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sjadey

I prefer the old colour scheme. The black background matched the home page (with the typewriter) and contrasts well with the emoticons and on the index page it's easier to spot which topics have new posts indicated by the yellow

icon.
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Alex Robertson · Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 2:19 pm Post subject:

People might get confused...the "black colour scheme" was new when the typewriter was introduced...the current colour sceme is the old(original) one prior to the upgrade.
I don't mind what the colour sceme is myself,as long it's there.

sjadey · Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 3:38 pm Post subject:

Ah, I wasn't aware of that, as I have only been a member of the forum since the typewriter was introduced, although I had looked around the site many times when it was still www.sparksofficialwebsite.com (or something like that). I tried to amend the poll to remove the old/new but it doesn't allow you to do it.
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E-Clect-Eddy · Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 5:52 pm Post subject:

Can't we have a colourschema to match the new album colours?
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sjadey · Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 6:11 pm Post subject:

I like that idea. At the same time they could add ECOTD to the display of spinning albums in the discography; it's over a year old now!
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Rissacakes · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject:

I actually fancy the other one. It's easier on the eyes.

I wonder how the decision came about to change things?
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no1sparksfaninheaven · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 11:58 am Post subject:

Alex Robertson · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 12:24 pm Post subject:

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Brightonian · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 4:57 pm Post subject:

Can't imagine it was planned. A glitch that reverted back to default and none of the powers that be has noticed!

I was one of the moaners when it all went black, but now this reversion looks ugly.

I say 'back to black!'

Alex Robertson · Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 1:21 am Post subject:

If it goes back to the black one and the topic titles are too small will there be a fresh flurry of complaints?....IMO it's a no win situation for the webmaster

sjadey · Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 10:01 am Post subject:

I imagine that changing the colour scheme is just a 2 minute job editing a style sheet, so if changing it back to black brings back the small font problem, then it's a simple job to change the colours back again too.
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E-Clect-Eddy · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 5:54 am Post subject:

Yeah, things can be fast & easy if you know how to and got the convidence by experience. I gues if it really was that easy they'd done it by now.

In my experience i rather make a good back-up before i start fiddling about. That sometimes takes up to 50x more time than the actual thing i have to change on a server.
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Sparky Rickmaniac · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 6:09 pm Post subject:

I'm of an age when reversed out (white letters on black page) is getting hard to read!
Plus, if you are still on dial up, as I am, this configuration loads a lot quicker.

E-Clect-Eddy · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 6:59 pm Post subject:

You have electricity???

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Sparky Rickmaniac · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 7:48 pm Post subject:

Yeah, at certain times of the day!
Mock if you want, but dial up has certain advantages:
1: It's cheaper
2: If you live in a rural area miles from the nearest telephone exchange, dial-up with a compression programme isn't that much slower than broadband
3: Male teenage offspring aren't so inclined to spend hours online when each page takes ages to load, mine have even been known to read something instead!

E-Clect-Eddy · Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 8:01 am Post subject:

aaaaaah a hardware solution for a software problem.

I remember the old dial-up days and it was okay for some time but after a while it just irritated to much, no internet radio, streaming media was hell, opening flashwebsite took ages...the cheapest broadband is good & fast enough for me, not to expensive.

Plus I just don't like reading books... unless they're comics.
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Sparky Rickmaniac · Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 3:22 pm Post subject:

E-Clect-Eddy · Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 4:26 pm Post subject:

She was very proud of me, when she was still alive.

They were glad i went to the library for any reason :-)
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Sparky Rickmaniac · Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 5:30 pm Post subject:

Libraries used to be the glory of Britain before they decided to rebrand them as "media centres"!
Bah Humbug.
And just to reiterate on my earlier post, my compression programme has gone AWOL tonight and I can still load the forum on dial-up in under 20 seconds, so there!