Slight tuneup for top blue nav bar to give it a gradient backdrop.

I believe this blue of the top menu is not according to the screen
More there is the blue of the Window system!
That makes too more different blue in the same time!
Maybe something like that will be more fit ?

Hi Pilou, that looks nice but maybe a little bit too light. With white text the background behind it needs to be somewaht dark to have contrast...

- Michael

maybe like this :) more dark

Hi Pilou, I think that's better than your previous one, but the one I currently have matches the header on the moi3d.com home page better, that's one reason why it is that color... I think I'm going to stick with the current color.

- Michael

There is an another solution ;)
a very little button on the left of "Moi home" like * permit to have a variety of colors when you click on it !
(only for the up menu) so every body can choose his color :)

Hi Pilou, can you add that to the wishlist?

It sounds like it would be fun, but I don't think I have enough time to do that right now.

There are also some images used on that home page, so I would have to create several different versions of those for each color.

If you'd like to customize it, you can try this Firefox plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108, which allows you override the default styles on a web site and specify your own.

I think it would be possible for you to use that to customize the MoI web page if you really really want to do that right now.

- Michael

Updated login page with title at the top.

Updated header/title and background of forms (seen on login page, options pages, etc...)

Unfunk-ified buttons, switched to just use standard browser buttons instead of purple buttons.

Added ;)

Simplified attachments dialog a bit more.

Tuned up forum search - by default the date range is everything. Previously the default search range was only back 1 month.

Fixed some problems with search keyword parsing.

Changed mysql "stop list" so that it is possible to search on more terms for example "second".

Some more tune-ups to forum search - expanded the amount of text shown for each item in search results left-side column.

Fixed incorrect display of some characters like > displaying as > in the results column.

Overall the forum search seems to be working a lot better now.

Updates to attachments:

New "Insert images inline" button, which appears on the attachment dialog after images have been uploaded. It shows up below the list of attachments, next to the Delete button. This button can be pushed to copy all the image attachments into your message as tags if you want the images to show up as full size mixed in with your text instead of the default method which shows them as thumbnails all at the end of your message. This replaces the old method of copy/pasting the URL in order to do this.

There is now a warning displayed if you fill in the Filename: field, but close the attachments window before pushing "Upload".

BMP files are disabled, and there is a message displayed to use JPG or PNG files instead.

Please let me know if you encounter any problems with attachments.

- Michael

Seems easy :)



and working like a charm :)

Thanks for testing it Pilou!

Since the automatic thumbnail images were added, it seems like for most regular cases those work best.

But I still wanted to have a way to get them inline into the message more easily than the old copy/paste method.

This will sure save me a lot of copy/paste of the image addresses! :)

- Michael

Updated header at top and bottom of thread list.

Tweaked color of active thread in the thread list to match the color of the message header.

I think that's just about all that I am going to do for cosmetic tweaks to the forum.

The main things left that I am going to mess with are the "Start" page (the one that says "Welcome to the MoI forum" on the right-hand side when you first enter the forum, I may be able to put some useful stuff over here), and also trying to get the forum indexed by Google better.

- Michael

Shouldn't the thread items have an indents at both left and right side so the header nad items border would align to each other? ;) -Petr

Hi Petr, I'm not too sure about that because every indent on that lower part takes away some space for the thread title text. I really want to try and maximize the area for that text so that as many cases as possible may fit on a single line...

I originally tried not indenting that new header part, but when the browser window was maximized the left side was totally flush with the left edge of the screen and the roundy part didn't quite look right squished over there.

That's the reasoning behind that...

I'm not sure that it looks bad enough to mess with - if it did need to be changed I would probably want to leave the list with no padding and change that top bar to be just a rectangular block that also had not padding instead of a roundy thing.

- Michael

Ok, I think I've got everything set up now so that Google will be able to discover every message thread in the forum and add them all to its index.

Previously just some messages were indexed.

That may take a few days to finish completely. Once it is finished being indexed, then you will be able to use Google to search the forum as another alternative.

From the Google search page, use the additional keyword site:moi3d.com to limit the search to stuff just on this website (including forum, docs and wiki), or site:moi3d.com/forum to only search the forum and not other stuff.

- Michael

Tricky tip ;)

Updated the forum intro page - show a welcome message, and also links to the wiki resources and FAQ pages, and a search box for using Google search.

It looks like it will take a few more days before Google will finish indexing the entire forum.

This now clears off the list of everything that I wanted to add to the forum... All done!

- Michael