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Comments on the new layout of the Forum FAQ

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
August 7, 2009
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I change the layout of the Forum FAQ a bit. Since the FAQ is read-only for non-moderators I moved the actions down, I don't see the point in a Top participants widget since it is all managed by JC anyway, so I was able to give the discussions the full width allowed by the template:

http://forums.adobe.com/community/general/forum_comments/faq

How do you like it? Is this something to try for the Forum comments forum as well?

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Jacob Bugge

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Somebody, anybody, please? I know too little.

Jacob Bugge

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If the Actions & Notifications box to the right were moved just a tiny bit up, we could have the same wide thread list in this forum as in the FAQ section.

I should like that. And then the same in the other forums, of course.

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Jochem van DietenAuthor

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Not an available option. There were some designs based on hand-written HTML that did something similar, but no consensus.

If anybody wants to give it a go, you are welcome to grab the HTML source from the Forum FAQ, alter whatever you want between the tags in the source and send me the result. If it is HTML and CSS only we could try other designs out.

Ramón G Castañeda

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Inasmuch as this is all I see, it suits me fine.

Curt Wrigley

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I agree with Ramon. Id rather use the local css mod to allow full browser width, than to load the top of the forum. The proposed layout would consume too much vertical space; meaning little to no posts viewable without scrolling.

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Anonymous

is the author column actually needed on the left? i could live without it.

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Jochem van DietenAuthor

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Changing the options in the column list is not an option the templates offer. And at this point I am not willing to go the way of overriding the stylesheets provided to hide the column that way.

Jacob Bugge

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The FAQ layout would be a great improvement in all forums. The only thing from the right needed at the top is Start a Discussion.

A certain contraction, and it would be even closer to the fair forums.

Zeno Bokor

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Jacob Bugge wrote:
The FAQ layout would be a great improvement in all forums. The only thing from the right needed at the top is Start a Discussion.
A certain contraction, and it would be even closer to the fair forums.

I've been dabbling with the idea of making a single column layout for the Overview page on the Photoshop Windows forums but i don't know if it would make much of a difference because it would still change to a 3 column layout inside of the threads themselves.

Jacob Bugge

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Is it not possible to do more or less the same in the threads?

Curt Wrigley

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I would rather the action box stay on the right, but the forum stretch the full width of the browser window. (like many of us do with the local css code) I wouldnt like scrolling to the bottom anytime an action is needed.

And many forums have placed helpful links to associated forums to the right, which are very convenient. This design would remove all that.

Kath-H

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I suppose that's true, but only the Action box is really needed, I think. Maybe that could be at the top - there's a lot of wasted space by that massive black box.