Welcome All to the Newly Updated SZ Forum!

Great to see that SZ retained its now 'signature' background and color scheme, but now with some nifty newly added/enhanced features. Right off, I especially appreciate the new 'preview post' feature which I trust will greatly eliminate members from having to edit/delete what they posted later on.

Nigel, thanks for making this such a smooth transition, at least from the member's POV. I can only imagine the amount of work it involved on your end, so thanks again for everything you do in support of our unique arranger keyboard musician community. May Synthzone continue to move upward and onward with great success in 2011.

Nigel, please move this to the Forum News Thread. Thanks.

Yes, Thank you Nigel.....ditto Scott...!!

Hi Manuel, congratulations (in advance) on your soon to be arriving Tyros 4 ! I'm really enjoying the HTC Droid Incredible. Thanks for the great tips you shared with me about using it. Looking forward to reading and posting on Synthzone with it while on the road.

I'm not really sure how it will finally look when it becomes UBB Threads .... we will see when it happens I guess.

Nigel, wow! reminds me of how it feels 'right before' going on stage on 'opening night'! Both excitement & anxiety at the same time! I'm keeping my fingers crossed it will all go smoothly. Good luck!

lol Scott ... it's been so many years for us both now. It sure is an exciting change. Hey it's good to keep things interesting.

Just taking my first look at the new format. Superb job, Nigel!

I haven't had time to look at the colors settings for this forum yet but it will come. And you will be happy to know that while I still allow editing I have now applied a 4 hour delay before anyone is allowed to edit their posts. Also you can now upload an 80x80 avatar image to use.

Scott,

You must be seeing something that I'm not. The color on my screen is dark gray background with light gray letters. Nothing like what the signature colors were a few days ago.

Gary

No Gary Scott posted that when the interim forum was up that did have the same colors. That changed with this version. I'll work on it

Very nice. A couple of comments, although I know it's still a work in progress.

1. Probably just my old eyes but the black/white combo in the quick reply box is very difficult to read (as you're typeing). Perhaps another color combo would help.

2. Would it be possible to increase the number of posts per page or virtual page length. It's easier to scrool down than to turn pages.

3. Work on the 'Donate' box next. I'm sure there are many, including myself, that would like to help support this forum financially (provided you do the color change in the 'quick reply' box ).

Congrats and a big 'Thank you' for what seems so far like a pretty seamless transition of the 'best little 'fora'house' on the net .

chas

Very Nice Upgrade.
Looking forward to many more years of SynthZoning!!!

I Love It.

Great Job Nigel!!

I am still finding my way around things myself at the moment. I will try to get the colors back to what they were. But you can change the color scheme in the drop down menu at the bottom of the page if the default is hard for you to read.

I like it, and the colors too. Looks modern.
DonM

Nice work Nigel, now the change is really visible.

Keep on the good work!

Cheers
GJ

I am playing around with colors at the moment. If you select the UUBBThreads-sz from the drop down menu at the bottom of the page to be your color scheme you will see it is moving toward the colors we used to have. But you can choose the color scheme that best suits you now so play around with it.

I have also fixed the upload avatar feature so if you had tried to do that but it didn't work give it another try.

Looks like upload avatar still don't work, tried both 79x79 png, jpg and gif format.
But no big deal, forum works anyway


Works when change image size down to 78x78 pixels. Looks like thats the limit?

Thanks for the color changes Nigel--now I can read everything just fine.

Gary

Very cool look, thanks Nigel.

Thanks for this wonderful upgrade, it will be awesome! As for colors... I am pretty sure that usability studies have proven that the vast majority of viewers do not like light text on a dark background for something that they are going to be reading alot... that in the long-term, their eyes tire of such... that black text on white background is the most preferred color scheme. (If it's a short page and something you won't view a lot, not that big of a problem.) Now, whatever you had in the past did work for me. But, I, for one, do not care for this light text on dark background.

Thanks again! Contemporary features that we get used to with other software... helps!

Bill, go to My Stuff (at the top), select edit preferences, then select 'ubb_stock' as 'your preferred style sheet'...

Oh, and don't forget to hit 'Submit' at the bottom!

Nigel,

Everything looks wonderful except the dark grey print on the dark green backbround is difficult to see.

Love the new Synthbbs Nigel GREAT JOB!

Kewl look! Nice new features too! Thanks so much Nigel!

Randy

Thanks, I got the dark print on light background now!

Nigel... one of the most aggravating things about the old forum was that when you clicked on a thread, it would not remember what you had read and it would automatically take you to the first post. Which you may have read a long time ago... you don't need to read all of those posts over and over. I use another forum that uses the same software as this and when he did an upgrade (over a year ago), it then remembered and took you to the new posts. Can you configure this as such? (With other software that I see on other forums, there is an icon near the thread title that you can click on to take you to the first unread posts... software such as vBulletin.)

Or have I missed some way to do this on my end?

@Nigel : thumbs up

Finally the website is ready for the new decenium... I like it, it looks good and its colors are different enough from all those other forums to warrant its own identity.

Nigel you Da Man! Thank you for your great efforts!!

Love the colors reminiscent of the old

Good Luck

Hi

Look great.

Best wishes
Jørgen

Nigel ... to say "THANK YOU" seems insignificant ... we cannot THANK YOU enough ...
So good to see S-Z back 'on the air' ...

I agree with chas about the pages being longer, and with Bill (Semi Live) about starting at our own most recently read reply ... Also, I would like to see the print a little larger for these tired old eyes ... guess I will have to try to fool around with that? ...

But "I LOVE THIS PLACE!!!"

lets try to keep things 'nice and friendly' at least for a few hours ...
t.

I dunno if Nigel changed something or what, but I think it just opened up to the new posts in the thread for me. So, maybe he got that implemented.

Nigel....you have yourself listed as a member under your pic?.....shouldn't be Administrator, or?....

Hi Nigel,
new forum looks brilliant.

Really enjoying the forum's new look and enhancements. I'm enjoying the new "ubbthread-dark" style option, and being able to match people's name to a face now.

Nigel:

Congrats, looks great to me (MORE POSTS PER PAGE WOULD BE NICE)

A winner.

Poz, you can enter the number of posts you want to appear on each page:

My Stuff > Edit Preferences > Total posts to show on one page when viewing a post in flat mode: (default is 10 or type in another number)

or simply click on "ALL" directly beneath the thread "TOPIC Title" to view all replies on ONE page. For long threads, you'll of course need to 'scroll down' to view all replies.

Nigel,
Love the new look and it's really nice to see your picture!

Thanks Found it.

Thanks Scott for the welcome back, we have now moved to new era within the forum,thanks to Nigel and his commitment
Therefore I look to the Forums future success with renewed optimism.

Gilbert.

Nigel

the new look is SWEET....thnks

Glad you like it. I ended up deciding to use the Black and Gold color scheme as the default because I like it a lot. But you can change it using the drop down menu at the bottom of the page.

Me too

nice layout thx Nigel !! and congrats..

nice layout !! congrats Nigel !

I Love the new forum format ...now that I'm used to it works great...Gary change the color view on the bottom tab,
I like the Kiniro one.

Looks great