The most obvious one is in the layout and site navigation. The menu in the left frame was getting too complicated as I added more features, and it was going to run into problems for users who have their resolution at 800 x 600.
I've ditched the left frame altogether, now, and I narrowed the top frame. For the site navigation, I've gone back to using the CoolJSMenu dynamic dropdown menu at the top of each page. The organization should be pretty self explanatory. I hope you'll like the change.
![[whoo]](https://threestooges.net/forums/Smileys/default/whoo.gif "Whoo")
I've also added a Stooge Quotes page, in the Stooge Info menu, after jrvass asked about one. I will be adding in several more features over the next few weeks.
![[artist]](https://threestooges.net/forums/Smileys/default/mixed-smiley-040.gif "Artist")
It seems like you're getting into a "fine tuning" mode at this point, Rob, since the site was already looking really good, in my estimation. I kind of liked the left-side menu (maybe because I'm left-handed), but the new home page design is definitely cleaner. That is, on my monitor at work, which is newer and of higher resolution than the one I have at home (and I can't make a comparison right now, since my PC is still in the shop).
One suggestion: since the new, horizontal menu doesn't extend all the way to the right side of the screen, how about adding a tab for the "Special Forums," i.e., Music That Sucks and (ahem ahem), Pilsner's Picks, Swap Meet, and Dunrobin's Rants? I'm sure they'd all get more hits if they had more direct access like that.
Left-handed, eh? I
knew there was a reason why I liked ya! We "sinister" types have got to stick together. ("If the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handed people are in their right minds.")
You're right that these changes were mainly tweaks, but that left menu was starting to bug me. At 800 x 600, the menu would get too long if I added any more lines, and it looked tacky if I let the frame use scrollbars. Also, I noticed that at 800 x 600 several pages would show horizontal scrollbars in the main frame, since they were a little too wide for the space that was left, when the menu frame was there. My only real alternative, if I kept the left frame, was to keep appending new links on to the existing menu links where there was room, and that was already getting clumsy and non-intuitive. Since I'm planning on adding several more features, something had to give, and this dynamic menu makes it much easier for me to add new menu items.
The top frame bothered me too. It looked good, but it took up a little too much browser space. I didn't bother to modify the images or anything, though; I just narrowed the frame size so it ends just below the quote line. (I had tried putting the site menu in the top frame, but the drop down menus weren't visible, since they opened below the botoom of the frame.)
I took your suggestion and added menu items for all of the message boards, just just the Special Forums. They were in my first version of the menu, but I accidentally overworte that one, and hadn't bothered to add them in again. But you were right, and it does make since to have them so they're back now.
And thanks for the compliments, Stoop and Loa! I'm glad you like the changes.
Super Service!
