Worksafe Theme

The Army Research Service worksafe theme is now online. Members can choose this by going to My Stuff -> Change Site Colours, or here: http://www.arrse.co.uk/cpgn2/Your_Account/edit=prefs.html

A know issue is that the forum category titles change to a dark not very helpful colour in IE6 when you hover the mouse over them. I'm going to leave that fix until we churn out version 2 at some point.

For those that don't know what this theme is, it's a much lighter version of the site with avatar pictures and user signatures removed. More suitable for use at work or perhaps with your kids around.

 

Excellent! My favourite theme returns. Also seems to be much quicker as I don't have to wait for sig blocks/avatars, etc to download ....

 

Re the front page: I want to limit the difference between the themes as much as possible as any significant changes cause headaches. Also I don't expect users to sit looking at the front page for extended periods of time, particularly now the last posts are much better dealt with elsewhere. Why not just link to them or the forums? I do think this is something where a few seconds of 'self help' could fix the problem.

Forums is a fair point and I assume that means black border between posts should also go? Anyone else have an opinion on that? Better differentiation and usability or more covert? Rank images also for the chop?

 

I've no objection at all to more white, but I am concerned that if I do it I will get cries to reverse it. You just need to hand in a petition of at least 1000 signatures

We could go really extreme and low graphics of the forums - almost like the print views, but with nicer fonts. I'll go with the majority view from Worksafe users.

(by the way the feedback is appreciated - I thought no-one had even noticed it!)

 

Roger. Anyone third that and I'll crack it right away?

 

Good point. I'll add it to the header as an icon, but won't me able to put it in the menu which is a shame.

This is only a problem in IE6 I believe(?) and can be overcome by going to the print version of any page. It's fairly minor stuff therefore for users who:

a. Use IE6. b. need to copy in the first place. c. Don't try the print layout.

Therefore while on the wish list it is not urgent and I'm going to have to move on from the theme and leave it until version 2.

 

Thanks to 4-8-Alpha to pointing out the theme switching while not logged in issue. Now sorted quite neatly (I think).

It does always take you back to the front page when you use it - a slight inconvenience for the sake of simplicity, but I think we can live with that:

 

Much lighter and also topic lists don't have the green borders any more - how's that?