New Format

[drillfix]

Hi everyone

Thanks for the comments. Obviously this is still a work in progress, we'll get the site settled in - then we can work on optimising the layout, this current layout is due to the upgrade but we can keep tweaking it.
Drillfix, I'll send your comments through to the web developer. Thanks for taking the time to let us know, we're working on making the site faster this morning.

Keep posting your comments, feedback is good.

Cheers.

Vicky, your a champion, thanks for taking the time to address the "wide" communities needs.

A little extra feedback: Fonts, Its good the fonts are now bigger though need to get away from the Tahoma or which ever one you have. Maybe a Bold Arial or something, but the current ones are a bit too wide"ish~!

For those who say get over it, bare in mind, some of us here contribute as much as we can to help others and this site. We are no complainers for the sake of it. There are folks here that also need to feel settled after being here for years and even more years than what I have been here.

I look forward to the gradual work in progress and no doubt the site will be fine tuned greatly for performance and Eye Candy.

Again, to have theme's for users to choose would be a bonus.

Good work to the Dev people and Vicky along with the mods.
Cheers

[trackers]

Hey Vicky,

Loving the new layout as a whole.. These things always take some time to get used to.. The Web 2.0 color scheme is all good, but the contrasts between the colors could be a bit greater I think as it starts to blur a bit (darker headings maybe, as bull.. suggests?)

One other thing.. I personally keep quite a few tabs open so its nice to know which one is sharetrader; that appears to be gone now, with the page title just the name of the sub-forum. Can be hard to work out at a glance; maybe it could just have sharetrader at the end (i.e ASX - Sharetrader)?

[bermuda]

Thanks everyone for your feedback. Trader_Tech has been working hard behind the scenes on the site speed and improving our search function; not to mention the most recent hacking event.

Appreciate the comments on the default colours; we'll try and get the contrast a bit more user friendly this afternoon, so we appreciate your patience with this!

Thanks Vicky,
Hopefully you can get the colours/differentiation sorted. As for Headings...have at look at Sharescene.com.au. Very clear and concise and easy on the eye.

[whirly]

aAARGH... i cant work it. Seems to me search only works on posts since the new format. I also cant show "users posts" or threads started by me or anyone else.

[drillfix]

I love the new format - very crisp and clear. Don't let the Luddites rule!
I like perfume too...

Everybody is rightfully entitled to their opinion there Cannibal and that includes you I guess. Question, what in the xx is a Luddites?



Back to business, and questions to the Webmaster.


For reference here is my trace and pings from Australia:

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>ping sharetrader.co.nz

Pinging sharetrader.co.nz [60.234.72.160] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 60.234.72.160: bytes=32 time=71ms TTL=53
Reply from 60.234.72.160: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=53
Reply from 60.234.72.160: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=53
Reply from 60.234.72.160: bytes=32 time=68ms TTL=53

Ping statistics for 60.234.72.160:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 68ms, Maximum = 71ms, Average = 69ms

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tracert sharetrader.co.nz

Tracing route to sharetrader.co.nz [60.234.72.160]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms xxxx
2 30 ms 29 ms 32 ms xxxx
3 29 ms 29 ms 28 ms xxxx
4 31 ms 30 ms 29 ms VLAN314.14vrc76f06.optus.net.au [203.202.78.145]
5 103 ms 71 ms 29 ms 10.251.42.2
6 30 ms 29 ms 30 ms GigabitEthernet2-3.cha36.Brisbane.telstra.net [139.130.35.17]
7 34 ms 30 ms 30 ms TenGigE0-8-0-2.cha-core4.Brisbane.telstra.net [203.50.51.1]
8 47 ms 45 ms 46 ms Pos0-4-1-0.ken-core4.Sydney.telstra.net [203.50.6.205]
9 46 ms 46 ms 46 ms TenGigabitEthernet8-1.pit1.Sydney.telstra.net [203.50.20.39]
10 46 ms 65 ms 46 ms pacnet.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.55.26]
11 46 ms 45 ms 46 ms gi0-1-3.cr4.syd1.asianetcom.net [202.147.40.221]
12 70 ms 69 ms 72 ms so-0-0-0-0.gw4.akl1.asianetcom.net [202.147.55.253]
13 67 ms 68 ms 68 ms gi13-2.gw1.akl1.asianetcom.net [202.147.55.209]
14 70 ms 70 ms 70 ms ORC-0014.GW1.AKL1.asianetcom.net [203.192.167.34]
15 72 ms 69 ms 71 ms 121.98.9.141
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 72 ms 71 ms 70 ms tpl7.tarawera.co.nz [60.234.72.160]

Trace complete.

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Still quite a few hops form the Land of Oz, I think Dallas was not that many previously but had higher pings.

Now have you guys got Zend Optimizer switched on, there is something still lagging, the site is becoming faster than previous when it was in hosted in "The Planet", but something is still up, this should be faster comparably from the move.

Back to the design, I guess its something we need to get used to, but all forums should have SKINS so the user can choose his/her theme, be it dark, darker, light, ligher, Bright, Grey, White.

On that note, some Font/Icon balance would be much appreciated and thanks making the move, but get your Zend checked out will ya.

Cheers~!

[STRAT]

what in the xx is a Luddites?




Cheers~!

Really really old people

[COLIN]

Really really old people

Like, those over 40!

And why does my wife keep changing the furniture around!

[fungus pudding]

Like, those over 40!

And why does my wife keep changing the furniture around!

Because she is a woman. Next time - marry a man.

[whirly]

I think Ill get used to it but being an old luddite myself I will need retraining. I have always used search function by entering ticker i.e RDR and then viewing by posts. Today I enter tickers and "no results found" is all I get. I even searched "PRC" same result. Can someone help me here.

[STRAT]

Like, those over 40!

And why does my wife keep changing the furniture around!

You and me both. Mind you Colin I feel over 80 today.

PS The wife keeps moving the furniture because you let her