Tip: How to setup a decent working environment

try67, it's very amusing to me that we both arrived at an identical layout scheme independently.

As you can see, I'm losing about a quarter of the screen due to this wonderful grey bar that's stuck there. It would have been nice to be able to use that space for some more boxes, but I guess that's expecting too much at this point...

If you are using Firefox, you can try out my Stylish and/or Greasemonkey hacks to further customize the look of the forums.

These work with either the Stylish plugin or the GreaseMonkey plugin. The very first one will make the site full browser window width.

http://userstyles.org/users/21328

This one only works with GreaseMonkey and makes the right-hand sidebar hidable throughout most of the website.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46297

I was playing around with the Your View setting of the homepage

Just how does one get there?

Thanks for pointing out the column layout item - I missed that when setting up my page. I've seen a couple of posts suggesting using the HTML widget to create links, so I went with that method rather than RSS feeds. I even set a couple of my most used links to stay highlighted with underlines and a different color. To do it, drag that HTML widget down, and click the Edit button.

And here is a snippet of the code I used:

<ul>
  <li><a href="http://forums.adobe.com/community/general/forum_comments" style="text-decoration:underline; color:#ff0000;">Forum Comments</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://forums.adobe.com/community/general/adobedotcom_feedback">Adobe Feedback</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://forums.adobe.com/community/dreamweaver">Dreamweaver Forums</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="http://forums.adobe.com/community/dreamweaver/dreamweaver_general" style="text-decoration:underline; color:#0077ff;">Dreamweaver General</li>
      <li><a href="http://forums.adobe.com/community/dreamweaver/dreamweaver_development">Dreamweaver Appdev</li>
      <li><a href="http://forums.adobe.com/community/dreamweaver/dreamweaver_dynamic_html">Dreamweaver Dynamic HTML</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

And, of course, when I have the Stylish user style sheet applied, I get the full width of the browser window.

try67 wrote: I was playing around with the Your View setting of the homepage (which doesn't seem to open as default, unfortunately), and I thought what I came up with might be useful to other (frustrated) users... If you have a different setup, you can post it here as well.  I choose the 3-column layout because it seems to minimize the huge font that is used in any of the 2-columns options. Since I follow mostly certain forums (as I'm sure most others do as well), and there doesn't seem to be any way of creating a "favorites" list, I've added the RSS feeds from my forums of interest into my customized home-page, as well as my private messages box and the list of all forums. It looks something like this. (I hope the image is clear, in the preview it looks quite small). As you can see, I'm losing about a quarter of the screen due to this wonderful grey bar that's stuck there. It would have been nice to be able to use that space for some more boxes, but I guess that's expecting too much at this point...

Nice! Thanks for sharing that. I've got mine set up as well, but much simplified. Mostly just to have links to the forums I frequent. People are going to really like it as they discover it and learn to set it up to suit their own workflow.