Forum width

glib

The new layout helps with this, but I still have issues. My usual monitor for browsing is my 1440x900 display that is turned to portrait (ie. 90 degrees from normal 'widescreens'). This means that the whole forum is about 124px too wide for my screen and I end up needing to scroll back and forth quite a bit. I can adblock the header image, and then things scale correctly and fit in the screen nicely, but as soon as someone posts an image (which, lets be honest, is nearly every thread) it resizes it down to fit the 1024px width that seems to have been designed.

I realize this is by-design, and most people don't design for a resolution smaller than 1024x768 anymore, but would it be possible to get a 'max width' parameter in the control panel options?

Pretty please?

Xenobond

Aye. I have my Cintiq in the center with 2 1280x1024 lcds in portrait mode. polycount_wide fixes this for me, though. The black theme... not so much.

glib

The old theme set to wide seems to make general browsing better (seems maybe 80px too wide now?) but it breaks far worse when images are inlined. If someone were to make a polycount.BLACK.narrow at 900px they would be my hero.

Jeremy Lindstrom

maybe this should of been in that forum post?

Emil Mujanovic

That's an interesting situation. I wonder how many more of our members have a similar issue or are using a screen resolution that is less than 1024px wide.
Thanks for bringing this up, its great to get this kind of feedback. However, I would expect a solution just yet as the current available themes are still only temporary. The Polycount.BLACK theme was just something Adam knocked up to closely resemble the new site because he had some free time on his hands.
We will put this under advisement for the proper theme when it rolls out.
And the thread Dekard is probably talking about is this one. If you have any suggestions, feel free to post them in there. Should maybe make it a sticky because it took me a while to actually find it :P

-caseyjones

adam

Switch it to the polycount.black-wide theme

glib

The black-wide with the header image adblocked seems to give me the best day-to-day viewing, but as soon as an image is posted it all goes to hell. Ah well.

okno

I pointed this out before in this thread. the old polycount_wide seems to be the only one which works.

adam

Can you guys screenshot the issue(s) you're having?

okno

Here's a screen

That's polycount.BLACK. The BLACK-wide version goes off a lot more (for me anyway).

pior

I remember back in the day when 800pix wide website died, there was a certain rule to follow when designing a 1024pix layout. Like, nothing should be wider than 998 pixels or something. That number was taking all the different browser in account regarding scroll bars thicknes, window border aso and hence was "1024pix monitor safe"

Maybe this will help.