[DaveMorton]

I have to second that, I'm afraid. With the old forums, a page refresh allowed me to monitor new posts more efficiently, and saved me a lot of time and effort over the way it is now. I'm not complaining, mind you (well, maybe I am, but only a little ), but I miss that aspect of the old design, as well.

[Freddy]

How dare you, of course I can't do that 

Only joking.  Yes I can replicate that by altering the main template I think.  It won't be just yet as I am working on a new article system at the moment.  I designed it from the ground up, but have built it so that the articles will show up on the same links as before as there were plenty of links in to those articles.

When I have finished that I will take a look at your request

[DaveMorton]

Thanks, Freddy! You're my hero!

[Data]

Its hard to put into words how much I appreciate all your hard work Freddy, So I thought I would kill two birds with one stone, not that I think anyone should kill birds, no, no I like them too much, oops going off topic.

Anyway back to the two birds, that I haven’t killed.

A Video to explain my feelings.

And a test to see how to embed video.

[Freddy]

lol totally like awesome like 

To have a break from my article mod I set about the task you two set me.  What a pain lol, much more work than anticipated but I think I got there.

I have adapted the side panel and rearranged the template so that I can easily add new blocks to it, so that is nice.

It's not throwing any errors for me, see how we get on with that.

It is set to display on the forum index, within a board and when actually viewing messages.  I think that should do it.

Tested in Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer...much preferring the new IE to the old ones.

[Freddy]

Made the forum wider now too so it shows up okay in 1024.

Restricted YouTube videos to 450px as well so it fits on 1024.

[Data]

You’ve done well, but what took you so long 

There is plenty of free space there now, maybe put in some other blocks with some goodies on, I have some ideas but I have a feeling you and others might too.

[DaveMorton]

That's just fine, Freddy. And I love the width now. It's roomier, and doesn't feel "cramped". Well done, Sir. Well done.

[Freddy]

Cool

Data, yes there's plenty more room for further blocks, open to suggestions...one of them will be a recent articles block.  I don't want to put a lot of stats and things in here though.  I want to focus on content rather than gadgets.

Dave, many thanks

That's it for me today, see you tomorrow. 

[Data]

A block that pulls information from the media section, latest picture, comments or whatever you can think of Freddy.

I would also like to see a login form somewhere, so a user doesn’t have to go to the login page.

Only my opinion though 

[Freddy]

One click too many huh ? 

Ok I will look into it.  It never effects me as I never log out, but if that's gonna save your mouse then I will see what I can do

And yes, a latest gallery block is on the to do list thanks

Us oldies are so fussy aren't we ?

[Data]

Thanks for joining the “save Data’s mouse” campaign Freddy .

[Freddy]

Hehe no problem.

I'll finish off the article system first though.  It's going well at the moment, I think it's nearly there.  It does everything we need and will do PHP as well as HTML.

This afternoon and evening has seen me trawling through all the articles to see what's worth keeping.  I am honestly shocked by some of the code I wrote four or five years ago. Some of it makes me wonder how the page ever displayed correctly.  So that made more work, but I have now recoded all the articles and they all share the same format.

I should have it set up here tomorrow at some point if all goes well. 

[Duskrider]

Ops,     I notice the multi-pic gif's don't work in media center.  Only top pic shows.   

[Freddy]

Not something I can fix.