For a balanced look at the bottom of the page, either the "Buffistas Home | FAQ | etc" line should be aligned with the posts, or the posting box should move back to the left.
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Noumenon - Oct 30, 2002 11:29:15 am PST #1067 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Michele T. - Oct 30, 2002 11:34:42 am PST #1068 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Jon, how about
"To post in
Threadname Verylong Wittyclever,
compose your text in the box below, then click "Post Message."
Jon B. - Oct 30, 2002 11:53:39 am PST #1069 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Michele - If you're putting in a hard line-break after the thread title, I think it can look ugly. It's simple, using a table, to make the text have the same width as the posting box. Then, the text will always break in the appropriate place, although the thread title might wrap to the second line. I still think that would look better. What do you think?
Rebecca Lizard - Oct 30, 2002 11:57:06 am PST #1070 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I don't think I'd like a *centered* posting box. I don't like the idea that if I resized my window it could be in a different place, sideways-wise. That seems eerie and threatening for silly reasons I can't articulate.
Noumenon - Oct 30, 2002 11:59:54 am PST #1071 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
I may not support the line break, but the word-trimming Michele suggests is fine.
Jon B. - Oct 30, 2002 12:07:56 pm PST #1072 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The buffistas domain names are registered with domaindirect.com, right? What plan are we using for the .com and .net addresses? The Personal Identity Account?
Michele T. - Oct 30, 2002 12:40:24 pm PST #1073 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Jon, I was suggesting the line break to bucket the information:
Line 1: where you are
Line 2: what to do.
But aesthetically, making it the same size as the box would probably be nicer, especially since the thread name length will vary enough that it's hard to set a specification.
§ ita § - Oct 30, 2002 1:37:17 pm PST #1074 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
FYI:
Top 15 of 554 Total User Agents (Oct)
# Hits User Agent
1 169660 8.17% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)
2 147385 7.10% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
3 122756 5.91% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 2000) Opera 6.05
4 112449 5.41% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
5 103834 5.00% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
6 93702 4.51% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
7 67841 3.27% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
8 56238 2.71% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
9 50735 2.44% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461)
10 42643 2.05% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
11 41024 1.98% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/2002072
12 40915 1.97% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)
13 40346 1.94% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
14 35936 1.73% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
15 31308 1.51% Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; OSF1 V4.0 alpha)
DXMachina - Oct 30, 2002 1:41:50 pm PST #1075 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
ita, are those individual users, or just totals for folks using the exact same browser/OS combination?
Jesse - Oct 30, 2002 2:15:51 pm PST #1076 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The buffistas domain names are registered with domaindirect.com, right? What plan are we using for the .com and .net addresses? The Personal Identity Account?
I registered .com and .net, but I'm afraid I don't know what you mean.