SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted April 26, 2007 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted April 26, 2007 A bit of a request to long-time Forum members: Please delete your main Forums bookmarks, clear cache and then bookmark the following page: http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php (if you didn't change the URL you have bookmarked, it is basically using a "forwarding script", and it would be best all round if you bookmarked the new direct address) You might also get a nice new icon appearing in your URL window in your browser. Thanks Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 Just signed in after 3 days off sick. Loads to catch up on! Looks fantastic, thanks SJ. By the way, while everyone is updating their bookmarks, if you use the "add your own button" feature on the Yahoo toolbar you can create your very own SJ button at the top of your screen! Link to post Share on other sites
holo 0 Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 looks really great, good job SJ Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted April 28, 2007 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted April 28, 2007 LAYOUT: We have made some changes to the layout of the Forums. The default is now 2 columns and you are able to turn off/on the right hand side column in My Stuff > My Preferences. GRAEMLINS We have added the original SJ graemlins which can now be used on the "Quick Reply" and "Reply" pages as well as in the Shout Box. You should now be able to post them by using the shortcuts you are used to as well (for example "colon and right bracket" for smiley). In the main "Reply" form, click on the "Smilies" icon link and you will be able to just click on the Graemlin you want to use and it will appear in your form..... You can also add these to any of your replies (Quick Reply, Reply, Shout Box) by using the following shortcuts on either: colon right bracket semi-colon right bracket colon + D colon wave colon colon lol colon colon clap colon colon wakaranai colon colon shifty colon colon sadglass colon colon thumbsup colon colon thumbsdown colon colon angry colon Link to post Share on other sites
cal 6 Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 They're back! Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted April 28, 2007 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted April 28, 2007 QUOTATION BOXES We have adjusted the way quotation boxes appear in posts - they should now look generally cleaner and better laid out than before. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted April 28, 2007 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted April 28, 2007 LARGER FONTS We have now created a new "stylesheet" for the Forums which in effect makes all the fonts/text on the Forums displayed larger. To change the font sizes displayed, go to My Stuff and then My Preferences. You should see an section called Your preferred stylesheet. In that dropdown, please choose snowjapan-largerfonts. Scroll down the page and click Submit. When you do that you should find that the fonts of all the parts of the forums are larger than before. (You can of course go back to the smaller font version at any time). Link to post Share on other sites
happyhappy 0 Posted April 29, 2007 Share Posted April 29, 2007 Good for my really big screen at work that new set cheers. The new set up looks really good. Still getting used to it, but I do like it. Well done. Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted April 29, 2007 Share Posted April 29, 2007 Nicely done. It took me a while to get back in, but i've made it. I'll have to have a look around, looks good so far - good job guys! Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted May 11, 2007 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted May 11, 2007 We've made a few small adjustments today to the display of the Forums, including making the "quote" boxes larger. Yesterday we also split the Travel forum into two - Japan and Overseas. Not actually part of the forums but relevant if you want to post photos - we have increased the size limit of each photo uploaded to 500KB. Photos can be uploaded from the Photo Gallery section: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/photo_gallery.php Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 Good - those quote boxes were really narrrow on my widescren display and look better now. Link to post Share on other sites
iiyamadude 6 Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Nice work on the new forums, they look really good. Not been for a while so was surprised to see things looking quite different. Link to post Share on other sites
SplendidSeekerOfMatferon6 0 Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 Just been taking a look round, lots of changes. Looks good I think Link to post Share on other sites
ShinyDiscoBall 2 Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 I have a question... about the page views of the threads. Did they all start from zero with the new forums? Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Moderator SnowJapan.Com#4 5 Posted May 17, 2007 SnowJapan Moderator Share Posted May 17, 2007 On these new Forums, that data started off as the number of posts in a thread. So basically if a thread had 23 posts/messages in it, the thread started its life on these new forums with page views set at 23. Obviously threads like the "Snow in Japan" one actually have had literally hundreds of thousands of page views, but that data in the old forums system did not exist (well not in a format to display anyway). Link to post Share on other sites
ShinyDiscoBall 2 Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 OK thanks! Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 I just noticed you can view the forums sorted by page views, replies, subject and starter. That's really cool. Link to post Share on other sites
pon farr 0 Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 Just been playing around with that, really cool feature. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted May 31, 2007 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted May 31, 2007 We've just made a few slight changes here and there to text used on the main Forums to make things a bit easier and more obvious - for example - in the top bar "Forum List" is now "FORUMS HOME"; - in the drop downs "My Messages" is now "My Private Messages"; - on each post the link to the main "Reply" page is labelled "Full Reply". ...and a number of other similar changes. We have also made the reply box bigger by default. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted June 10, 2007 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted June 10, 2007 The Shout Box has now been renamed Chat Box and we have some new guidelines. Please read them here if you intend to use the Chat Box. http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/222937/page/1#Post222937 Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted September 7, 2007 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted September 7, 2007 Today (7th Sept 07) a fair few new changes and improvements have been made to the Forums. For details please click here: http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/233486#Post233486 Link to post Share on other sites
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