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Testing Testing - Ok so now here's our new look (but you don't have to have it, do you hear?)

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JustinExcelsisMumsnet · 19/12/2008 21:43

This is a sneak preview of our redesign - it's planned across the whole site but we thought we'd give you a preview of Talk so you could give us your thoughts. ETA is early in the new year (God willing).

Two things we should make clear:

First Customise talk and Mn Classic WILL STILL BE AVAILABLE so don't panic if you really hate it!

Second it's not finished yet so not everything works perfectly - it's a test site.

You might wonder why we are bothering with a redesign by the way. We have had quite a lot of feedback that newcomers find the site a little hard to find their way round at first so we are trying to simplify it. We haven't changed much overall in nine years but we've added quite a few bits and bobs on, and to newbies it can be quite daunting we think.

And one more thing - we've found in the past (and we know ourselves) that change can be disorienting but do give it a go for a wee while before you trash it completely, please? .

There's no link to it yet - YetMoreTech will post it in a minute - he wants to add more caveats before he posts it up!

Hope you like it (or at least don't loathe it) - let us know your thoughts.

(Please address all complaints to [email protected])

YetMoreTech · 21/12/2008 17:27

Attention blue bar haters...

Could you have a quick look now? Go to a thread - the blue bar introducing each post has gone, having been replaced by just a subtle grey background. Any good?

YetMoreTech · 21/12/2008 17:58

RustyBear, time off? haha

"will hide topics/threads still be an option and can i still read threads from bottom to top all in one page?"

Yes.

YetMoreTech · 22/12/2008 19:36

TheTwelveDAISYofChristmas (and others), I'm glad you like the blue bars changing to grey, though, they'll be changing again tomorrow! But still to a very subtle shade (sorry to the person whose name escapes me who wanted them in a darker colour!).

EffiePerine, we have tried quite hard to make things less busy. The trouble is, every single thing you remove is missed by someone, so we have to be really careful.

KKNN, don't worry too much about that thread you linked to. It was edited, as an experiment and, well, erm, some stuff happened that wouldn't happen if it was a real thread on the real server.

There will be a new iteration tomorrow and that should address various issues.

mumofmonsters, I was around for the last change. So yeah, I know the kind of shenanigans that goes on.

The update will not be timed to coincide with a new moon, but you never know...

YetMoreTech · 23/12/2008 01:14

"it SUCKS the sweat off a dead donkeys balls"

everGreensleeves, is that a good thing or a bad thing?

YetMoreTech · 23/12/2008 17:47

"But is/was the old site broken/ did it need fixing?"

Yep!

YetMoreTech · 23/12/2008 23:24

Littlefish, we know, honest. It's being worked on.

YetMoreTech · 24/12/2008 18:36

NannyNick, "Possible workaround for the IE problem:"...

I've not tried it (and trying to stay out of actually doing any actual proper work coding), but by the looks of it your suggestion would cause the message display to be constrained to that width, rather than stretching out underneath whatever is in the right hand column. The person concerned will be looking at this again soon. MN is all Mac these days, but we have a few Windows computers and some Parallels instances kicking around to test stuff out.

As for the table that doesn't need to be there, I suspect it's probably because the title is rendered as part of a loop, for use in situations where there are multiple titles. It makes for odd looking HTML when there is only one title, but more efficient in terms of code reuse. That could be nonsense though; it might just be left over from something old.

As to your question, on the new design the current intention is that the messages of a thread will fill the width of the page as far as the right edge of the right hand column. It's a contentious issue though and everybody has a differing opinion it seems.

Thanks for your input.

YetMoreTech · 31/12/2008 11:46

The reason he took off? hahah. We bought him the ticket.

BigTech · 06/01/2009 15:14

Testing removal of the Festive Smilies...

BigTech · 06/01/2009 15:38

and again...

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