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Saebjorn
This website is like gas. It expands to fill up the space. In one way that is good, but it also means that I (having a widescreen) miss out in certain areas because of like, Rob's walls of text which aren't so wall-like when there are long lines, not tall paragraphs, etc. This came to bother me when I thought of adding something to the bottom of the webpage and realised it wouldn't work for me.

The botttom of webpage idea:

This is from the official Eragon fan site forums (Yup, I'm Saeb):

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Can you add this sort of thing to the bottom of the homepage? I'm pretty sure it can be done seeing as this screenshot was from another invisionfree forum. OR THIS SORT OF THING RESERVED FOR SHAMROCK? ph34r.gif
bling_masta8
Scroll down on the forum index and you'll see what you've pointed out. I'm not sure what you otherwise mean tbh... unsure.gif
Bliz
You mean something like this?

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It's not on the homepage but you can find it under the forums.

btw - looks like your monitor is 800x600? tongue.gif
Saebjorn
No, its 1680x1050 (16:10).
That thing is only under the forums...
bling_masta8
... and you want it under all pages?
Tyranno
mine is that also but i have no problems
kreotis
QUOTE(Saebjorn @ May 4 2009, 02:40 AM) *

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QUOTE(Bliz @ May 4 2009, 03:43 AM) *

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Its there, you may of hidden it by accident.
Maarten
What? I don't get it? Your problem is that you want walls of text, so we have to add the board statistics to somehow fix that, even though we already have them? i meant.gif
Mangr0v3
QUOTE(Saebjorn @ May 4 2009, 07:40 PM) *

This website is like gas. It expands to fill up the space.


I'll go get my matches. heh.gif
Saebjorn
Well, its only under the forums. Its not on the home page (which would be the top priority in my book) and under any individual threads.

And on this sort of topic, I just noticed that there are no themes for Runecrypt that don't involve it filling up the entire browser. Normally websites stay the same size and just have more empty space around the sides.
Overdoziz
Who cares if you can see those statistics at the bottom or not?
Saebjorn
Well, the forum I saw this on didnt expand to fill up the browser and was't a very long webpage, so it was very apparent and noticeable, and looked like a good idea. The fact is that after more than a year on this site, I never noticed that bar on RuneCrypt.
bling_masta8
Let me get this straight...

RuneCrypt is:
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You want:
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Right?
Maarten
Well that's not gonna happen. This is just how invision power board is, I like it this way and there are many more who do. Get used to it, I actually like that this is not one of those crappy sites which have big white spaces left and right.
Rob
It's not on the homepage because the homepage is the MKportal and isn't really integrated with the forums.

To be honest, I'm not sure if you even could integrate the board statistics into the MKportal homepage. If it is possible, there's absolutely no point in doing so since we'll be losing the MKportal homepage due to Shamrock sometime soon anyway.
Cmafai
Yes, it could be done. Yes, there is an easy setting to change that would make it a contained-width layout. Yes, it would look like shit.

Here's why: Our site is different from the site you mentioned, because we have these nifty pop-out sidebars with all the little boxes and widgets and links and whatnot. If those were just floating to the side with whitespace to the left and right, it would look horrible. What's worse is that the standard width would change every time you open/closed the sidebars, shifting the entire site around in your browser. Bottom line is this site only really works with a liquid layout, sorry.

This is what it would look like:
Spoiler - Preview:

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Row
O god admin cp that must be hawt.

Animal Phylum
Tyranno
ffffffhghghghg

row so Phoronidaing cool right now
Saebjorn
QUOTE(Rob)
It's not on the homepage because the homepage is the MKportal and isn't really integrated with the forums.


Explained. Thank you Rob.


QUOTE(Cmafai @ May 5 2009, 11:01 PM) *

because we have these nifty pop-out sidebars with all the little boxes and widgets and links and whatnot. If those were just floating to the side with whitespace to the left and right, it would look horrible. What's worse is that the standard width would change every time you open/closed the sidebars, shifting the entire site around in your browser. Bottom line is this site only really works with a liquid layout, sorry.


Explained. Thank you Cmafai.
Bliz
You only posted that picture to tease us with the staff shoutbox didn't you cecchi sad.gif
Cmafai
I honestly forgot either of those admin things were in that picture. Sorry bud, its really not as exciting as it looks... notice the one shout in the last 2 weeks.
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