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  1. Jan 8th, 2003, 08:36 AM #1
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    Suggestion for improvement

    Well I was bored ok, but I came up with the following improved header.

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  2. Jan 8th, 2003, 01:14 PM #2
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    How is your suggestion different that what we have now. There isn't an ad running at the moment so I can't check.
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    OK, I see what you did. You changed the location of VBWire and you also made the whole thing neater. I'll make sure that Gus sees it.
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    Still outrageous, but better at the same time..... I definatly like it better than the current one (took me a while to see just what you did.)
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    Yeah, definately better. But no ads, which means no profit/money for JupiterMedia, so I highly doubt they'll go along with that.
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    I wish I had time to be bored

    When I finished (days) a couple of special projects, I was going to try to work with the colors and ad to make them integrate a little better as well. What you have done is better than what I was thinking of trying.

    Give us 24 hours (give or take a few) to run this by a few people.

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    Originally posted by Kings
    Yeah, definately better. But no ads, which means no profit/money for JupiterMedia, so I highly doubt they'll go along with that.
    What do you mean no ads? There was an ad......
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    Have you tried making these changes in a vBulletin system?

    We will need to see if the changes can be made without other issues being caused......

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    I like it but have a question for Slaine.

    There is a thin rule (possibly a table border) appearing just above the VB Wire News box in the verison that displays an ad there is no rule/border.

    Is this intential?

    Also, is this the same code? It can't be 2 separate code bases; the same code must support the appearance of an ad (when one is called from the server) or no ad (when the server doesn't want to send one).
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    Glad you like the suggestions. All I was trying to do was balance the design out a bit and make it less glaring - I accept the ads have to be there but thought it should be possible to make them 'fit in' a bit better.
    Originally posted by brad jones
    Have you tried making these changes in a vBulletin system?
    Nope - that's for you technical guys to sort out
    Originally posted by GusVenditto
    There is a thin rule (possibly a table border) appearing just above the VB Wire News box in the verison that displays an ad there is no rule/border.

    Is this intential?
    Not really, I just did a bit of cut and paste to get the second lower layout, so probably screwed up on what I was cutting. In practice it would probably look and work better if it was consistent.
    Originally posted by GusVenditto
    Also, is this the same code? It can't be 2 separate code bases; the same code must support the appearance of an ad (when one is called from the server) or no ad (when the server doesn't want to send one).
    The way I did it was to remove a <td> section to drop the ad and the cell it was occupying. I'm not sure how your ad/no ad stuff works but I don't see that it would be too difficult to make it work.

    Will tweak it tommorow when I have a bit more time available.

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