard theme and it should give you the plain vanilla layout of the forum software

 

Hope that helps? 

 

 

[twopointnine]

Hi Tom, thanks for that, the 'vanilla' theme does indeed improve things for me.

 

Now, how about some more basic emoticons such as smiley face, thumbs up, clapping, etc?

 

Thanks.

A.

[Uncle Dave]

They should already be there...although specifically clapping and thumbs up aren't, but we have darth vadar and spiderman!

 

[twopointnine]

Yes Uncle Dave you're right, and they range from to .

I suppose it's because I'm an oldie which was why I was looking for simpler more basic emoticons :-) , I'm not really sure when I should use some of the current ones and fear I could end up using an inappropriate emoticon and give the wrong impression .