The Energon Pub

I don't like it all that much. The format is ok, but I'm not a huge fan of the color scheme. Also, at least for me, none of the bottom screen buttons work. I'm sure it will grow on me eventually, but I am not a fan of the new design.

I came back on the computer this morning to update a post on the forum - only to discover that now it is not just the planet gif but the entire footer link bar floating up and down. I'm going to try IE7 to see if it will clear up...

a most excellent site redesign

Great job!!!!!!

Dragonslayer wrote:But it's so...purple and...Decepticon-y

Seriously, nice job, Ryan!

Decepticons forever.

Seibertron wrote:I *think* I fixed the logo in the footer. I'm in Firefox right now and IE7 and all looks good. The biggest problem seems to be on the forums for some reason (again, I'm assuming because of the undefined heights in the images in our sigs and such), but for the time being all seems well. If you are continuing to experience this problem, please click CTRL + F5 to force a refresh in your browser (Windows/Apple button in Safari plus F5).

Not quite. Sorry.

Just a few minutes ago the WHOLE FOOTER was floating in the middle of the page above the last sig in a topic. When I went back to take a screenshot it was fixed.

I think that's why none of the bottom buttons work for me. I'll have to check my home computer, which has IE7, and see if that changes anything

I very much dislike it, I'm afraid- I think it looks tacky and unprofessional. Like a site from the 90s when colouring everything black was deemed 'cool'.

Still, it's here to stay. Guess I'll just have to get used to it. ^^

muswp1 wrote:I think that's why none of the bottom buttons work for me. I'll have to check my home computer, which has IE7, and see if that changes anything

This problem should be fixed.

Dark Specter wrote:It does look rather stylish in FireFox
Once the transparency issue is resolved, it will look just as pleasent in Internet Explorer

The transparency issue will not be resolved in IE6. The site works in IE7, Safari and Firefox. IE6 doesn't support transparent PNG images, which the newer browsers do support. I tried several different "fixes" for IE6 during the past week but none of them worked properly and/or they crashed the browser. I felt it was more important for people to view the information on the site, which they can do on IE6, even if their browser doesn't render the images properly.

The load times on the site are insanely slow for a lot of people.

Jesus Prime is having issues with HMW even loading.

It's just this site though, everyone has tried the ctrl F5 thing and it's just as slow.

Nemesis Prime wrote:i love it
although it is still glitchy
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v667/ ... bError.jpg
and none of the transparentcies are working with IE
In IE


In FF


may i sugjest a fix

// Correctly handle PNG transparency in Win IE 5.5 or higher.
// http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola. Updated 02-March-2004

function correctPNG()
{
for(var i=0; i"
img.outerHTML = strNewHTML
i = i-1
}
}
}
window.attachEvent("onload", correctPNG);

I'll try this fix tonight when I get home. I uninstalled IE7 on my home PC yesterday while I was trying to debug this problem. I'll take another shot with this code that you supplied above. Thank you, by the way.

Venomous Prime wrote:The load times on the site are insanely slow for a lot of people.

Jesus Prime is having issues with HMW even loading.

It's just this site though, everyone has tried the ctrl F5 thing and it's just as slow.

The site has been getting hammered with traffic during the past couple of days. We would be having the same problems regardless of the design. If anything, the new design has probably brought in more traffic ... but the slowness has nothing to do with the redesign. The only thing that is different, really, are the graphics.

I've been keeping an eye on the server's load times during the past 24 hours to see if I need to reboot it. I did once yesterday but I haven't felt the need to do it today ... it's slow, but it's still loading. It's when it stops loading that I reboot.

Edit: Just to further elaborate on things I've been doing behind the scenes to help with the server speed issue, I wrote a script yesterday that caches the homepage once per minute. The header and footer of the homepage are still dynamic but the content of the homepage caches once per minute. The homepage has some pretty complex queries on it and touches a lot of the major highly used tables in the database so it was causing a lot of problems with the server's load time. After I cached the homepage, I noticed that the server cooled off quite a bit.

not sure if like the color

Carnosaur wrote:not sure if like the color

It blends with your signature though

Seibertron wrote:

Nemesis Prime wrote:i love it
although it is still glitchy
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v667/ ... bError.jpg
and none of the transparentcies are working with IE
In IE


In FF


may i sugjest a fix

// Correctly handle PNG transparency in Win IE 5.5 or higher.
// http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola. Updated 02-March-2004

function correctPNG()
{
for(var i=0; i"
img.outerHTML = strNewHTML
i = i-1
}
}
}
window.attachEvent("onload", correctPNG);

I'll try this fix tonight when I get home. I uninstalled IE7 on my home PC yesterday while I was trying to debug this problem. I'll take another shot with this code that you supplied above. Thank you, by the way.

you are most welcome. I know it can be infuriating(sp) when simple things like transparencies take in one browser and not the other ...
best way to use the code, is to host it as a .js file (with out the ) .. then place the file code with in your board ....ie

i also have a phpBB board, i place my code within the 'Site Description' table with in my ACP


if you do not have a ACP mod installed, then any part in between the html tags.

hope this helps

nem

GREAT DESIGN!!!

Ryan you've done it again!!! Congrats!!!

Seibertron wrote:

Dark Specter wrote:It does look rather stylish in FireFox
Once the transparency issue is resolved, it will look just as pleasent in Internet Explorer

The transparency issue will not be resolved in IE6. The site works in IE7, Safari and Firefox. IE6 doesn't support transparent PNG images, which the newer browsers do support. I tried several different "fixes" for IE6 during the past week but none of them worked properly and/or they crashed the browser. I felt it was more important for people to view the information on the site, which they can do on IE6, even if their browser doesn't render the images properly.

Makes perfect sense to me. Functionality should always go ahead of aesthetics.

WOW, this was a great suprize when I logged in, Keep Up the Great Work!

Realy man, This is awesome all the way around, a very nice paint job for my online home!

I must say it is sexy especially those drop downs at the top. Can't wait for Transtopia either
Any plans for updating the messageboard?
It's definitely loading faster now by the way.
Thanks Ryan and of course Starscream!

Great job Ryan. This is the top. Love the color and everything looks sharp and crisp. Lots of tweeking too. Some nice touches. Pull down menues. (Gee I hope those haven't been there before ) In summary

LOVE IT

In IE7, everything looks a lot better than it did in IE6 at work.

Great update Ryan! But we need the Autobot version! Can't let these Decepticreeps think they can run the show!

Nemesis Prime wrote:

Seibertron wrote:

Nemesis Prime wrote:i love it
although it is still glitchy
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v667/ ... bError.jpg
and none of the transparentcies are working with IE
In IE


In FF


may i sugjest a fix

// Correctly handle PNG transparency in Win IE 5.5 or higher.
// http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola. Updated 02-March-2004

function correctPNG()
{
for(var i=0; i"
img.outerHTML = strNewHTML
i = i-1
}
}
}
window.attachEvent("onload", correctPNG);

I'll try this fix tonight when I get home. I uninstalled IE7 on my home PC yesterday while I was trying to debug this problem. I'll take another shot with this code that you supplied above. Thank you, by the way.

you are most welcome. I know it can be infuriating(sp) when simple things like transparencies take in one browser and not the other ...
best way to use the code, is to host it as a .js file (with out the ) .. then place the file code with in your board ....ie

i also have a phpBB board, i place my code within the 'Site Description' table with in my ACP


if you do not have a ACP mod installed, then any part in between the html tags.

hope this helps

nem

Unfortunately, the script you posted has a Javascript error. I checked it on your site as well and the error is there. I'll keep looking for a script that will help (or if you guys can provide me with a link to a site that has one that's working that doesn't crash your IE6 browsers and resolves the PNG image problem).

Seibertron wrote:Unfortunately, the script you posted has a Javascript error. I checked it on your site as well and the error is there. I'll keep looking for a script that will help (or if you guys can provide me with a link to a site that has one that's working that doesn't crash your IE6 browsers and resolves the PNG image problem).

so that's were that error was comming up o.O
although i never had it crash my browser .. give a few to mod the script to adjust the error and then all should be fine ..

nem