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The Minotaur
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 Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject: 1 |
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Hello all. The Grey Labyrinth is moving to a new web server very shortly. At the same time, I've also made some changes to the layout and the content management system. I've done a fair amount of testing so I don't expect any major problems.
If you find any problems once the site move is complete (broken images, missing pages, browser issues, etc.) please post to this thread. |
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Courk
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject: 2 |
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All of the Images at the top are missing (Grey Labyrinth, Puzzles, Archives, Links, About, Discussion, Interact, and Nerdware) Also, the links seem to Also, only Grey Labyrinth and Discussion seem to work. Puzzles goes to an index page instead of the pretty puzzle page.
Also, the image that says "Discussion Forums" seems grainy like it's been enlarged from a smaller picture.
I'm also not real thrilled with the gray on the sides of the screen, but that's an opinion, not a problem. |
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Courk
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:29 pm Post subject: 3 |
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| Ignore that post, I think I caught things in the middle of the update. I actually like the gray bars with the gradient, and the images are working. |
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Amb
Amb the Hitched.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:35 pm Post subject: 4 |
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| I'd like to see the size of the icons and title bar reduced. They are overbearing and using too much of the screen size. This would allow us to put the "Nerdware" icon back on the top as well. |
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Dented Ford
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:41 pm Post subject: 5 |
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| Amb wrote: |
| I'd like to see the size of the icons and title bar reduced. They are overbearing and using too much of the screen size. This would allow us to put the "Nerdware" icon back on the top as well. |
ditto.
Also the size of the ad bar isn't really optimum, it's too deep for the page - I know they have to be standard sizes, but is there any way it could be extended width-wise and made less deep instead?
Also, it's in the wrong place, and quite overly obtrusive - it would be better above the Discussion Forums heading and menu options. |
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Gomez*
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject: 6 |
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You know referee's gonna have a field day with this, don't you?  |
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Mackay
Saviour of Spiders
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:51 pm Post subject: 7 |
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| Gomez* wrote: |
| You know referee's gonna have a field day with this, don't you? |
I dunno, I think it looks more like "HIS" Grey Labyrinth than the previous incarnation. 
In any case, I think it's really pretty! |
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Quailman
His Postmajesty
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:35 pm Post subject: 8 |
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AAAAAAGGGHHH!!!!!
It's different!
AAAAAAGGGHHH!!!!! |
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Amb
Amb the Hitched.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:09 am Post subject: 9 |
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Also, we have lost the PALADIN connection. What was the L again?
I agree, can we put the ads up above the words "Discussion Forums" and the messaging bar? |
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Courk
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:18 am Post subject: 10 |
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| L was Links. |
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Courk
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:41 am Post subject: 11 |
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| On the About page, "Rubik's" is misspelled "Rubic's". |
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Nsof
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:43 am Post subject: 12 |
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| Amb wrote: |
| ... can we put the ads up above the words "Discussion Forums" and the messaging bar? |
Put them right next to groza, behind the m in 'Visitor Submitted Puzzles'.
how much money does it take to run the GL?
how does the GL make money from the ads?
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groza528
No Place Like Home
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:36 am Post subject: 13 |
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Hey! I don't want those things taking up all my space  |
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Beartalon
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:56 am Post subject: 14 |
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Is it possible to rearrange the Google ads layout? The "Ads by Google" tagline takes up more than one vertical line of text (as deep as the grey bar where the Legal link is). If the tagine was off to the left, it could be level with the ads and we reclaim that space.
When I am at forum level, there is a line "Users browsing this forum". When I'm viewing a topic, the space where that line appears is left empty. Can you collapse it when the view is topic, and only show the line when the view is forum-level?
I disagree that the ads should be moved up. Doing so would place the grey line and the grey box too close together.
The Interact, About, Legal, Privacy and Nerdware pages require left/right scrolling. The paragraphs do not wrap in the browser window. |
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The Minotaur
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:05 pm Post subject: 15 |
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| Beartalon wrote: |
| Is it possible to rearrange the Google ads layout? The "Ads by Google" tagline takes up more than one vertical line of text (as deep as the grey bar where the Legal link is). If the tagine was off to the left, it could be level with the ads and we reclaim that space. |
Nope, that's fixed by Google.
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| When I am at forum level, there is a line "Users browsing this forum". When I'm viewing a topic, the space where that line appears is left empty. Can you collapse it when the view is topic, and only show the line when the view is forum-level? |
I don't know, maybe one of our phpbb gurus can answer that.
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I disagree that the ads should be moved up. Doing so would place the grey line and the grey box too close together.
The Interact, About, Legal, Privacy and Nerdware pages require left/right scrolling. The paragraphs do not wrap in the browser window. |
I'm not seeing that behavior, but I did find a missing /span tag that I could imagine might cause that in some browsers. Should be fixed now. |
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Neo
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:06 pm Post subject: 16 |
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| Mackay wrote: |
| Gomez* wrote: |
| You know referee's gonna have a field day with this, don't you? |
I dunno, I think it looks more like "HIS" Grey Labyrinth than the previous incarnation.
In any case, I think it's really pretty! |
If ref has a problem, I'll just quote what Jeff from Fark.com said when they went through their own layout changes.
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RSA*
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:31 pm Post subject: 17 |
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are you going to quote it, or do I have to claim to have a problem with the layout first? |
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Neo
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject: 18 |
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| RSA* wrote: |
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are you going to quote it, or do I have to claim to have a problem with the layout first? |
Are you going to yell at everybody for changing YOUR Labyrinth?
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RSA*
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:00 pm Post subject: 19 |
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| Well, if that's what it takes, looking it up myself is less work I guess |
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Neo
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:05 pm Post subject: 20 |
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To satisfy your curiousity:
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| You'll get over it. |
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Antrax
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:53 am Post subject: 21 |
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If to reply a bit less callously, seeing as I was asked in PM about these:
I don't know the exact cost of hosting the GL on the new sever, but you can check our host's webpage, http://www.theplanet.com/ and get a feel for their pricing.
On the old server, if memory serves, hosting cost several dozen dollars a month, which Kevin has been paying out of his pocket for most of the time, assisted by donations from several members. However, seeing as donations have a tendency to stop unless members are constantly prodded, which would create a less pleasant atmosphere, the decision was made to go with Google ads, which are less of an eyesore.
I would assume the ad money goes towards paying server costs. I am unaware how much revenue these ads generate, especially since they've been up for only a couple of days. From my experience, these ads are usually enough to pay server bills.
As for the layout change, I'd like to remind people that the site still says "Site Design by wx3" on the bottom . Besides, based on past experience, Kevin is open to suggestions.
Please move further discussion to the appropriate forums, Site Problems and Site Design.
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Samadhi
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:10 am Post subject: 22 |
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I've updated the permissions for Site Design to 'registered'. Hopefully this will help direct conversation to that forum.
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Courk
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| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:11 am Post subject: 23 |
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| Can the ads on the puzzle pages go along the top? They bother me on the side. They don't actually interfere with puzzles, but I *feel* like they're interfering. |
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Courk
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| Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:34 pm Post subject: 24 |
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| On the Legal page, the icon at the bottom for linking to the GL is broken. |
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Beartalon
'Party line' kind of guy
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:10 am Post subject: 25 |
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| The Minotaur wrote: |
| Beartalon wrote: |
| The Interact, About, Legal, Privacy and Nerdware pages require left/right scrolling. The paragraphs do not wrap in the browser window. |
I'm not seeing that behavior, but I did find a missing /span tag that I could imagine might cause that in some browsers. Should be fixed now. |
Yes, it is now fixed for IE7. Thanks. |
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The Minotaur
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:45 pm Post subject: 26 |
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| Courk wrote: |
| On the Legal page, the icon at the bottom for linking to the GL is broken. |
Fixed, thanks. |
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Courk
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:06 am Post subject: 27 |
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Arc's not been letting me upload pictures:
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Warning: move_uploaded_file(/home/greylab/public_html///img/puzzles/olympic.jpg) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/greylab/public_html/wx3/arc2_1/includes/classes/arcfield.php on line 985
Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/phpdX3WYz' to '/home/greylab/public_html///img/puzzles/olympic.jpg' in /home/greylab/public_html/wx3/arc2_1/includes/classes/arcfield.php on line 985
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/greylab/public_html/wx3/arc2_1/includes/classes/arcfield.php:985) in /home/greylab/public_html/wx3/arc2_1/wysiwygpro3/core/libs/wproSession.class.php on line 301
Failed to save this Puzzle: Failed to move file to upload directory (possible permission problem?) |
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Macros
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:42 am Post subject: 28 |
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the link buttons along the top *in the forum view) have a dlightly draker background than their surroundings, not end of world but distracting non the less
(the top 6 icons, above the dark grey bar with legal and stuff in it)
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Courk
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:30 pm Post subject: 29 |
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| It's something to do with how IE handles png files, apparently. It looks fine in firefox. |
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Tahnan
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| Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:50 am Post subject: 30 |
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Hey, er. I just spent three weeks thinking the site had simply gone away, because the page I had bookmarked, http://www.greylabyrinth.com/index.htm , gave a 404 error. It was only just now that, on an idle chance, I tried it without the index.htm.
In case other sites still link to the old page, that ought to be aliased to the new front page. |
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Jack_Ian
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| Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject: 31 |
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| Tahnan wrote: |
Hey, er. I just spent three weeks thinking the site had simply gone away, because the page I had bookmarked, http://www.greylabyrinth.com/index.htm , gave a 404 error. It was only just now that, on an idle chance, I tried it without the index.htm.
In case other sites still link to the old page, that ought to be aliased to the new front page. |
3 weeks!
Not like you to take 3 weeks to figure out a simple puzzle like that.
It only took the rest of us a few minutes.  |
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The Great Crep'er
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject: 32 |
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Ugh, this is more of a joking concern, there was a John Mccain ad that flashed above the pages. Does the forum really want 100 more years of war?
Also, maybe controversy among more of the democratic members of the place, but I understand why the ads are there, just more of a slight noticing.
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