I am glad to hear that it was a joke - I thought we were heading backwards there rapidly.

Sorry to hear about the colour blindness. The colour on the first one is a fairly violent lilac I am afraid. I would need sunglasses.... and some Panadol after a few minutes!

The thread contrast is good on this one.

https://machinenation.forumakers.com/portal.htm?theme_id=106061

Unfortunately the font size on the portal/latest topics is small for most of them. The nature of free forums is such that they disallow FTP. That is the case here. So we can't upload code to enlarge the font.

I like this one.

Thats a far clearer layout. Excellent

Wow! I can see again...

It's very snazzy. Makes my long food posts look like short novels though

Ah well. Worth it.

Are ye definitely sure ye don't like this one ?

https://machinenation.forumakers.com/portal.htm?theme_id=103049

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

Are ye definitely sure ye don't like this one ?

https://machinenation.forumakers.com/portal.htm?theme_id=103049

Aaaaghhh - it hurts!!!

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

Are ye definitely sure ye don't like this one ?

https://machinenation.forumakers.com/portal.htm?theme_id=103049

The gods of internet moderators would surely curse you

What ? No pleasing some people. It's Girly isn't it ?

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

What ? No pleasing some people. It's Girly isn't it ?

Girlies are not taking the blame for that, thanks all the same.

Kate P wrote:

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

What ? No pleasing some people. It's Girly isn't it ?

Girlies are not taking the blame for that, thanks all the same.

I know. But it was an interesting experience.

Here it is again Kate.

https://machinenation.forumakers.com/portal.htm?theme_id=103049

I know you love it.

Thanks for the warning - I'll just grab my sunglasses before I click on the link.

I just noticed also on the Irish Picture thread that there's no way to scroll down through the previous posts with this layout. Hardly terminal but worth pointing out...

I didn't notice that. Are you sure you are not imagining it. Try it with the sunglasses off ?

The King of the Trolls wrote:

This is a very pretty skin alright. The last one was a lot more inert in comparison.

Any ideas what we'll replace the phpbb banner at the top with?

Geaarcogs Audi. love gearcogs.

I think someone (Kate ?) was asking about changing the size of the font before which seems cannot be done. You can still change the size of the font on your browser though by going to View (in firefox) and Text Size. You can adjust the size of the text there.

Wtf is with the new tagline? Are you trying to fit the whole site up there?

And why no mention of Business and Finance?

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

Wtf is with the new tagline? Are you trying to fit the whole site up there?

And why no mention of Business and Finance?

Sorry EV, tend to agree with Ard-T. Way too long.
Machine Nation - A Look Under the Nation's Bonnet is good and should sum it up. Down to posters to develop the various subject areas then.

Atticus wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

Wtf is with the new tagline? Are you trying to fit the whole site up there?

And why no mention of Business and Finance?

Sorry EV, tend to agree with Ard-T. Way too long.
Machine Nation - A Look Under the Nation's Bonnet is good and should sum it up. Down to posters to develop the various subject areas then.

Thanks for the support, Atticus. I like the brevity and clarity of "A look under the Nation's Bonnet". At the moment it looks a mess.

I've been wracking my brain over the last few days to come up with something else and really, I think A Look Under the Nation's Bonnet is great. If you wanted to add something underneath that, you could, but it's probably redundant.

But could you shove it up a couple of mm because it's very difficult to read where it is - as if it slipped a little drunkenly. Put it on the blue line above?

Auditor #9 wrote:

Is it not in the right place now? - it fits perfectly for me now into the big blue bit at the top. I included business and finance as well Ard-T and I'd like to squeeze a bit more in - maybe a word or two about women's lib? That should get a few more punters...

You need to take that 2nd tablet now, friend!!
Seriously the site is very promising and I havent had time yet to post properly. But I see some really good possibilities for it.

Auditor #9 wrote:

Is it not in the right place now? - it fits perfectly for me now into the big blue bit at the top. I included business and finance as well Ard-T and I'd like to squeeze a bit more in - maybe a word or two about women's lib? That should get a few more punters...

Ah, now he wants world domination.

On my screen the words Under ... are on a white line below the nice big blue box and are bisected by the blue line at the bottom of the nice big blue box.

Have you not hooked your laptop up to a Sony 32" 100 Hz LCD yet? It does this place justice, I tell ya.

Mmmm.

Auditor, when I Google the site I only get a result if I look for 'Machine Nation bonnet'. Somehow this is lacking in gravitas. Is there anything that can be done?

cactus flower wrote:

Mmmm.

Auditor, when I Google the site I only get a result if I look for 'Machine Nation bonnet'. Somehow this is lacking in gravitas. Is there anything that can be done?

Exactly - no gravitas. If you suggest a word with gravitas then I'll put it up there and you'll then be able to google that word instead.

I can't think of any words with gravitas...

Try 'gravitas' as a word