Will You Notice the Subtle Changes in Tomorrow's Layout Update?

[Greg Bernhardt]

Tomorrow I'll be releasing a minor update to the layout. Lots of little areas have been tweaked and some colors have been altered. Functionality and layout elements remain unchanged. If you don't know what to look for you may not even notice much difference. Once the update is live feel free to leave feedback here. I'm sure I'll be tinkering plenty more as I see things I missed or need to fix. Thanks!

 

[ZapperZ]

Is this like putting a lipstick on a pig?

:)

Zz.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Is this like putting a lipstick on a pig?

Yup, not even opening up the lipstick, just putting the lipstick on top of a pig

 

[davenn]

@Greg Bernhardt

So I get the 2015 humour award and now I have nowhere to continue the fun

and nowhere for the general photosharing, it's gone too

Dave

 

[StevieTNZ]

Will that require server down time?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Will that require server down time?

Nope, it will be instantaneous

 

[SteamKing]

When writing a new post, the green toolbar at the top of the editor box seems to be missing the button which left, center, or right justifies text. What is there now are two buttons, on which makes a bullet list and the other which makes a numbered list.

Can we get the justification button back?

 

[Samy_A]

The LaTeX button in the editor box, and the Whiteboard are missing too.

 

[SteamKing]

Also, the buttons which control the font colors and sizes are gone.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

The LaTeX button in the editor box, and the Whiteboard are missing too.

From what I could gather, the whiteboard feature was rarely used. Did you use it? In the end the LaTeX preview button was redundant as preview accomplishes the same thing.

Can we get the justification button back?. buttons which control the font colors and sizes are gone.

Could you link me to some of your posts where you use these bbcodes effectively? It's been my feeling for awhile that these are rarely used effectively and only crowd the toolbar.

 

[Samy_A]

From what I could gather, the whiteboard feature was rarely used. Did you use it? In the end the LaTeX preview button was redundant as preview accomplishes the same thing.

Ok, no big deal indeed.

 

[SteamKing]

Could you link me to some of your posts where you use these bbcodes effectively? It's been my feeling for awhile that these are rarely used effectively and only crowd the toolbar.

Greg,
Here is one of my recent posts:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/hookes-law-and-plastic-materials.851527/#post-5340737

I prefer to center images on the page; I think it looks better that way, rather than everything jammed over to the left.

Also, since the font color and size buttons are gone, you can't do anything with the text.

It's not like the toolbar was crowded before with buttons. As it looks now, the toolbar appears to be only half-populated.

 

[mfb]

The codes are not gone, you can still type them in.

 

[SteamKing]

Yeah, but how? Is there a link or some documentation? Or is it using Latex?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Yeah, but how? Is there a link or some documentation?

https://www.physicsforums.com/help/bb-codes

 

[SteamKing]

https://www.physicsforums.com/help/bb-codes

Thanks, Greg.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

The forums look more colorful now. Awesome work!

 

[Vanadium 50]

Blue and orange? Are you now a Bears fan? Or Illini?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Blue and orange? Are you now a Bears fan? Or Illini?

Oh no you didn't! I'm a die hard packer fan! (reaching for ban hammer! )

 

[Vanadium 50]

I dunno...the blue and orange...maybe it's subconscious...

 

[ZapperZ]

I was hoping that a listing of the direct links to the various FAQs and articles would be done in this latest cosmetic changes. But I guess I have to wait a bit longer.

Zz.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I was hoping that a listing of the direct links to the various FAQs and articles would be done in this latest cosmetic changes. But I guess I have to wait a bit longer.

Zz.

End of next week

 

[Drakkith]

Greg, I love the 'New' tags that pop up on the right side of new posts. Makes it MUCH easier to quickly find where you left off in a thread.

 

[SammyS]

... In the end the LaTeX preview button was redundant as preview accomplishes the same thing.

...

The LaTeX sandbox did have more functionality than merely doing previews.

It gave a list of recently used LaTeX codes. I found that to be very handy.I also found it useful to have the indent feature on the green (now blue) toolbar.

 

[Bystander]

Post statistics? Whimper, whimper, whine?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Post statistics? Whimper, whimper, whine?

Just vanity :)