I like the new menu on top!

Posted by: SE_Sport_Driver

I like the new menu on top! - 09/05/2002 09:46

Just wanted to say that we notice the little touches you add from time to time!
Posted by: tfabris

Re: I like the new menu on top! - 09/05/2002 09:59

Thanks, was just messing with that this morning. All I did was reformat it a bit and add Brian's buttonhack site. The main thing is that I like to view the BBS in a fairly narrow window, and it was irritating me that the quicklinks line would wrap all the time. So I changed it to two lines, carefully reformatted it, and changed some points of wording so that the two lines would be equal.

Also, I changed the "Latest Software" link so that we don't have to edit it every time a new piece of software comes out, and I updated the name of the other BBS. Since I finally got around to editing the masthead graphic to say "Central".
Posted by: SE_Sport_Driver

Re: I like the new menu on top! - 09/05/2002 10:06

Tony, I noticed clicking on the "Central" link opens a new windown now.. but coming back to the empeg BBS doesn't... is this by design?
Posted by: tfabris

Re: I like the new menu on top! - 09/05/2002 10:10

Woops. Hadn't edited the links on the other site.
Posted by: thenominous

Re: I like the new menu on top! - 09/05/2002 11:36

If you click to open say the hijack site, then you click the central site, the central one will open in the window which was displaying hijack.
Could / would you change that so eachlink will open its own new window?
Thats just the way I browse with LOTS of windows open at once...
Posted by: tfabris

Re: I like the new menu on top! - 09/05/2002 11:40

That's actually how I intended for it to work. I do the same thing.

I deliberately changed the links to "target=_new" in the header, but for some reason or other, the stylesheet changes it so that it doesn't work. I don't know why. I'll look into it.
Posted by: tfabris

Re: I like the new menu on top! - 09/05/2002 11:42

Yeah, I don't get it... "target=_new" is there in the HTML and for some reason it's not getting honored....
Posted by: tfabris

Re: I like the new menu on top! - 09/05/2002 11:45

Seems to work better with target=_blank, so I'll leave it like that for a while.
Posted by: SE_Sport_Driver

Re: I like the new menu on top! - 09/05/2002 11:48

Too bad there isn't a "Open in Current Window" right-click option in IE to force against new windows...
Posted by: tfabris

Re: I like the new menu on top! - 09/05/2002 11:50

There is. Drag the link up to the Address bar. That's how I do it anyway. Not that much more work than just a click.

If the "new window" thing is bugging too many people, then I'll change it back.

Note that almost every other link on the BBS is automatically a new window (not under my control, built into the code), even links to other posts, I was just trying to get it all working more consistently.
Posted by: thenominous

Re: I like the new menu on top! - 09/05/2002 11:50

thx!
Posted by: SE_Sport_Driver

Re: I like the new menu on top! - 09/05/2002 11:51

thanks for the windows tip! I'll be using that forever now!