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To: Scott Lux who wrote (2251)	1/26/2001 2:06:37 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3372

Can SI change the "Previous" & "Next" tabs , and have them moved over to the left opposite where they are placed now? They would be great moved over above the "To" and "From" , where the poster's names are , and the beginning of the sentence and text of the post begins , plus where it is in the natural interest of your eyes to go in the first place. ....in other words like Yahoo message board layouts, which i have always thought RageBull and SI could do better to emulate Yahoo in that regard , sans the "Pooperie" that's often posted there. It is a compact layout , with an economy of motion theme , and an interest of eye~orientation thing. If they could get it done by the weekend , it wouldn't be too much to ask ? Tia, ;-) you guys must have your hands full !

To: Scott Lux who wrote (2251)	1/26/2001 11:10:05 AM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 3372

scott thanks for taking care of the personal profile html problem in classic. good job. :) mark

To: Scott Lux who wrote (2251)	1/26/2001 2:48:42 PM
From: Daniel	Respond to of 3372

Another problem: On the reply page (http://www.siliconinvestor.com/msg_reply.gsp?replytoid=xxx), the message-entry text box now seems to be awfully wide. (Classic SI mode, Netscape 4.76 on Windows.) It makes other parts of the page even wider. I've widened my browser window to two-thirds of my 21-inch monitor (at 1152x864, and smaller-than-default font settings in Netscape), and it's still not wide enough to display the whole page. Imagine if someone had only a smaller monitor. (Remember that not everyone simply uses a single full-screen browser window. Some of us want to be able to open multiple browser windows to compare different pages or different sites. A 21-inch monitor is wide enough for two full-size sheets of paper, so a web page, especially text-based pages, should easily fit in half of that. Classic SI message pages almost fit. The (apparently) changed message-entry page clearly does not.) Can you reduce the text box's width by about a third? That would seem to put it at a reasonable width. (Note that lines that fit unbroken in the text box don't fit (as unbroken lines) in displayed messages (at least in Classic SI mode). That would seem to indicate that the text box should be narrower to avoid taking significantly more width to enter a message than to read messages.) Additionally, you seem to put everything in the page in a table, which means everything else is at least as wide as the text box (the widest thing in the table). Don't put everything in a table! Let other parts of the page stretch, shrink, and wrap to fit the user's preferred window width even if some parts have to be fixed width. That way, users have to resize windows or scroll horizontally only for the part of the page that can't wrap to fit. P.S. The text-entry box does need to be longer. Thanks, Daniel