Hey Folks!
Another week, another weekly chat, your place for stuff that may not warrant a full thread or stuff that is just going on right now that you want to share.
As per title, I'm really tired today and I'm not 100% sure why (although it could be the 5:30am start today). Anyway in forum news, things are moving forwards, my forum theme currently looks like this:
Which is not the most enticing prospect, but I was looking at this: dribbble.com/shots/4729767-Forum-UI-Design/attachments/1066125?mode=media (which I think you can see without logging in??) and I thought I'd try a similar idea for the thread list of individual cards. One of the layout changes I did earlier in the year was to make the site more like it was way way way back when we started with less white space, everything much tighter in the table etc. however that was just crazy noisy, and I ended up reducing the information down and it became less functional. Which is part of what caused the pause in updating stuff. Anyway still experimenting, so let's see.
In other news the 996 had a very bad rattle on the exhaust, which turned out to be a snapped bolt no longer securing the chrome tip, which is actually a hefty bit of metal. So part of Saturday was spent laying down on my pebble/stone driveway with a Dremel carefully chopping up the remainder of the bolt so I could get the tip removed. Which reminded me why a) I need to finish making space in the garage and b) why I carpeted my previous garage. However once done I drove a big old round trip on Sunday for a roast lunch with Jason who does our show video stuff (and appears on some of the RR Youtube channel videos) and Cal from Retropower. Good day... may have encouraged me in to action to restart the RR Podcast stuff.
Anyway, how are things with you?
Previous Thread: forum.retro-rides.org/thread/227226/chat-thread-clever-title-wc
Another week, another weekly chat, your place for stuff that may not warrant a full thread or stuff that is just going on right now that you want to share.
As per title, I'm really tired today and I'm not 100% sure why (although it could be the 5:30am start today). Anyway in forum news, things are moving forwards, my forum theme currently looks like this:
Which is not the most enticing prospect, but I was looking at this: dribbble.com/shots/4729767-Forum-UI-Design/attachments/1066125?mode=media (which I think you can see without logging in??) and I thought I'd try a similar idea for the thread list of individual cards. One of the layout changes I did earlier in the year was to make the site more like it was way way way back when we started with less white space, everything much tighter in the table etc. however that was just crazy noisy, and I ended up reducing the information down and it became less functional. Which is part of what caused the pause in updating stuff. Anyway still experimenting, so let's see.
In other news the 996 had a very bad rattle on the exhaust, which turned out to be a snapped bolt no longer securing the chrome tip, which is actually a hefty bit of metal. So part of Saturday was spent laying down on my pebble/stone driveway with a Dremel carefully chopping up the remainder of the bolt so I could get the tip removed. Which reminded me why a) I need to finish making space in the garage and b) why I carpeted my previous garage. However once done I drove a big old round trip on Sunday for a roast lunch with Jason who does our show video stuff (and appears on some of the RR Youtube channel videos) and Cal from Retropower. Good day... may have encouraged me in to action to restart the RR Podcast stuff.
Anyway, how are things with you?
Previous Thread: forum.retro-rides.org/thread/227226/chat-thread-clever-title-wc