PLEASE!!! EVERYONE!!! ONE FORMAT!!!

Posted by: NSR

PLEASE!!! EVERYONE!!! ONE FORMAT!!! - 02/02/02 08:46 PM

TO ALL POSTS:

Please, can't there be ONE FORMAT for posting on this forum. I am so tired of using the scroll bar. Why is it that some post don't have it stretched a mile wide and others do? BEBOP, your posts are always a mile wide and anyone who replies is the same. We need a standard format BADLY!!!
Posted by: Nigel

Re: PLEASE!!! EVERYONE!!! ONE FORMAT!!! - 02/03/02 01:13 AM

The messages will always try and format to the width of your screen. The one exception, which is the problem that you are referring to, is if someone has one long word in their posting that is wider than the your screen window in which case a scroll bar is provided. It is BEBOP's signature with the long URL to the forum that is causing this on pages he posts on. If one posting forces a wide page then all other messages on that page have to follow the same width.

Maybe BEBOP can change it to a shorter version http://www.synthzone.com/cgi-bin/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&number=25 which will still lead to this forum and avoid the page width problem.
Posted by: Nimrod

Re: PLEASE!!! EVERYONE!!! ONE FORMAT!!! - 02/03/02 10:05 AM

Or even like this Nigel:

Technics Discussion

Posted by: BEBOP

Re: PLEASE!!! EVERYONE!!! ONE FORMAT!!! - 02/03/02 10:19 AM

Thank you to NSR and Nigel for bringing this dumb error to my attention. I was sent the addy by another member as being better then the one I was using. I have changed it now so lets see what it does. I am here to learn also and learning by the day :-)
I only use the signature to help new people find their way here as I send out a ton of emails every day to potential new members. When they see a post of mine here with my signature then they do know they got to the right place.
Thanks again for pointing this out to me

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Posted by: NSR

Re: PLEASE!!! EVERYONE!!! ONE FORMAT!!! - 02/03/02 11:58 AM

Thanks, BEBOP for understanding this problem.

I want to commend you for all the fine work you have done. We all appreciate your energy and dedication to making this a great forum. Special thanks goes out to Nigel - It is such a pleasure not having to wait for slow downloads to bring up this site as was the case of the other site that I won't mention by name. :-)
Posted by: technicsplayer

Re: PLEASE!!! EVERYONE!!! ONE FORMAT!!! - 02/03/02 12:52 PM

I agree, Nigel does a fanatastic job with the zone.

About Bebop's signature, I can see the point on mails but on each post on the forum it is just a waste of bandwidth.
Click the link on the mail and you are here. You do not have to open a post from Bebop with this l-o-n-g signature to know that.
Posted by: Nigel

Re: PLEASE!!! EVERYONE!!! ONE FORMAT!!! - 02/04/02 11:26 PM

Thanks so much for the kind words of support. Being the sole maintainer of Synth Zone I do what I can to keep things running as smoothly as possible. It's great to see this forum spring to life recently so thanks to all you members for helping to create such a useful Technics information resource.