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Tim..on Firefox the sizes are all wrong for me. This shows up especially in the bottom middle where the formatting seems to be off and all the boxes seem to be squeezed too tight (for example, the e-mail adresses go to about northsidebase and then stop, and the article section has the recent article titles underneath the article authors because there isn't room to display it horizontally). That's because the page seems to be zoomed in too much while on Explorer it looks fantastic. Is there just something with my computer that is causing these formatting issues or is it an issue with the Firefox page itself?

FF is my primary browser and I'm not seeing anything like that. Is anyone else having a similar issue?

 

Hmm. That is strange. I just tried also to click to view 5 Internet articles on the front page, and the writing only allows me to see appox half of 1 letter on each line. The rest of it is just blank white space. I switched the engine to explorer and it showed just fine once again.

 

Update: I just tried it on my upstairs computer. It works just fine on firefox. I tried disabling all my addons on the laptop to see if that was the problem, but it wasn't. So I guess my best guess now is that it has something to with Vista? (my laptop runs Vista but my desktop runs XP). It doesn't seem like it would be that, but I don't really know any other significant differences between the two.

[Roast]

Tim..on Firefox the sizes are all wrong for me. This shows up especially in the bottom middle where the formatting seems to be off and all the boxes seem to be squeezed too tight (for example, the e-mail adresses go to about northsidebase and then stop, and the article section has the recent article titles underneath the article authors because there isn't room to display it horizontally). That's because the page seems to be zoomed in too much while on Explorer it looks fantastic. Is there just something with my computer that is causing these formatting issues or is it an issue with the Firefox page itself?

FF is my primary browser and I'm not seeing anything like that. Is anyone else having a similar issue?

 

Hmm. That is strange. I just tried also to click to view 5 Internet articles on the front page, and the writing only allows me to see appox half of 1 letter on each line. The rest of it is just blank white space. I switched the engine to explorer and it showed just fine once again.

 

Update: I just tried it on my upstairs computer. It works just fine on firefox. I tried disabling all my addons on the laptop to see if that was the problem, but it wasn't. So I guess my best guess now is that it has something to with Vista? (my laptop runs Vista but my desktop runs XP). It doesn't seem like it would be that, but I don't really know any other significant differences between the two.

I have vista and use firefox and I have no problem.

[CubColtPacer]

Tim..on Firefox the sizes are all wrong for me. This shows up especially in the bottom middle where the formatting seems to be off and all the boxes seem to be squeezed too tight (for example, the e-mail adresses go to about northsidebase and then stop, and the article section has the recent article titles underneath the article authors because there isn't room to display it horizontally). That's because the page seems to be zoomed in too much while on Explorer it looks fantastic. Is there just something with my computer that is causing these formatting issues or is it an issue with the Firefox page itself?

FF is my primary browser and I'm not seeing anything like that. Is anyone else having a similar issue?

 

Hmm. That is strange. I just tried also to click to view 5 Internet articles on the front page, and the writing only allows me to see appox half of 1 letter on each line. The rest of it is just blank white space. I switched the engine to explorer and it showed just fine once again.

 

Update: I just tried it on my upstairs computer. It works just fine on firefox. I tried disabling all my addons on the laptop to see if that was the problem, but it wasn't. So I guess my best guess now is that it has something to with Vista? (my laptop runs Vista but my desktop runs XP). It doesn't seem like it would be that, but I don't really know any other significant differences between the two.

I have vista and use firefox and I have no problem.

 

Thanks. I guess I'll just deal with it then. That is really perplexing that it is just the combination of my computer and that 1 page. You would think either more computers would be affected or more web sites would look strange on this computer.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Yesterday I was having a similar circumstance to what CCP described. But it went away; through no action of mine. (I also have Vista & Firefox)

[Deeg]

Looks good, Tim - concise and readable (and fine on my Firefox/Vista system).

[cubfan1955]

Just wondering why the menu on the front page is not on every page for site consistency? Then the front page or the forum would only be one click away from everywhere.

 

But the site looks great none the less.

[Guest]

Just wondering why the menu on the front page is not on every page for site consistency? Then the front page or the forum would only be one click away from everywhere.

 

But the site looks great none the less.

I will be working on that integration long term. There's actually two different packages I'm using for the forum vs the rest of the site, so it isn't straightforward to have the same menus & look and feel everywhere. I'll get there, but the day job & family are pretty consuming at the moment.

 

The good news is that I finally got the robot registrations tackled over the weekend, so I can shift my focus to other site issues now.

[cubfan1955]

Just wondering why the menu on the front page is not on every page for site consistency? Then the front page or the forum would only be one click away from everywhere.

 

But the site looks great none the less.

I will be working on that integration long term. There's actually two different packages I'm using for the forum vs the rest of the site, so it isn't straightforward to have the same menus & look and feel everywhere. I'll get there, but the day job & family are pretty consuming at the moment.

 

The good news is that I finally got the robot registrations tackled over the weekend, so I can shift my focus to other site issues now.

 

Are you using a bridge to integrate phpbb with Joomla? I ask because my forum login does not work on the front page and ideally they would both get the user data from the same database so users don't have two separate logins for your site. Understood about the time constraints though. And again, the site is looking great.