Question about BWE front door welcome message

[DavidG]

Checking back in...

I think the new layout with the text to the left and the rotating pics to the right looks fabulous! Great work!

Text size looks fine.

Adding a few pics with people in them is a good idea. Don't know if adding captions to the pics is possible or even if it woud look good, but something to consider.

[DavidG]

Any thoughts about number of posts per page? Ten seems too few. Is that user configurable? If not, can we set it to something like 25 or 30?

[JimHow]

Mine has 40 posts per page, no?

[DavidG]

Yup - Phil must have changed that while I wasn't looking...

[JScott]

I would echo David's comment above. I think it's probably best to ignore the "MD" designation for David and I. I think it's irrelevant in the context and maybe I'm self-conscious about it but I don't want it to come off the wrong way.

[PhilR]

Rotating images on home page are now updated.

You may have to do a hard refresh (Ctrl + F5) to see them though.

Phil

[JimHow]

I kind of like the MDs on the front page but obviously it is completely up to Scott and David. I do think that whatever option we choose, it should either be both or neither.

[DavidG]

I tend to agree with Scott re: the MD.

On another note - seems like when I open a thread, it goes right into the quick reply box instead of to the first post in the thread. Any way to change that?

[DavidG]

I can make it go to the first post on opening the thread by turning off the quick reply box in the user control panel. Can I have it both ways, with the thread opening to the first post, and the quick reply box sitting at the bottom of the page? I thought that's how it was behaving originally... or maybe not...

[JimHow]

Phil, can you remove the MDs from the welcome page.

[PhilR]

David, it's OK for me. Can you tell me what you're clicking on to view the thread and also what browser and version you're using? (Find browser here if you're not sure: http://www.lorem.biz/mywebbrowser.asp) thanks

Edit: are you clicking the little "view the latest post" icon next to their username on the right-hand side? Because that will take you to the last post in the thread, which is always above the quick-reply box.

Jim, done that.

[DavidG]

I'm clicking on the title of the thread, not the view last post button, and it takes me right to the quick reply post ready to type with a cursor right in the quick reply box. Somehow I don't recall it doing that the other day, but I could be remembering wrong. My browser is Internet Explorer version 7.0.6000.16764.

[PhilR]

Yes I've just seen it happens when I use IE7 as well, I'll have a look in to it

[PhilR]

Turn out this was a bug, i've applied the fix from the phpBB support forum and it seems to have stopped now.

[DavidG]

Yup, that fixed it. I had to close the browser and restart, but it's now working correctly.

We'll probably find a few more bugs along the way, but this looks awfully good.