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I like the site redesign in general, but am not a fan of this icon
XcsWH.jpg

I think it looks like a radiator starting leaking oil and caught fire. Any chance we can get it changed to, well, nearly anything else? How about an octopus?
 
I prefer serif fonts for things like news articles as opposed to sans-serif for forum posts, and I'm prejudiced against Arial due in part to its sordid origins. Some elements use Trebuchet MS too. I'd suggest unifying the design with a single, multi-purpose sans-serif font.

itt red omen is a typeface snob

I don't really like the bomb icons either, although sometimes the white speech bubbles with a head-and-shoulders icon inside show up instead. I prefer those, since their meaning is a bit clearer. I can make others if you'd like.

Other than this nit-picking, this is a great redesign. Love it.
 
Diremongoose said:
I like the site redesign in general, but am not a fan of this icon
XcsWH.jpg

I think it looks like a radiator starting leaking oil and caught fire. Any chance we can get it changed to, well, nearly anything else? How about an octopus?
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I didnt dig it either. I just clicked the "Mark Forums Read" button at the top and it was solved. I think anything octopus related would be awesome tho. That...or kittens. <3 Kittens
 
Red Omen said:
Totally didn't see this thread.

In the thread I made, I recommend changing the font to Open Sans since I have kind of a hard-on for it right now. I prefer serif fonts for things like news articles as opposed to sans-serif for forum posts, and I'm prejudiced against Arial due in part to its sordid origins. Some elements use Trebuchet MS too. I'd suggest unifying the design with a single, multi-purpose sans-serif font.

itt red omen is a typeface snob

I don't really like the bomb icons either, although sometimes the white speech bubbles with a head-and-shoulders icon inside show up instead. I prefer those, since their meaning is a bit clearer. I can make others if you'd like.

Other than this nit-picking, this is a great redesign. Love it.
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YES PLEASE make new icons for read unread and links! I just put the faces for temp.

Here is the PNG that needs to be modified:
YRifp.png


Def not octopuses something stream lined and easy to understand please :)

Or the obvious choice of :eek:mg: for unread lol
 
Red Omen said:
... is really, really cool. I like it a lot. Thanks for implementing it!

For anyone who's interested, I changed the font to Open Sans and tweaked link appearance in Stylish for my own nefarious purposes.
Code: 
@-moz-document domain("alttabme.com") {
body,
body.mceforcecolors,
.sidebar,
.message .messageText,
.message .signature,
.bbCodeBlock .type {
  font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif !important;
}
 
.navTabs,
.node .nodeTitle,
.sidebar .visitorPanel .username,
.discussionListItems .unread .title a,
.sidebar .visitorPanel .stats dd,
.newsDate,
.sidebar .section .primaryContent h3,
.sidebar .section .secondaryContent h3,
.profilePage .mast .section.infoBlock h3,
span.channel-subline-unlocked,
.sidebar .section .primaryContent h3 a,
.sidebar .section .secondaryContent h3 a,
.discussionListItem .stats .major,
.discussionListItem .title,
.discussionListItem .lastPostInfo .username,
.titleBar h1,
h3.userText a {
  font-family: "Open Sans Semibold", sans-serif !important;
}
 
 
.message .messageText a,
.message .messageText a:visited,
.message .signature a,
.message .signature a:visited {
  font-family: "Open Sans Semibold", sans-serif !important;
  color: #c41514 !important;
}
 
.message .messageText a:hover,
.message .messageText a:active,
.message .signature a:hover,
.message .signature a:active {
  color: #ed2c2c !important;
}
 
a {
  text-decoration: none !important;
}
}

Tristan, if you want to make this part of the CSS, stick the code below in the header. Your call. Everyone else just needs Stylish and Open Sans installed.
HTML: 
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400italic,600italic,400,600' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

One thing: Do you want me to make some custom smilies to replace the blue ones we used to have? Maybe simple and minimalist red, white, and black (or replacing red with a different color for each emotion, since I know you'll want a pink one)? Or making them all look like octopuses (more difficult)?
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BTW I think the reason it looks different is because Chrome and Firefox are using different fonts. I am working on that. Chrome being my choice browser.

Yup confirmed FireFox for some odd reason is using different weight and fonts. Funny thing is the font I use on Chrome is almost identical with more weight to the one you wanted it to be haha


UPDATE:
Ok with some tom foolery Firefox now uses the proper font that is used in Chrome.

So check it out before you go ahead and change everything lol.


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Ok just realized that when you post a link its the same color or close to the same color as the text. Can we get it back to red or maybe blue?
 
ThatOneGuy said:
Ok just realized that when you post a link its the same color or close to the same color as the text. Can we get it back to red or maybe blue?
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Still working on this fix. It is supposed to be red like it was before there is an overriding css field somewhere that I have been trying to find to change it.
 
tr1age said:
Still working on this fix. It is supposed to be red like it was before there is an overriding css field somewhere that I have been trying to find to change it.
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All fixed

Nevermind Broken again.. arggg

YAY FIXED AGAIN! KBambz helped :) aka did it!
 
I like the updated read/unread icons. Font changes are nice (yay san-serif), but it seems that the only place that the Georgia font is being used is once you get into the actual thread. Intentional?

edit: argh. actually, I see times new roman being used as well (ugh!) like in menus and on the profile page. The following fonts appear to be used on the site, and clash a bit, imho:

droid-dans
arial
georgia
times new roman
trebuchet-MS
again, I'm a font-snob, so disregard if this isn't important to anyone else. :)
 
hehe was about to ask you to make a "back to top" button at the bottom of the page. looked down, suddnetly saw the "top" thingie. Very nice, don't know if it is was always there, but I like it :)
 
Nahku said:
I like the updated read/unread icons. Font changes are nice (yay san-serif), but it seems that the only place that the Georgia font is being used is once you get into the actual thread. Intentional?

edit: argh. actually, I see times new roman being used as well (ugh!) like in menus and on the profile page. The following fonts appear to be used on the site, and clash a bit, imho:

droid-dans
arial
georgia
times new roman
trebuchet-MS
again, I'm a font-snob, so disregard if this isn't important to anyone else. :)
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Can you tell me the EXACT places that Times is being used still.

Georgia font is known for being the easiest font to read so I kept it in threads if you can post pictures of a font that looks better I am game.

The fonts as they are written right now are not all 100% accurate as I have had to change CSS and there may be left over bs needed to clean.
 
tr1age said:
Can you tell me the EXACT places that Times is being used still.

Georgia font is known for being the easiest font to read so I kept it in threads if you can post pictures of a font that looks better I am game.

The fonts as they are written right now are not all 100% accurate as I have had to change CSS and there may be left over bs needed to clean.
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Places I see it off the top of my head:

-Each individual post: our forum names, and all the info below it (like "guild member" and message count).
-The "X minutes ago" timestamp under each post.
-The entire profile page (http://alttabme.com/forum/index.php?members/nahku.457/)
-The drop-downs on the site (like when you mouse-over our user name in the top navigation)
-Pagination text/numbers

Essentially, since your CSS is as follows, you're going to see Times New Roman anywhere you don't explicitely declare a font:
Code: 
body {
font-family: 'Times New Roman',Serif,Puritan, 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;

And I agree, Georgia is definitely one of my fav serif fonts. It just seemed a bit odd (to me) to have everything san-serif, and then use Georgia in the forum posts themselves. It can work though.

edit: updated with CSS. If you change that to default to Georgia (or whatever font), at the body level, you'll remove all the TNR.
 
Nahku said:
Essentially, since your CSS is as follows, you're going to see Times New Roman anywhere you don't explicitely declare a font:
Code: 
body {
font-family: 'Times New Roman',Serif,Puritan, 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
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I wish that were the case. It actually is a little more stupid than that :) But thanks I will put this on the to do list to clean up remaining fonts.
 
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