Question Site design

its not a huge issue... but it is one of the ones that doesnt want to stay fixed... patches revert it to the joomla default. i've long since figured out what I did wrong when I first set up the site ... but i can't fix it without starting from scratch, and I'm not 100% sure I can do that without losing data/// members, forums or stories.

i created the old crystal hall icon. no one has spcifically created one to match the new site

Sounds like you're doing it the hard way.

Once you click on the : READ STORIES menu button in the upper right of the screen, look in the left sidebar for another menu below your login panel.

Find and click the button for : ORIGINAL TIMELINE

This will bring up a table with ALL the Gen 1 timeline stories. They default to being listed with the most recent story at the top of the list (because for the up-to-date reader, only the newest content needs priority). Find the column for published dates... and click on the words PUBLISHED DATE. This will reverse the table order so the OLDEST stories are at that top of the list, I personally also like to go to the pull down option to the upper right of the table that defaults to showing 30 stories per page and turn this to 100. There are around 600 stories, so at 100 per... there's only about six pages on that table.

If you're reading Gen 2 stories instead of original timeline... just select Gen 2 in that left sidebar menu instead of Original Timeline. If you want Library stories, there's a menu option for that too.

slapshots wrote: I have bad eye site and its getting worse this not quite black words on a cream backround hurts my eyes any chance of getting a dark option so i can actually read the stories again

There are a couple key things that you can do to adjust YOUR viewing of the site without requiring a complete redesign of the site template (which, I'm sorry to say, is not something I'm willing to do again any time soon - this particular set up colors is the only one I've tried that doesn't get lots of negative feedback about being too bright, too dark, too small, too little contrast, and so on... the last time I did a test run of a different palette/design, the feedback was so loud that I didn't even leave the new changes up for 24 hrs before reverting them).

But for your own personal comfort, try these options:

1. If you are using a high resolution monitor, your default font size might simply be too low for your eyesight. The site IS designed for a 1900 pixel wide display, and that generates a decent size font on a larger monitor... but if you have a small monitor doing 1900 wide, your font might be pretty small. You can zoom in and out on your display in browsers using Ctr+, Ctr-, and Ctr0 (larger, smaller, reset).

2. If you are reading in the wee hours, make sure your monitor is in the right palette / contrast setting for your eyes. Mine automatically shifts to a 'warmer' palette after a certain hour because 'blue' light isn't as restful. But this shift darkens the light beige to a warmer brown tone and reduces contrast between background and text.

3. Make sure your colors and contrast on your monitor are set right and if you are having problems with contrast between this background and text (which are actually very high contrast for something that isn't black/white and white visual displays are very problematic for people spending much time in front of them). Boost your contrast a little if you need to.

4. If none of these work, you always have the option to read stories outside of the browser. If you look at the upper right corner of a given story for the 'gear' icon, then click on it, you will get a menu with an option for "Print" ... this opens a separate window with a page that is only the story and its header, for use in printing. More importantly, this brings up a simplified version of the story that you can copy paste into a word/openoffice document and do whatever you want to background and text coloring.

5. Alternately, you can visit the plugin site for your preferred browser and install something that will override site local templates with your preferred color palette and font. Certain browsers allow some of this by default, if you look into their settings.