Questions and comments about the new look to the forum.

[ronstew]

There is one criteria by which the design is failing in my opinion, however. You might call it the "relevancy factor".

When I click on a post, I want to see that post. That is what I clicked on the link for. I don't want to see anything else. So, an important measure is how much of the (vertical) area of the screen is dedicated to the information I wanted to look at (the post), and how much dedicated to stuff I did not want to look at (adverts, titles, logos, padding, etc).

At the moment, on my laptop, when I click on link to look at a post I see precisely nothing of the post itself. I have to scroll up one entire screen to start reading it. You might say the design currently results in a relevancy factor of 0%.

Mike went on to say some nice stuff - it wasn't a slag. His whole post (# 15 in this thread) is here

But the situation he described is actually worse now than when he wrote it on March 8. A second row of banner ads has appeared, pushing content further down the page. This is mitigated somewhat by the slightly smaller header photo.

I don't love it, but I can live with it. Advertising pays for this site. I did want to mention it, though. I hope that it does not get worse.

[morrison]

Thanx fer the tartan!

I do indeed like the outlining tartan. I makes me feel all. . .

pleated-like? Wrapped in a comfortable, inviting surrounding.