The Reversioning Thread

[french frank]

I think I've managed to locate where the controls are to most items, and certainly to the sidebars on the Profile Page (PP) - which is the same style as the homepage (HP) sidebar. So now the questions:

People have said the forum is 'very red' and 'too pink' (on chromatic grounds alone - pink has never been everyone's favourite colour). The thing about red is that it's pale version is pink (a 'different' colour - blue, green and yellow, for example, just have darker and lighter versions).

Red was chosen to reflect the dominant colour of the old R3 MBs and I am rather wedded to this idea. I can reproduce that exact colour if it's thought preferable - it's slightly darker.

Now, I changed the sidebar to pink. The PP links were much clearer, but it was a sort of pale 'baby' pink. Darker could be 'too pink' again. One solution would be to make all the dark red rather more of an orangey-red, and I may be able to use a pale orangey/cinnamon shade for the sidebars.

What thoughts? - and if everyone disagrees, we can have a poll . The thing is, I think a slight change, at least, is necessary to correct the change in the PP sidebar which arrived with the upgrade. I can't see how that can be altered without altering the HP sidebar because they share a style.

[johnb]

Perhaps I am 'visually challanged' but the forum looks fine to me.

"Reversioning" ?!?!?!?!?!?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Well red always reminds me of A major.

"Reversioning"? FF - it sounds as though you've just been on a course .

[french frank]

"Reversioning" ?!?!?!?!?!?

Beebspeak

It's the PP sidebar that people complained of. The upgrade has introduced a lot more dark red which makes the links harder to see. A case of change one thing and and knock-on takes over.

[french frank]

Well, I hope someone is going give me some guidance - even if it's only to say, Don't bother doing anything. (Perhaps I can make the PP just a leetle bit paler?)

[Curalach]

For what it's worth ff I think you should just leave it as it is. Many people, including me, will be struggling to know what is different and it won't take long to get used to any changes that have occurred. You are doing a great job.
Iain

[Panjandrum]

Call me nostalgic if you like but I prefer the red of the old boards - less tiring on the eyes than this colour. Failing that, green is restful.

[vinteuil]

Well, I hope someone is going give me some guidance - even if it's only to say, Don't bother doing anything. (Perhaps I can make the PP just a leetle bit paler?)

the only thing that irks a bit is the intense red on the block on the left-hand side of the Profile pages, a red which makes the text written on it hard to read...

[Don Petter]

It all looks (and looked) fine to me, as far as the bits I regularly use.

The only one thing that I find annoying is that when you click on 'What's New', the page that comes up has something like 'Results 1 to 25 of 31' at the bottom which is in black on a red bar and almost impossible to read.

[Don Petter]

the only thing that irks a bit is the intense red on the block on the left-hand side of the Profile pages, a red which makes the text written on it hard to read...

Yes - I've just looked at my profile page for the first time in ages, and the text on the left such as 'Send Private Message' is in dark blue(?) on red and difficult to read.

[Russ]

Now, I changed the sidebar to pink.

The pink is present only as the initial colour of a rapid gradation to red, hence the difficulty in reading the links on that colour. Other links used on the same ground colour, e.g. on the front page sidebar, are contained within white ground boxes with a pale grey 1px surround. This styling will either be part of the CSS or it could be page-html. I'll try to get some screen shots to illustrate this, and the code will possibly render differently in different browsers, particularly if it uses some esoteric aspects of CSS3, not all of which is commonly supported.

Russ

[Russ]

Btw, if it's any consolation, the new R3 website looks like it will be retaining red as it predominant colour.

Russ

[Don Petter]

It all looks (and looked) fine to me, as far as the bits I regularly use.

The only one thing that I find annoying is that when you click on 'What's New', the page that comes up has something like 'Results 1 to 25 of 31' at the bottom which is in black on a red bar and almost impossible to read.

Thank you! It was like a breath of fresh air to see it clearly in white this morning.

[Roehre]

the only thing that irks a bit is the intense red on the block on the left-hand side of the Profile pages, a red which makes the text written on it hard to read...

and that's my only comment too.
The rest is fine with me

[hackneyvi]

Perhaps I am 'visually challanged' but the forum looks fine to me.

"Reversioning" ?!?!?!?!?!?

I agree with John about the forum looks. Very easy to read.

And ... Reversioning?

One thing,ff, I continue to get an irritating editing function of some sort. Quite commonly on the line below where I'm writing, the end section of text appears in duplicate. Initially, this posed me problems because when I used the back space key to delete it, both versions of the text disappeared and I could not relocate the cursor to put it before the duplicate version and use the delete button to get rid of it.

It's ok but I wish I knew why it was happening so that I could stop it. That auto save thing is still distracting me ever so often. I'd be glad if it didn't. Is there are option not to see it? What does it does it do anyway?