Page view problems

You need to reset the screen resolution to something like 1024x768. This is the only forum i have problems with using 800x600.

Perhaps the moderators are not interested.

I too have the same difficulties as you. Changing it would be easy as the other poster has said. I will not do this as Exploroz is only one site that I visit out of quite a few. I'm not going to bother to change my settings every time I visit - I will have to just scroll across I guess.

Interesting though - is that I never scroll as far as the adverts on the right which surely the site owners would like all to view. It's hard enough viewing the forum let alone scrolling even further to few the ads.

Hi all I got the same prob as you guys. I have been away from the forum for a while and was wondering what had happened. I also only scroll across enough to read the post, but it is very annoying having to centralise the page after every 'click'.
Regards Ken.

Patrick,

We answer all emails within 24 hours and I have looked for emails from yourself and cannot find any. We have had many enquires on this topic and there are many things being worked on in this regard. There is no reason you would not have been replied to as we have sent several emails as replies to this issue.

Firstly you can simply change the screen resolution to 1024x768 this became the defacto Internet standard about 18 months ago and most sites have migrated to this setting. Simply go Start - Control panel - Display - then select Settings. Once you are on this screen move the slider control from 800x600 to 1024x768 this will fix the size of the screen not only for ExplorOz but a vast majority of other sites that you most likely visit. Coupled with the font size adjuster tool we just installed you should find the abilty to increase the font and the higher resolution will only improve your gereral internet experience.

Secondly, I am looking to see if I can support an 800x600 fall back - this appears possible however I have not been able to dedicate enought time to test it and write the updated support for this size. Most of the feedback we have seen indicates a problem with the amount of blank space in the LHS and RHS margins - ie: screen resolution of higher than 1024x768 in fact we have had feedback from people using 1920x1024 (widescreen format) so it is very difficult to find a happy medium. However I am working on it.

I do take offensive that we have not responded to emailed enquires as this would seriously breech the terms of service we have in place with out staff in the office, and my investigations of the emails logs do not support this. So please email me directly any comments about the process and any lack of response as reading it in the forum ticks me off.

My comments are given for information only:-

One of the PC's that I use is a Notebook with a screen resolution of 1680 x 1050 (Widescreen format) and this does not allow the best use of the new ExplorOz formatting. There is much "wasted whitespace" on either side of the screen.

Also on the Widescreen format, no separation line appears between the "Home" and "Forum" buttons at the top of the screen.

However, the more important "loss" from the old format is in the lack of word wrapping when the "full screen mode" is reduced. Now, if the display is reduced at all, you need to scroll across via the sliders which is a bummer.

All in all though, I can live with it.