New ausfish homepage

[Feral]

Certainly made me pause when I logged in, thought I had accidentally hit the yellow cabs bookmark
But it works, that is all I need !

[Crunchy]

Matches my new shirt & cap by some coincidence

[Noelm]

I can tell it like it is.

So, the forum runs on software not owned by Ausfish. As with all software, you have to upgrade or get left behind. Get left behind and you have no support and no upgrade path.

When you upgrade, you get new upgraded interface that the software company thinks that everyone wants. In reality, the software companies are usually just following the style guidelines offered by larger OS manufacturers, which are typically driven by the younger generations and future predictions of human interaction with software.

Unfortunately, I have been down this path myself, as a computer support manager for a local University, you just can't imagine the flack we cop when (say) Microsoft "upgrades" something, and even though it might work the same, it looks different, and people don't like that, we get sort of comfortable with something, and if it changes, it's like the end of the world, don't even ask how it went when we went to Windows 8.......Jesus, that was hard work, we had to run training groups, just so people could have their hand held for a while! Sometimes, an "upgrade" might seem like a downgrade, or a side grade at best.

[Ausfish]

Yup, it's ghastly,lol
The topics down the left and the menu on the right is annoying too.

Not sure what you are referring to here.

here is a screen shot of what you should be seeing. Is this different to what you are seeing?

ausfishhome.jpg

[Ausfish]

yer I sorta like it too, id like to see it in a few different colours but I can live with the layout...

Will be a few colour options available soon. Just need to test out this template fully first.

Hope to have the other colours available in a day or two. Maybe a Maroon version for around that time of year :-)

[Ausfish]

Well the 5% of us that are colourblind find it very vague and grey looking.......at least the old blue was blue.

More colour options coming soon

[Volvo]

Will be a few colour options available soon. Just need to test out this template fully first.

Hope to have the other colours available in a day or two. Maybe a Maroon version for around that time of year :-)

Looking forward to the other colour options and yes that is what we were talking about ..

[Aussie123]

Gidday Steve
I was referring to the menu items at the top right of the page.
On wide screens like I use they are a bit of a pain being located on the right side.It would be good if they were back on the left side where they were originally but I guess people will get used to them where they are now.
Very impressed with the layout and speed otherwises,it's a massive improvement.
ausfish menu.jpg

[Ausfish]

Some colour options have been added

Go to the bottom left of any page and there is a dropdown, select the colour you prefer there.

ausfishcolours.png

More to come :-)

[Shawn 66]

Thought I would try the red . Looks too much like maroon . Bloody canetoads are everywhere.
Shawn

[Greg P]

Its bloody flying on Firefox - like the upgrade.

[Ausfish]

Mobile template has now been installed.

Have checked it on Android and IPhone. But only one phone of each. So please report any issues you find.

When opening the forum page an your phones browser you should see the new mobile layout.

You can still select the full version by clicking on the "Full Site" link at the bottom of the page.

[Volvo]

Yeah Blue will do fer me ..

[SkullJug]

I love the new look!

[gunna]

I quite like the new look.