In case you didn't see the news item on the front page, I think I've satisfied all outstanding/reasonable requests about the forums. :-)

I think the thing about message sorting was for the thread listing page, not the actual thread's postings... That totally confused me for a few minutes.

The thread locking is a great idea, though. Good job. Thanks, Psion.

(Cosmetically speaking, I don't like the white space between each message... that's new right? I find it a bit distracting.)

- taubz

Thanks for the changes, but I agree with taubz, the thread listings need to have newer threads at the top as well.

As for the stylesheet addition, I've now been able to complete my extremely gothic TPU theme. If anyone's interested, you can find it at http://www.the7thseal.org/tpublack.css ----- please don't just link to it, actually copy it and upload it somewhere else, as I can't have people hogging bandwidth everytime they view a TPU page.

Just as a further note, I've already typed 3 reponses to very old posts (which I fortunately realised before I posted), as having messages upside down quite confused me. Anyway, I think I may be getting used to it now....*sigh*, why do you play with my head so?

So, about the white space, what's the proper CSS way to get SOME space between messages, but not this much? Hopefully something in the message class properties, so style sheets can control it easily....

And by "newer threads," do you mean sorted by first post or last post? I never have more than a page's worth of threads displayed at once, as I have it set to only show those which have posts in the last week, so this doesn't seem like that big of an issue to me, hence the assumption that it wasn't what people were asking for.

Get rid of the <p /> between messages first...

They're too close together for my tastes without it.

Can we not make them seperate cells in a table, and then just increase the cellspacing?

Psion, try the padding: property on your message class, ie:

.message { padding-bottom: 3px }

or something to that effect. I think that should work.

You can probably see that that didn't work. Any other suggestions? I'm really not too keen on messing with any HTML or related formatting. :-)

Yes... I'm emailing Psion with a new CSS stylesheet that should improve the look of the message boards.

- taubz

The new stylesheet is pretty damn nice!

Thanks.

Can we not match the Blue bar in the middle, seperating the messages with the purpley color outlining the messages?

Excellent idea. Psion, here's the change:

.message
{
background: #d7d7ff;
color: #000000;
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,serif;
font-size: 10pt;
padding: 1em 1em 1em 1.5em;
border-bottom: thin solid #9999ff;
border-top: thin solid blue;
margin: 0px -.5em 0px -.5em;
}

That wasn't quite right, but I fixed it!

Oh, and from the "why not" department, I've copied sphinX's tpublack.css stylesheet to the URL http://www.tpu.org/tpublack.css, so feel free to set that as your theme if you prefer.

When I'm using a non-default stylesheet, the switch to standard stylesheet link on the front page (the one associated with the old netscape warning) comes up. It sounds like a bug.

Thank you Psion, the purple bar looks just lovely now.