Post by Harlock on Sept 20, 2008 3:21:46 GMT -5
You've probably noticed a few things looking different around here. We decided to add some new forums to fill in some holes in the community, and at the same time do a little house keeping.
We've added the two new forums, Small Scale Live Steam and Stationary Engines. Both are neglected topics on other boards, so Ed and I have decided to give them a shot on here. The Small Scales Forum was a natural since we already host the premiere Kozo builders forum, which is mostly concerned with 3/4" (and Ed's marvelous Gauge 1 creations.) Hopefully we can create a critical mass of small scales builders.
The Stationary Forum was created to make people aware of stationary engines and the excellent opportunity they present as a way of learning to machine without getting over your head in a locomotive project right away.
General stuff:
I've changed the title bar color from the garish orange to a more subtle de-saturated blue. Unfortunately I seem to have broken the gradient color feature in the process, I've contacted proboards about that. I also de-saturated the yellow, and there is now a white highlight that follows your mouse when you hover over the forums and threads.
We've also eliminated the categories. Each forum was redundantly placed in in its own identically named category. They are all now under the "Live Steam" category heading, presenting a much more compact view on the home page.
We fixed the Discover Live Steam logo on the title banner.
I have also paid $7 to proboards to make the board ad-free for a month, to celebrate our minor revamp. This change should become apparent in the next day or two. With occasional donations from regulars, we can keep this board ad-free permanently.
We removed the stale electric car project forum and I cleaned up the out of date sticky threads on the general board. I'm gonna stick this one to the top for just a few weeks to make sure infrequent visitors catch it.
Probably the major remaining thing to do is to replace the button icons that contain the hard to read white text with black outlines, which is designed to work with both light and dark backgrounds but neither very well. We'll get to that soon.
Enjoy! If you have any comments, I'm open to hearing them.
--Mike
We've added the two new forums, Small Scale Live Steam and Stationary Engines. Both are neglected topics on other boards, so Ed and I have decided to give them a shot on here. The Small Scales Forum was a natural since we already host the premiere Kozo builders forum, which is mostly concerned with 3/4" (and Ed's marvelous Gauge 1 creations.) Hopefully we can create a critical mass of small scales builders.
The Stationary Forum was created to make people aware of stationary engines and the excellent opportunity they present as a way of learning to machine without getting over your head in a locomotive project right away.
General stuff:
I've changed the title bar color from the garish orange to a more subtle de-saturated blue. Unfortunately I seem to have broken the gradient color feature in the process, I've contacted proboards about that. I also de-saturated the yellow, and there is now a white highlight that follows your mouse when you hover over the forums and threads.
We've also eliminated the categories. Each forum was redundantly placed in in its own identically named category. They are all now under the "Live Steam" category heading, presenting a much more compact view on the home page.
We fixed the Discover Live Steam logo on the title banner.
I have also paid $7 to proboards to make the board ad-free for a month, to celebrate our minor revamp. This change should become apparent in the next day or two. With occasional donations from regulars, we can keep this board ad-free permanently.
We removed the stale electric car project forum and I cleaned up the out of date sticky threads on the general board. I'm gonna stick this one to the top for just a few weeks to make sure infrequent visitors catch it.
Probably the major remaining thing to do is to replace the button icons that contain the hard to read white text with black outlines, which is designed to work with both light and dark backgrounds but neither very well. We'll get to that soon.
Enjoy! If you have any comments, I'm open to hearing them.
--Mike