Hi guys,

For those of you that are not so eagle eyed - cast your eyes up to the top of your screen now. You should spot some additional site content categories that have been slowly appearing in recent weeks.

Of course, in an ideal world we’d have got all this nailed some time ago, but we want to make a professional job of building this site, and these things do take time and have to be fitted around other priorities.

The official home page for this site is now [url=http://www.3am-solutions.co.uk/community/]http://www.3am-solutions.co.uk/community/[/url], and if you take a quick look there you’ll that this site already has much more to offer than this discussion forum alone.

Already launched is a new development news section, a recommended links section which is well worth a look, and a new user gallery.  Coming soon are new product tutorials, bonus tools and a knowledgebase.

Any entry in any of these sections can be commented on, and I would welcome your comments particularly in the recommended links and gallery sections.

Any community member may submit images to the user galleries simply by sending an e-mail to a specified e-mail address. Full instructions on how to do this can be found .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

The user gallery is a great way to hear the views of other community members on your work - positive or otherwise. Now don’t be shy - let’s see some of your work.

Yeah, noticed that it’s been growing.  Good stuff.  Just wondering if the formatting will be improved?  It looks like there’s no CSS or whatever.  Mind you, it’s the content that counts.

Peter Cook - 25 April 2007 11:04 PM

Just wondering if the formatting will be improved?  It looks like there’s no CSS or whatever.

Eek! The formatting? One thing we want to pride ourselves on is the design and layout of the site (and the content of course). In fact the site is entirely driven by CSS with a MySQL back end, so I am a little puzzled by your comments.

Could you drop me a few screenshots of what the site looks like at your end? I think something is going wrong somewhere between here and Brisbane!

Bruce Harfield - 26 April 2007 07:13 AM

Eek! The formatting? One thing we want to pride ourselves on is the design and layout of the site (and the content of course). In fact the site is entirely driven by CSS with a MySQL back end, so I am a little puzzled by your comments.

Could you drop me a few screenshots of what the site looks like at your end? I think something is going wrong somewhere between here and Brisbane!

Yeah, that’s what I thought and everything else looks good but this is what I’m seeing…

Ok - that’s ugly! I see what you mean.

This is what it should look like. A definite improvement I think you will agree!

OK, firstly thanks for mentioning it - I was not aware of any problems. A few questions:

1) How does the forum look? Are you also seeing formatting problems there? The forum uses a different CSS file.
2) COuld you try refreshing your page, and perhaps clearing your browser cache.
3) Do you have any CSS settings in your browser which are overriding the site CSS?
4) What browser are you using (including version number)

Anybody else having similar problems?

Bruce Harfield - 26 April 2007 07:24 AM

Ok - that’s ugly! I see what you mean.

Well, being a longtime web user I thought it was quite quaint and a nice throwback to the good old days

Bruce Harfield - 26 April 2007 07:24 AM

This is what it should look like. A definite improvement I think you will agree!

Yeah, definately.

Bruce Harfield - 26 April 2007 07:24 AM

1) How does the forum look? Are you also seeing formatting problems there? The forum uses a different CSS file.

I suspect there might be a pathing issue to the CSS file.  The forum looks great.

Bruce Harfield - 26 April 2007 07:24 AM

2) COuld you try refreshing your page, and perhaps clearing your browser cache.

It’s been like this from the outset and a [CTRL]+F5 doesn’t fix it.  I’ll try culling my temporary internet files in a second.

Bruce Harfield - 26 April 2007 07:24 AM

3) Do you have any CSS settings in your browser which are overriding the site CSS?

Not that I can think of.  It should be a pretty stock setup but I’ll have a look.

Bruce Harfield - 26 April 2007 07:24 AM

4) What browser are you using (including version number)

Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 with Service Pack 2

Peter - could you try again? I have made a minor adjustment.

Nah, still the same sorry

Don’t forget the F5 key each time you try this by the way.

Does this problem affect only the gallery, or also the home page, links secion and development news section? Again - the gallery uses an additional CSS file.

Bruce Harfield - 26 April 2007 10:25 AM

Don’t forget the F5 key each time you try this by the way.

Yeah, tried that.  Tried F5 and [CTRL] + F5.  Dumped my temporary internet files too.

Bruce Harfield - 26 April 2007 10:25 AM

Does this problem affect only the gallery, or also the home page, links secion and development news section? Again - the gallery uses an additional CSS file.

The forum is fine but the others all appear like I posted earlier.

Yeah - I’ve got the same view as Peter for the Development News, Galley and Links. I just assumed that was what the pages should look like !!! Forum looks fine for me thou.

regards Mark

OK, I think I’ve found the problem - a file permissions issue. This would have affected pretty much everybody.

Could you both try again?

Sorted

Bruce Harfield - 26 April 2007 11:19 AM

Could you both try again?

Pages are looking much better now. Thanks for fixing.

While viewing some pics in the galley, I tried posting some comments but kept getting the message “you can’t post….”. See attached. I’ve tried from my network connection and modem connection (which normally fixes those issues) but I still can’t post messages ?? 

Thanks Peter for speaking up about this. I fear this would have gone unnoticed for quite some time otherwise.

Despite the retro throwback to the good old days of early HTML, this is not the kind of experience that we had intended for this site!

Take another look around now that CSS is enabled. It’ll be like that moment you had a colour television for the first time - quite a revelation I would imagine….

Mark Parkinson - 26 April 2007 11:38 AM

While viewing some pics in the galley, I tried posting some comments but kept getting the message “you can’t post….”.

OK - another permissions issue. Hold fire - I’m on it…