Feature Suggestions

[Scott]

I find it to be much better when there is a line of separation, good work

--Scott

[1c3d0g]

Yes, thank you Michael, it's much better now.

[Michael]

Since this is the Site Discussion thread, I might aswell give some input.

There is one major thing that is really irksome to me since the latest updates to the main page. The only breaks inbetween each new topic under the "GNU/Linux Hardware News" section are blank spaces, I think its more visually pleasing if there's a solid colored bar of sorts at the end of each new section. I know that there are multiple blank spaces and the topics are in bold, but for this websites theme, a solid grey bar to signify the end of a topic would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
--Scott

Was intended, but the CSS for that never ended up getting uploaded. There is a 1px horizontal rule between news entries now, and we will continue to tweak that area.

[Scott]

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Since this is the Site Discussion thread, I might aswell give some input.

There is one major thing that is really irksome to me since the latest updates to the main page. The only breaks inbetween each new topic under the "GNU/Linux Hardware News" section are blank spaces, I think its more visually pleasing if there's a solid colored bar of sorts at the end of each new section. I know that there are multiple blank spaces and the topics are in bold, but for this websites theme, a solid grey bar to signify the end of a topic would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
--Scott

[niniendowarrior]

Hey Michael,

As an Opera user, I can happily say your upgrade has fixed the problem on the main page.

Great job!!!

[Michael]

The first set of updates to the Phoronix Content Management System v5 (PHXCMS5) have been merged with our live server. Most of these improvements are under the hood, but there are a few visible changes. A majority of the CSS has been re-written for improved browser compatibility, load-time/efficiency, and the basis for some future expansions. The site should appear correctly in all major browsers. If you notice any browsing problems please report them.

The PHXCMS updates coming out later this year and next year will bring some new user features and other good things to come. Today's update can almost be dubbed as a maintenance release.

[Michael]

Hopefully on/by September 1st we will be committing our first set of changes to the live server. As mentioned earlier, some of the new features will be implemented gradually, etc...

This first step is a massive code cleanup which should greatly improve the efficiency, load time, and browser compatibility (those few bugs that presently exist).

[David]

We should begin rolling out our first batch of noticeable changes next month for the CMS upgrade.

Basically lots of code cleaning and other maintenance is presently going on.

Comments/thoughts are still welcome.

[niniendowarrior]

What version of Opera are you using? This is the first time I have heard the problem reported.

Opera 9.00 beta. I could have sworn I updated to Opera 9.01... but anyway, that's what my browser says. I did test Opera 9.01 on a different machine.

[Patrick]

I checked opera on my computer and the same offset appeared.
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Version 9.01
Build 400
Platform Linux
System i686, 2.6.17
Qt library 3.3.6
Java Runtime Environment installed
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