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I asked two or three times previously how can I alter the forum in Ff as on my monitor I have a black line down each side of the page and have to scroll down past all the adverts before getting to the posts. I did put two screen grabs on the beta but got NO reply. I use a 17" tft with a resolution 1280 x 1024. Works OK in IE except for this eyeball aching text size. On NO other forum do I have this problem.

Using Firefox with the following address ( [url]http://beta.photoradar.com[/url] ) photoradar virtually fills my 24" screen, just small black line on the sides approx 20mm. Text size is perfect.

However if I remove the "beta" ( [url]http://www.photoradar.com/[/url] ) part of the address, half the screen is black, which is totally useless.

Might pop in occassionally just to see what's what.

As you say most other forums fill the screen

I have a 20" 1600 x 1200 screen and have the same problem. Tried the 'beta' adress too but still the same on both IE and firefox. When i move it over to a smaller 2nd screen, it fills that OK. Had exactly the same problem with the DCM site. Don't get this with hardly any other sites, including smaller less professional ones, so surely it can't be that difficult to sort out??

As you use Firefox you can install the Stylish plugin from here: [url]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108[/url]

You can then create your own stylesheet to overwrite the one in use here.

For example in the one I've just created I have:

[CODE]
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("www.photoradar.com") {

#container { width: 1230px !important; }
#main-col { width: 900px !important; }
.page { width: 900px !important; }
}[/CODE]

With that the site fills the screen a bit better at 1280px wide resolution. All I've done is increased the width of three selectors by 270px. If you have a higher resolution you just need to increase the width of those 3 selectors by a corresponding amount (eg for 1600px wide you'd need to increase by an extra 320px each).

Its even easier than that, you simply press the control key and the + key and the screen zooms in, you can zoom out again at any time by using Ctrl - , hope this helps.

Bob

[QUOTE=littlebro;2411]I asked two or three times previously how can I alter the forum in Ff as on my monitor I have a black line down each side of the page and have to scroll down past all the adverts before getting to the posts. I did put two screen grabs on the beta but got NO reply. I use a 17" tft with a resolution 1280 x 1024. Works OK in IE except for this eyeball aching text size. On NO other forum do I have this problem.[/QUOTE]
The forum software isn't the problem, that seems to work without any issues. The problem lies with the website coding that's been written by a bunch of amateurs... there's spelling mistakes in the code, referrals to domains that cannot exist, and accesses to two messy CSS files (not to mention two javascript files that's given one user a security issue).

Apparently, the coders are aware of these issues.

... and that's it, so far.

In the meantime, an alleged "small number of users" become more and more alienated.

[QUOTE=ap4a;2422]As you use Firefox you can install the Stylish plugin from here: [url]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108[/url]

You can then create your own stylesheet to overwrite the one in use here.

For example in the one I've just created I have:

[CODE]
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("www.photoradar.com") {

#container { width: 1230px !important; }
#main-col { width: 900px !important; }
.page { width: 900px !important; }
}[/CODE]

With that the site fills the screen a bit better at 1280px wide resolution. All I've done is increased the width of three selectors by 270px. If you have a higher resolution you just need to increase the width of those 3 selectors by a corresponding amount (eg for 1600px wide you'd need to increase by an extra 320px each).[/QUOTE]
... but we, the end-users, should not need to use any third-party scripts or applications to resolve a problem that wouldn't be there in the first place, had the website been written by people with a clue in the first place.

[QUOTE=Hybrid;2436]The forum software isn't the problem, that seems to work without any issues. The problem lies with the website coding that's been written by a bunch of amateurs... there's spelling mistakes in the code, referrals to domains that cannot exist, and accesses to two messy CSS files (not to mention two javascript files that's given one user a security issue).

Apparently, the coders are aware of these issues.

... and that's it, so far.

In the meantime, an alleged "small number of users" become more and more alienated.


... but we, the end-users, should not need to use any third-party scripts or applications to resolve a problem that wouldn't be there in the first place, had the website been written by people with a clue in the first place.[/QUOTE]


I agree with you 100%.

I may be missing something, but I'm not prepared to keep logging-on, everytime I visit or want to make a post.

Harry

[QUOTE=hssutton;2452]I may be missing something, but I'm not prepared to keep logging-on, everytime I visit or want to make a post.

Harry[/QUOTE]

Nope, you're not missing anything. That's just one of the many unfixed bugs on this site.

Thanks for the replys guys, they obviously dont give a s$%& so I might come back in 12 months to see if its still going. Probably not, Oh and control + doesnt work on Firefox.

[QUOTE=littlebro;2485]Thanks for the replys guys, they obviously dont give a s$%& so I might come back in 12 months to see if its still going. Probably not, Oh and control + doesnt work on Firefox.[/QUOTE]

Ctrl + works fine on mine FireFox V 3.5.2, :)