New Look MSE.com

southern_chick

Edinburghlass wrote: »

ah new colours, can I ask for a nice shade of PINK for mine please

the new site look sgreat, can't wait for it to go live.

i second Edinburghlass, please can we have a nice PINK and that will finish the site of nicely!!:rotfl:
Thank you

SC XX

OK_Sauce

Sid_Harper wrote: »

(with less graphics)

Surely that's fewer graphics?!:D

joe_poet

Excellent looking.
Both made & saved loads thanks to your site...

More power to you.

x

taxi73

It looks great!!

Spikeybabe

Hi Martin,

Would it be possible to the new site in Font Arial and also with the option to change the background color (mainly in the Forum) This would help alot with people who are Dyslexia ? I use the site alot and sometimes I just can't read it.

http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/extra352.html

12. Website design.

Web site design must consider all the above factors together with the following points.
Research shows that readers access text at a 25% slower rate on a computer. This should be taken into account when putting information on the web. When a website is completed, check the site and information for accessibility by carrying out these simple checks.


Navigation should be easy. A site map is essential.
Use graphics, images, and pictures to break up text, while bearing in mind that graphics and tables may take a long time to download.
Large graphics make pages harder to read.
Offer alternate download pages in a text reader friendly style.
Where possible design web pages which can be downloaded and read off-line.
Moving text creates problems for people with visual difficulties. It also creates a difficulty for text-reading software.
Contents links should show which pages have been accessed.
Most users prefer dark print on a pale background. Colour preferences vary.
Some websites offer a choice of background colours.
Encourage the use of hyperlinks at the end of sentences.
Avoid green and red/pink as these are difficult for colour-blind individuals.
Make sure that it is possible for users to set their own choice of
font style and size, and background and print colours.

southernscouser

MSE_Martin wrote: »

Les it depends on whether you mean the forum or the main site. The main site has no slowness and should always be zippy. We do experience slowness

a. On the checkers (because the same server is used for sending the weekly email and the checkers, yet this is changing so should improve)
b. The Forums. Simply due to the mass of people using it all accessing one database. We continue to tweak it and are working with the software authors to improve it; some big changes were made five days ago and it seems to have helped.

Martin

How do the thread subscription emails get sent out? Could this have anything to do with the slowness? I get loads everyday so if thousands of people are getting the same the site must be sending out hundreds of thousands a day?

I did ask this before but no-one replied. I didn't take it personally though.

southernscouser

withabix wrote: »

To be grammatically correct, there does.


Good looking pages by the way Martin

Doesn't!

Schools teach it without nowadays. So I'm led to believe.

Mr_Proctalgia

Are the colours of the tabs at the top going to be carried over into the articles to "theme" them?

Other than that much easier on the eye.

withabix

southernscouser wrote: »

Doesn't!

Schools teach it without nowadays. So I'm led to believe.

God help us!

Although that's probably just down to the quality of the teachers!

James240

looking good guys :beer: