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Posted by: GMR Jul 18 2009, 06:21 PM

Is it just me or are those ads on the side of the screen interfering with other members putting up posts etc? Whoever designed it has done a bad job. They - the ads - are taking up a quarter of the screen and over lapping into the writing area.

Posted by: nicster09 Jul 18 2009, 07:35 PM

On my screen they are below, then with a huge blank space

Posted by: GMR Jul 18 2009, 07:38 PM

It has been changing all day. I like the way they fiddle with it then jusg bugger off and leave it.

On my computer and laptop the forum is squashed up on the left with a quarter of the screen white and then the ads.... and the ads half obscure the writing area. It is really annoying.

Posted by: Bill1 Jul 18 2009, 07:48 PM

No such problems on my Apple PC. Ads on the right quarter of the screen.

Posted by: GMR Jul 18 2009, 07:55 PM

Thanks for that; maybe it affects some computers. But it is really bad on mine. I wish they leave things alone until they know what they are doing. Starting a job and then half finishing it is bad professionalism. I've even got half the writing cut off; the writing from the forum.

Posted by: Bill1 Jul 18 2009, 07:57 PM

Odd!

Posted by: Hugh Saskin Jul 18 2009, 08:01 PM

Something not quite right, certainly, as on my screen I've lost a word or two on the right from GMR regarding police activity in Northbrook St today. Luckily, I'd left the scene before they arrived

Posted by: Bill1 Jul 18 2009, 08:03 PM

Good one

Posted by: GMR Jul 18 2009, 08:21 PM

Posted by: GMR Jul 18 2009, 08:25 PM

They've been fiddling with it all this afternoon; the ads have been in different places with even different ads. They must have said halfway through their fiddling "oh, look at the time... we'll leave it and come back Monday." Which week, month or year is anybody's guess

Posted by: Iommi Jul 18 2009, 09:19 PM

I don't have any problem. There's an add right at the bottom, but it doesn't interfere. If there is any difference, then it is likely to be browser dependant.

Posted by: JeffG Jul 18 2009, 09:28 PM

Grr! I thought it must be those poor benighted souls who use Internet Explorer. A few minutes ago it was fine in Firefox, with the ads at the bottom of the screen. So I fired up IE and sure enough got the ads on the right.

I went back to Firefox and blow me down, now the ads are on the right. with everything squashed up. No problem with losing any text, though.

Perhaps they are working on it as we speak...

Posted by: GMR Jul 18 2009, 09:36 PM

It must effect people differently. Thanks.

Posted by: GMR Jul 18 2009, 09:37 PM

I doubt they are working on it now. They were doing it this afternoon; you can tell. They were cocking everything up.

Posted by: GMR Jul 18 2009, 09:41 PM

This is what I am getting

http://img41.imageshack.us/i/cuttingv.jpg/

Posted by: Iommi Jul 18 2009, 10:39 PM

Yes, if anyone is reading this, don't Ctrl+F5 and flush the cache. BTW, post a complaint to the admins, I have.

I said...

Come on Admins sort the advert out on this site is it is crap and annoying!

Posted by: GMR Jul 18 2009, 10:45 PM

OK... thanks for that... I will do it.

Posted by: Jobet Jul 18 2009, 11:01 PM

Mine comes up with those silly adverts blocking on the right hand side.Wish they had left it alone as it was OK before.

Posted by: GMR Jul 19 2009, 09:14 AM

I think they were more interesting in the money the adverts can bring in than the welling being of the members on here.

It seems worse today; the forum is squashed up on the left; half the screen is taken up with just white space and just two adverts on top. Was the price worth paying to get a few quid in the till?

Posted by: Iommi Jul 19 2009, 09:21 AM

Perhaps we should boycott this site for its incompetence, or greed? The people that are responsible for this site clearly don't know what they are doing, or have a forum solution that is not robust enough to cope with inserting adverts properly.

Posted by: GMR Jul 19 2009, 09:26 AM

I can understand them wanting to improve things; but to half do a job, tools down when it is time to go home and leave this place as if they don't care is not very professional.

Posted by: Iommi Jul 19 2009, 09:33 AM

It's more than that, it's unprofessional.

Posted by: Bill1 Jul 19 2009, 09:40 AM

Mine is still fine, very strange!

Posted by: admin Jul 19 2009, 09:55 AM

Thanks one and all for your comments and sorry for any problems caused.
The problems with the new layouts and templates should be resolved by close of play today or Monday at the latest.

Thanks, Admin

Posted by: GMR Jul 19 2009, 10:04 AM

Thank you for your reply.

regards, Glenn

Posted by: GMR Jul 19 2009, 10:05 AM

Maybe that is because you've got an apple computer Or maybe the sun shines on you

Posted by: Iommi Jul 19 2009, 10:15 AM

The style sheets from the previous visits are cached, if you were to do Ctrl + F5 it will crap out like the rest.

Posted by: GMR Jul 19 2009, 11:00 AM

I did control F5 and nothing happened, or did I read you wrong? Probably that was the point

Posted by: Iommi Jul 19 2009, 11:32 AM

Er, Ctrl + F5 reloads the page in its entirety, so if the page hasn't changed then you won't notice anything. Should, however, Bill1 do it, then he will see the new (CRAP) style that intrudes so frustratingly into the user space. I see also it is getting worse, more CRAP adverts.


ADMIN - IF WE HAVE TO HAVE THESE CRAP ADVERTS PLEASE CENTRE JUSTIFY THE PAGE AND DON'T ENCROACH THE EDIT SPACE FOR POSTS.

Mind you, if this is the way the NWN want things to go, then I feel not like using this board any more, they have spoiled it.

Posted by: GMR Jul 19 2009, 01:39 PM

I noticed more ads; they (being NWN) seem a bit obsessive with these ads. One would of thought that correcting the lay of the land would be more of a priority.... but then i suppose I could be called naive for thinking that.

Posted by: Bill1 Jul 19 2009, 04:31 PM

The former rather than the latter I think

Posted by: Bill1 Jul 19 2009, 04:33 PM

Erm, guess I wont be doing that then

Posted by: Darren Jul 19 2009, 04:57 PM

Calm down. It's only a forum. It's not life or death.

A quick restart of the server will probably cure it.

Posted by: Iommi Jul 19 2009, 05:14 PM

It's a clumsy attempt at a panic inducing technique that I am trying to get to grips with that is championed by GMR!

Posted by: GMR Jul 19 2009, 05:53 PM

Posted by: GMR Jul 19 2009, 05:56 PM

It maybe only a forum, but it is a forum that NWN wishes us to use therefore it is not too much to expect it to be in working order.

As for a restart; read above as Admin has admitted it is there fault so no matter how many times one start the server you are going to get the same results.

Posted by: Strafin Jul 19 2009, 06:48 PM

I don't mind the ads, we do get a free forum after all which is a pretty good one I think. Admin has said that there is a problem and they are working on it, hopefully it will be fixed on Monday. Let's all stop having a go at Admin and get back to squabbling amongst ourselves!

Posted by: GMR Jul 19 2009, 06:58 PM

I agree the time has come to move on, however, without us voicing our opinion/ concerns then they (being admin) wouldn't know what was what.

I also agree with you about these being good forums. The problem never was the adverts; per se but them overlapping the writing area.

Posted by: JeffG Jul 19 2009, 07:04 PM

Well, I've installed AdBlock Plus into Firefox and got rid of the ads, but it still doesn't give me my screen back

Maybe if I look at the page source, I can find something else that needs blocking...

Posted by: Darren Jul 19 2009, 07:13 PM

A restart may well resolve the issue, as it can be caused by the java application partially crashing, a memory leak causing the RAM to run short.

OK, it's also likely that someone made a ham-fisted change to the HTML code too.

Follow the 3 R's

Restart
Reload
Rebuild

Posted by: GMR Jul 19 2009, 07:31 PM

Aren't you jumping the gun here a bit? Admin has admitted that it is down to software problems so your suggestions won't make a blind bit of difference.

This is what admin said:-

Posted by: Iommi Jul 19 2009, 08:18 PM

That is the point, the readable area has reduced by 40%!

Posted by: Darren Jul 19 2009, 08:24 PM

On the contrary. Reloading the base design from a previous good version will usually resolve the fault. You then reintegrate the actual content. It's a lot quicker than scanning line after line of HTML code to find the cause. The restart then allows the OSI layers in the server to load in the correct sequence.

Posted by: GMR Jul 19 2009, 08:28 PM

OK....

I did do what you said anyway, but nothing has changed.

Posted by: nicster09 Jul 20 2009, 10:36 AM

I see what you mean with forum all squashed up, i just decided to go on Firefox, i usually use Chrome.

Posted by: JeffG Jul 20 2009, 10:45 AM

Don't worry, Firefox is just the same. At least it's consistent

Posted by: GMR Jul 20 2009, 10:49 AM

Yes, it is bad... even worse if you are using a laptop as they have smaller screens.

Posted by: GMR Jul 20 2009, 10:49 AM

You mean consistently bad?

Posted by: Branston Pickle Jul 20 2009, 12:53 PM

They must have done something right- on my screen the adverts now only take up about 20% of the space. There are no white gaps and the actual forum bit takes up the rest. Hurrah!

Posted by: Iommi Jul 20 2009, 12:59 PM

Same here. Thanks Admin.

Posted by: GMR Jul 20 2009, 01:27 PM

It seems a lot better and the adverts don't encroach on the writing area. There is quite a bit of white space at the bottom of the main page of the forum; but that is just being nit picky

Posted by: J C Jul 21 2009, 04:25 PM

Is it just me or is anyone else still having problems?

Posted by: Andy Jul 21 2009, 04:53 PM

I am, but it's sporadic on a few pages not all of them.

Posted by: GMR Jul 21 2009, 06:02 PM

I think there are small minor problems; it might be worth PM admin if I was you.

Posted by: Iommi Jul 21 2009, 07:45 PM

Have you tried holding the Ctrl key and taping the F5 key simultaneously?

Posted by: Bill1 Jul 21 2009, 07:58 PM

Mine is still fine.

Hope everyone who is having problems is sorted out soon.

Posted by: J C Jul 22 2009, 10:05 AM

Thanks I have tried your suggestion but to no avail. Funny thing was mine was ok at the weekend but now not. Have now sent a pm to admin so hopefully will get resolved

Posted by: GMR Jul 22 2009, 10:18 AM

A few have complained about it so there must be a problem. Hopefully they will fix it for you.

Posted by: JMH Jul 22 2009, 10:28 AM

Me too now! And I thought I was immune cos I have a Mac (running Windows mind you!)

The problem with mine is random! Completely! One minute it's a certain thread, then it's another.

Posted by: GMR Jul 22 2009, 10:43 AM

Could it be because you've got a mac? I wonder what sort of computer Andy has got?

Posted by: J C Jul 22 2009, 10:43 AM

Admin swiflty got back to me to advise that they have got their 'web people' looking into it.

Unfortunately the screen where I read the message is overlaid with advertising so I couldn't see all of the message

Posted by: Bill1 Jul 22 2009, 11:33 AM

ROFLMAO!

Posted by: J C Jul 22 2009, 12:06 PM

FAO admin

Posted by: Branston Pickle Jul 22 2009, 12:09 PM

Will people kill me when I say mine's still fine?

Posted by: J C Jul 22 2009, 12:24 PM

All sorted now for me. YAY