Fix for Forum Area and Removing Sidebar

[Solsbury Krill]

Awesome, now my eyes are no longer bleeding too! .

Good deal! No one wants anyone to suffer with bleeding eyes. Happy posting.

[Dreamy]

The layout could be fluid, but only up to a point really. If it was completely fluid such that the forum expanded to the full width of the view port in the browser window on larger monitors full paragraphs would be rendered as only a few lines, if not only a couple or single lines in some instances. This may suit some people, but generally that would be poor typography layout. On the flip side of course is the current look, with a very compressed text area to accommodate the sidebar. That design compels the designer to use a small font since a larger font would render only a handful of words per line. The drawback of the smaller font is that it becomes difficult for many users to read. I think many of the forum users are such in age that vision problems affect us that it naturally seems like thoughtful consideration of usability to the audience is wise. Usability goes a long way to growing and maintaining a community on a website. I've a business that deals in webdesign and I can say, though it probably goes without saying, that there are a lot of considerations that have to be worked through when coming up with a design. It's a big challenge and I respect individuals that get it right or are tasked with getting it right.

I understand what you are saying because I have a small forum of my own that I do at times adjust the width and the columns. I personally would like the forum section a bit wider but all in all no big deal for me. I post on so many forums of various formats I can adjust to most anything except black background ones. lol

I don't notice the type being smaller just the skinny forum size. There are a few flukes(my profile tab is unclickable) I detect but nothing too troublesome at this time. I have been through these forum changes before and just learn to ride the wave. In time one gets use to most of the changes.

[Solsbury Krill]

I understand what you are saying because I have a small forum of my own that I do at times adjust the width and the columns. I personally would like the forum section a bit wider but all in all no big deal for me. I post on so many forums of various formats I can adjust to most anything except black background ones. lol

I don't notice the type being smaller just the skinny forum size. There are a few flukes(my profile tab is unclickable) I detect but nothing too troublesome at this time. I have been through these forum changes before and just learn to ride the wave. In time one gets use to most of the changes.

Hmm, maybe the font just appeared smaller to me with the new layout.

Anyways, I think most of realize designers have really tough and oftentimes under-appreciated job given the considerations they must juggle and the quality of feedback which they must contend, so I agree with others who say we must be understanding while they are hopefully working to address some of the concerns raised.

[Dreamy]

Hmm, maybe the font just appeared smaller to me with the new layout.

Anyways, I think most of realize designers have really tough and oftentimes under-appreciated job given the considerations they must juggle and the quality of feedback which they must contend, so I agree with others who say we must be understanding while they are hopefully working to address some of the concerns raised.

Yeah they usually work it all out in time. They could have just kept the forums down while working out the kinks but the powers that be chose to allow us access during the fixing so it's all good to me. Patience grasshoppers. lol

[Spiked101]

Thanks OP for this. I know the forum is a work in progress and I'm sure there will be improvements. I also don't have ads in the sidebar...but this was a great, fast and easy fix for now. It took like 20 seconds.

[drgray7]

Fantastic and quick fix!!! Thanks, OP!

[JayJay]

Hmm, maybe the font just appeared smaller to me with the new layout.

Anyways, I think most of realize designers have really tough and oftentimes under-appreciated job given the considerations they must juggle and the quality of feedback which they must contend, so I agree with others who say we must be understanding while they are hopefully working to address some of the concerns raised.

The font is not smaller- the surrounding "symbols", etc are bigger.

[Camp]

Worked for me Thanks!

[sironin]

It'd be really nice if the forum width went back to a percentage rather than a set pixel size. It looks pretty empty/wasteful on any resolution above 1024 by 768, which has been fairly low resolution for a good decade now. Best practices in design should have eliminated the notion of setting a fixed width on the primary content area ages ago.

I understand the need for advertising, even though many of us never even download any of it thanks to browser plugins that eliminate such bandwidth wasting nuisance, but the sidebar content could be made optional without eliminating any advertising space.

[JimGP20]

I understand Lee's concern, but really, there is only 1 add at the top of the side bar and everything under it is just posts from the various sub forums. This will be my last post from IE, as I have already installed the fix into Firefox and it works great. Thanks to the OP.

["Doc"]

I'm a Safari use so I guess I'm SOL. Firefox has some glitch in it have to reload frequently and Chrome lacks all my saved sites. But for me the biggest problem isn't the squashed post but rather the "forum thread/title" page has 12 thread on it, thats it.

[JohnRandolph]

Step 7: Enjoy browsing the Hannity Forums with the updated look and features with no more sidebar!

Hey, thanks bunches!