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John Sanford
02-21-2003, 5:05 PM
At the bottom right corner of the page are the links to each page, the next page, and the last page. (You can also go backward if you're on any page other than the first.)

It would be a fair bit easier if a) the pagination links were separated a little more, and b) the Next/Previous page links were LARGER. I like to save my precision mouse work for games... ;)

Oh, and I'd suggest doing something to increase the contrast between the slide bars and the slide "channels". A dark blue slide bar in a medium blue channel isn't as friendly as the higher contrast Windows standard schema.

Respectfully,

John, aka "professional nitpicker"

John M. Cioffi
02-22-2003, 12:39 PM
That's true,John about the side bar.
Maybe a straight-grained strip of OAK would look nice,'ey?

If I were Ken,(The Graphics King), I could put a pic of it there.

Aaron Koehl
02-22-2003, 2:06 PM
John,

Thanks for all of the great suggestions!
We will be redesigning the graphical look/colors
of the board over the next few weeks, most likely
to a higher contrast design. This will also require
changing a lot of the graphics on the board to suit
the new color scheme.

In the meantime, if you find that the text is too small, most
browsers have the option of increasing the text size. This
will make navigating those smaller text links a bit easier.
In Internet Explorer, the option is under the View->Text Size
menu. It usually defaults to 'Medium'.

Thanks again,

- Aaron

John Sanford
02-24-2003, 4:40 PM
Originally posted by Aaron Koehl
John,

Thanks for all of the great suggestions!
We will be redesigning the graphical look/colors
of the board over the next few weeks, most likely
to a higher contrast design. This will also require
changing a lot of the graphics on the board to suit
the new color scheme.

In the meantime, if you find that the text is too small, most
browsers have the option of increasing the text size. This
will make navigating those smaller text links a bit easier.
In Internet Explorer, the option is under the View->Text Size
menu. It usually defaults to 'Medium'.

Thanks again,

- Aaron

Aaron, you misunderstand. I'm a programmer by trade, so I DO know how to change the text size. What I'm saying is the font of the page navigation objects is too small in relation to the other page elements and they are too close together. I set my screen size and text size so that the forum messages are the "right size" for me to read. The solution you propose is unworkable because it would result in the meat of the page being too large.

Now, IF modifying the pagination elements is impractical, que sera sera. I just wanted to clarify the nature of my concern.

Aaron Koehl
02-24-2003, 5:40 PM
I agree that larger Next and Prev thread text links
are less cumbersome. They've been modified to
suit.

_Aaron_