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Re: Change in LUGNET news appearance
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Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:06:38 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Gereon Stein wrote:
  
I have received the same suggestion from other users as well - I will make the box above the “Active threads” display somewhat smaller to reduce scrolling.

Where there are no active threads to display, a vertical banner is inserted. In those cases, scrolling will not be an issue anyway, I guess.

I am testing everything in parallel using other browsers, so if you encounter something that irritates you, please let me know your browser version and operating system.


I’m happy to be helpful. The Google ads aren’t irritating at all (they have a very good ads system) but it is important to don’t make the whole webpage annoying (a bad layout makes it non user-friendly).

Anyway, here you can see how I see the Lugnet page of the ItLUG newsgroup:



My OS is Windows XP (service pack 2) with Firefox 2.0 and a display resolution of 1280x1024. Instead the 300x300 box, I would put a small banner (234x60 or 486x60 pixel... yea, I use Google ads too).

Bye Luca



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  Re: Change in LUGNET news appearance
 
Luca, thanks for the screenshot - this really helps me evaluate where I could optimize the layout to maintain user-friendliness. I will try some changes later today and see what will happen. I think especially changing the size of the 300*300 box (...) (17 years ago, 16-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)

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(...) Hi Luca, I have received the same suggestion from other users as well - I will make the box above the "Active threads" display somewhat smaller to reduce scrolling. Where there are no active threads to display, a vertical banner is inserted. (...) (17 years ago, 15-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)

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