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Lawrence

Lawrence

Founder
Staff member
Thanks!

Please be patient with us as we do our new and improved EO rollout - we are aware of several bugs and will making corrections and modifications through out the day (and night).

Lawrence,
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greg334

greg334

Veteran Expediter
Great changes

I have two suggestions

1 - Put the forum link on the tabs on the header

And

2 - It would be great to have both the layover guide and truck stop guide in a downloadable form (PDF or Doc file) so some of us can down load it and use it while we have no internet connection.
 
Lawrence

Lawrence

Founder
Staff member
No, the Forum Links will be fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Lawrence,
Expediters Online.com


Sacred cows make the best burgers

"So tell me, are those cookies made with real Girl Scouts?"

Sometimes the squeaky wheel doesn't get the grease, it just gets replaced

You can't tell a book by its movie



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greg334

greg334

Veteran Expediter
>No, the Forum Links will be fixed. Sorry for the
>inconvenience.
>
>Lawrence,
>Expediters Online.com
>
>
>Sacred cows make the best burgers
>
>"So tell me, are those cookies made with real Girl
>Scouts?"
>
> Sometimes the squeaky wheel doesn't get the grease, it
>just gets replaced
>
> You can't tell a book by its movie
>
>
>
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>Thanks For Visiting EO!
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>http://www.expeditersonline.com/hotnews/sterling_eo_forum.jpg
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Thanks, Wow you need to work on the margins, for me they are kinda off

What software are you workig with?
 
Lawrence

Lawrence

Founder
Staff member
Greg,

Are you using Firefox or IE?

Lawrence,
Expediters Online.com


Sacred cows make the best burgers

"So tell me, are those cookies made with real Girl Scouts?"

Sometimes the squeaky wheel doesn't get the grease, it just gets replaced

You can't tell a book by its movie



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Lawrence

Lawrence

Founder
Staff member
Also...what is your screen resolution?

Lawrence,
Expediters Online.com


Sacred cows make the best burgers

"So tell me, are those cookies made with real Girl Scouts?"

Sometimes the squeaky wheel doesn't get the grease, it just gets replaced

You can't tell a book by its movie



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greg334

greg334

Veteran Expediter
I tried to edit my post and got 500 errors. But when I returned I saw that the margin on the header has shifted over to the right with all the browsers (ie, Opera and Firefox) for the forum index page and the thread index page. This maybe a fixed width problem.
I checked my saved (off line) pages and checked them against different resolutions. I think (this is the reason I asked about what software you are using) that the changes are not allowing the browser to fill in the margins like the old software used to do. I find this problem in the recent ecommerce suite upgrades that i used, they upgraded the software and it messed up all the stores margins.
Not to criticize you or your web developers but I have a suggestion for future migration and upgrade. You should make all the changes on another server, if not at least a sub-domain, have all the testing done there and even invite people to look at the changes and make suggestions before going live. I only say this with years of experience in IT/software/web development.


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Firefox, which I understand that this may be the problem with margins, but Opera and IE have a similar issue. looking at one old page and the new one, the margins are just a little too wide on the sides.
Maybe I am too picky about web sites.
Oh I am running 1280 X 800 which i know will affect things.
 
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Panzer

Expert Expediter
Hummm... Nice improvment overall as far as look and feel, but this forum S/W is buggy. It's a bit klutzy and now after the changes, more difficult to read when using a widescreen (1680x1050) resolution. I have to use the horzontal scroll bar to read messages (Firefox browser) since it does not adjust right or left margins sometimes. Other times, like right now, the message is compressed into a three inch coloum so I have to vertically scroll a lot to read messages!

You might look into php bbs software. It's open source, so no fees and more mods available than you could ever count. I ran a very active forum for two years using it and never had any problems. You can get more info at:

http://www.phpbb.com/

Then again, if what you are using is working w/o too many problems, no need to change... ;-)
 
LDB

LDB

Veteran Expediter
Retired Expediter
Overall it's a very good look and definitely looks more upscale. I do agree it would be nice if the forum was the width of the screen in whatever resolution one is using. Mine is showing about 40% of the screen width so there's lots of up/down scrolling. I will say that is MUCH better than the old version that was about 1.5 times as wide as the screen sometimes and took lots of left/right scrolling. I'd vote to keep it narrow and scroll up/down if that meant never getting it too wide again.

Leo Bricker
OOIDA 677319
truck 4958
73's K5LDB
Support the entire Constitution, not just the parts you like.
 
Lawrence

Lawrence

Founder
Staff member
We are still working on these issues. We avoid free S/W as they are prone to hackers. Thanks.

Lawrence,
Expediters Online.com


Sacred cows make the best burgers

"So tell me, are those cookies made with real Girl Scouts?"

Sometimes the squeaky wheel doesn't get the grease, it just gets replaced

You can't tell a book by its movie



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Thanks For Visiting EO!



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kg

kg

Veteran Expediter
Charter Member
Owner/Operator
I also find the margins too large although you say this will be fixed.

It seems to me that all the pastel coloration is a bit lacking in contrast and tends to be hard to read in certain light.

I,am sure this forum change is difficult but the bugs will be shaken out in time no doubt.

At least you make an attempt to improve and advance.

Just my opinion.
 
Lawrence

Lawrence

Founder
Staff member
Your margins are too large? What browser are you using and what is your screen resolution?

Thanks!

Lawrence,
Expediters Online.com


Sacred cows make the best burgers

"So tell me, are those cookies made with real Girl Scouts?"

Sometimes the squeaky wheel doesn't get the grease, it just gets replaced

You can't tell a book by its movie



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Thanks For Visiting EO!
[p]
http://www.expeditersonline.com/hotnews/sterling_eo_forum.jpg


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Lawrence

Lawrence

Founder
Staff member
Margins are still an issue at different resolutions. We are sill looking at a few differnt issues. EO and our software predate all the new resoultions of the last few years. But alas - we will have a fix this week for sure.

Lawrence,
Expediters Online.com


Sacred cows make the best burgers

"So tell me, are those cookies made with real Girl Scouts?"

Sometimes the squeaky wheel doesn't get the grease, it just gets replaced

You can't tell a book by its movie



-----------------------------------------
Thanks For Visiting EO!
[p]
http://www.expeditersonline.com/hotnews/sterling_eo_forum.jpg


Please Help Us Get The Word
Out About Expediters Online.com!
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