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Barmymoo:
Change-resistors, I have a plan.

Go to the home page.
Press "print screen".
Save the image.
Create a website using just that image.
Whenever you want to use the forums, go to your website.
Look at the image and revel in what you know.

bicostp:
The only thing I'd really change is the width, especially since it's multiple layers of heavily-padded boxes. Fixed-width website layouts just irk me for some reason...

Maybe try setting the width to something like 90% of the window layout with a minimum of 900 pixels, or however wide the current version is? It's fairly straightforward to do that with CSS if everything is in a wrapper div.

e: Try setting the black_rain div to 95% width with 15 pixel padding instead of 30, and add "min-width: 900px" to the "mainframe" div. (That will keep it from getting squished into a mess on narrow screens.)

e2: Why did the dev set a 50 pixel left margin on the tab bar then shift it 40 pixels to the left, leaving a big gap on that side on screens narrower than 1280x1024 :psyduck:

e3: I made those changes to a copy of the stylesheet. You're welcome to give it a try if you want! It scales up to 1920 fine, and still looks good down in smartphone and netbook territory.

pwhodges:
I'm happy to make that change (I've done it on the test server); I have no strong view on fixed width versus fluid (my own web pages are fixed), though I thought that at least some people might prefer a choice including a fixed layout.  Actually, I've noticed that the same designer has reverted to fluid for his later designs.

The margin oddity is neither here nor there, really.  It's worth noting that some things that might seem odd make sense when you can also see the large number of really complicated pages of settings in the admin area, but in this case I see nothing that it affects.

For smartphones, I think the Tapatalk app is better than fiddling around with themes (although it's installed on the test server, you can't get to it because I don't want to link my server to the world through the Tapatalk network).  Also, in the new software, you can go to the bottom of the page on a phone (or not) and select WAP2 to get a bare-bones version - but you lose pictures and stuff.

bicostp:
Well, I always shoot for a minimum width of 1024 pixels, since that's where netbooks and older desktops live. (Screw 800x600, if you're still using that you need glasses and/or a new monitor.)

That's one the only reason I like phpbb: it uses a separate template for the admin pages.

Patrick:
I assume that all old posts will still continue to be accessible, and that formatting and tags and such will still use BBCode?

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