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Cnet forum page boundaries have been reduced...
by John.Wilkinson
- 8/11/08 6:35 PM
In reply to: CNET website changes by spacedalien
Most noticeable by looking at the header, which now has a white border on three sides that didn't exist before and is absent from all other red-ball sites.
John
(NT) Fixed.
by John.Wilkinson - 8/17/08 9:53 AM
In reply to: Cnet forum page boundaries have been reduced... by John.Wilkinson
Bad Real-Time Activity link...
by John.Wilkinson - 8/12/08 12:37 PM
In reply to: CNET website changes by spacedalien
Lee,
I saw the Forum Information change on the front door, but unfortunately the link for the real-time tracker is linking to a malformed layout.
Normal: http://forums.cnet.com/7716-6035-0.html
Abnormal: http://forums.cnet.com/7716-6035-0.html&tag=forum.fd
I don't know why the tag makes such a difference there, but it's something to look into.
John
Thanks John! It was the ampersand in the tag that caused it.
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 8/12/08 1:26 PM
In reply to: Bad Real-Time Activity link... by John.Wilkinson
I switched it out with a question mark and now it's all good now.
Thanks for catching that!
New bug in the "new" new header of the new site...
by John.Wilkinson - 8/15/08 4:14 PM
In reply to: CNET website changes by spacedalien
Lee,
All of the other cnet.com subdomains have an additional site logo (the text 'download.com,' 'reviews,' etc.) after the red ball. The forums do not, but evidently we still have a link there...just click the faint glow. Unfortunately it links to a page that does not exist. (http://forums.cnet.com/2001-1_102-0.html?tag=hdr) Can we get a new link there, and perhaps some new text ('forums') to go with it? New? 
John
John, FYI, what I now see.
by MarkFlax - 8/16/08 3:09 AM
In reply to: New bug in the "new" new header of the new site... by John.Wilkinson
I now see this, in all forums and (I believe) all CNET sites;
http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/7196/newheaderbugvx7.jpg
CNET TV seems to OK, but some of the others I have visited have the same header.
Unlike you, I also get this in all forums. I'm using Firefox 3 with your modified CSS file.
I don't see this in IE7. In fact all seems OK there, except I have the adverts of course.
John I was going to contact you about the CSS file anyway. The one I use creates the vertical gray bar you can see down the right hand side. It is actually the 'shading' graphics effect for a box, but the box gets over-written when the rest of each page displays, except for that vertical remnant.
Any ideas? Did I break your css file?
Mark
The engineers did...
by John.Wilkinson - 8/16/08 8:18 AM
In reply to: John, FYI, what I now see. by MarkFlax
I've been watching them update the new layout for the past few days. They completely overhauled the new header (shrinking the header themselves to some degree, among other things), but as they tweaked it they also broke alignment, rearranged the order of the universal login elements, and at one point had the width of a column equal to about three characters. Some of the problems were magnified by my CSS file, and now that those issues have been fixed my CSS file needs updated for the new header. As to the vertical grey bar, that's part of the new header, but most of it is covered by the body of the page. (I reset the top margin offset to fix that.) After they solidified the update yesterday I sat down and updated the code locally, which I will be finalizing/posting this afternoon. Just hang in there.
John
P.S. Your screenshot demonstrates one of my undocumented tweaks...putting that Delete button back where it belongs! Drove me nuts until I fixed that alignment.
Thanks John.
by MarkFlax - 8/16/08 12:49 PM
In reply to: The engineers did... by John.Wilkinson
I will wait your new css file.
Mark
(NT) It's good. :)
by John.Wilkinson - 8/16/08 9:04 PM
In reply to: Thanks John. by MarkFlax
(NT) It's gone now.
by John.Wilkinson - 8/17/08 9:53 AM
In reply to: New bug in the "new" new header of the new site... by John.Wilkinson
I agree. The new interface does stink.
by ivandrago - 8/17/08 7:51 PM In reply to: CNET website changes by spacedalienThe old look of this site was just fine. This was a complete waste of the CNET web designers time. They could have used the time to improve on an already great interface. Now they are going to have to build up this new weak interface.
Universal login in dead on arrival...
by John.Wilkinson - 8/21/08 7:12 AM
In reply to: CNET website changes by spacedalien
Since yesterday it just displays "log in | join CNET" even though I am logged in, and clicking either link does nothing. Cross-browser issue on the new site, affecting all *.cnet.com pages. (download.com works.)
John
Someone also reported this also :(
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 8/21/08 9:54 AM
In reply to: Universal login in dead on arrival... by John.Wilkinson
Can you give me some specifics, John? Our team has been testing for a while now and can't reproduce this bug in IE6, 7, FF 2, and 3.
Any additional info will help. Thanks a bunch!
It's working for me now...
by John.Wilkinson - 8/21/08 10:10 AM
In reply to: Someone also reported this also :( by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
It was affecting Firefox 2/3, Opera 9, and Internet Explorer 7/8 beta. Same issue on every page for the cnet.com domain, but not download.com. Normally it flashes the login options for a second as the page loads then acknowledges me as John.Wilkinson, but it wasn't doing so and the Javascript login/join options were dead. I didn't try logging out and back in or deleting cookies to resolve it, but it's now evidently resolved itself, at least here.
John
P.S. I would like to note that whenever the Cnet 404 is given, the universal login does not acknowledge the user, only prompting him/her to login. It's been that way for as long as I can remember, though it would be nice to confirm that the user is still logged in, giving him/her the standard profile/logout options.
in regards to the CNET 404 page -login status
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 8/25/08 12:35 PM
In reply to: It's working for me now... by John.Wilkinson
P.S. I would like to note that whenever the Cnet 404 is given, the universal login does not acknowledge the user, only prompting him/her to login. It's been that way for as long as I can remember, though it would be nice to confirm that the user is still logged in, giving him/her the standard profile/logout options.
Yeah I'm not too sure why that is, but there is probably a reason behind it. I'll look into it. Thanks!
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