Welcome back everyone, the site upgrade has so far been successful and we have brought it back online early! Hopefully you will all be able to have a good look round and get a feel for the new layout.
When you get to the Community home page you will notice the blue bar along the top, most categories on this have drop down menus which will lead you to the various forums and blogs related to the specific topics. All of the original content will still be accessible but you may notice a few things have been moved around and will look slightly different. We will be explaining these changes as we go over the next few days.
Feel free to post away and we hope that you will enjoy using the new site!
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Unknown said:Oh and I'm going to have to get out the old magnifying glass to see the avatars!!
Hi Jenni
I can't understand why they have to be so tiny either
Best wishes Chris
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Nice, but why have all the Reserve index pages crashed this morning?
Just a small point - anyone (like me!) who has the community pages stored in their favourites will be taken to the page that still says "closed for maintenance". Maybe worth changing those old pages to point people like me at the new version!
Woodpecker said: Oh and I'm going to have to get out the old magnifying glass to see the avatars!! Hi Jenni I can't understand why they have to be so tiny either [/quote] better than the magnifying glass - hit "ctrl" and "+" to increase the size ("ctrl" and "-" to go back)
Oh and I'm going to have to get out the old magnifying glass to see the avatars!!
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better than the magnifying glass - hit "ctrl" and "+" to increase the size ("ctrl" and "-" to go back)
Unknown said: Firstly, why, why oh why do we have to go American with the dates? Please can't we stick to DD.MM.YY? Secondly in scrolling through this incredibly long thread I found myself confused sometimes because people's "tags" - is that what they're called - the sentences that come up after each post - are the same size or bigger than the post that I started reading them rather than the post itself. There was something in the old layout that made the difference more obvious. Oh and I'm going to have to get out the old magnifying glass to see the avatars!!
Firstly, why, why oh why do we have to go American with the dates? Please can't we stick to DD.MM.YY?
Secondly in scrolling through this incredibly long thread I found myself confused sometimes because people's "tags" - is that what they're called - the sentences that come up after each post - are the same size or bigger than the post that I started reading them rather than the post itself. There was something in the old layout that made the difference more obvious.
I echo these comments. The American dates, the confusing format of the signatures and the tiny avatars are also my main grumbles.
Even my own signature was confusing me, so I changed it to italics.
Woodpecker's suggestion about increasing the size of the avatars (and text) is fine apart from the fact it causes the page to stretch and so involves scrolling sideways, which is even more annoying to me.
Also, I still haven't received any emails. Does this mean when this is put right I will get about 6 million backdated ones?
On a brighter note, I have now found my way round and located all the forums.
Cheers, Linda.
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Good morning everyone
I totally agree with the above comments and look forward to receiving millions of emails lol
i'm getting there gradually but it is very frustrating
Also it doesn't say how many posts people have made so its hard to welcome new people and all the good eggs have gone (not the people just the eggs lol)
kimbo
Feeling More Positive :-)
Interestingly there have been some congratulations from Group users. If you use this for Group entries it is a lot easier (I have tried it). It just seems that the community forum side is complicated by the fact that you are looking for entries alongside all the other bits that are input.
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Actually the avatars are large. It is just that the old ones were enormous. It should speed up the forum no end.
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Found the galleries - eventually but HOW do you add a photo. Or am I being obtuse
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I need a magnifying glass to see the text, never mind the avatars